We are starting to see a need for 2Gbps or higher router throughput. The use case is higher-end fiber networks with 2Gbps presented on a 10Gbps port on the ONT, but with a need to offer cellular failover when the fiber is offline. The desire is to actually get full use of the higher speed fiber, while retaining the ability to fail over to cellular. At present none of the MAX line has router throughput over 1Gbps. Boosting speed and adding higher speed Ethernet ports on a few models would be helpful.
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The MAX MBX HD2 and the B310X both support 2.5Gbps of throughput, but the rest of the MAX range is limited to 1Gbps as you note.
I have high hopes for the next gen of routing platforms, we’re already seeing other vendors support 10Gbps + on low cost routers using the Qualcomm network processcors. I can’t imagine Peplink will be very far behind…
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Agree- not just higher routing throughput, but higher SDWAN throughput and higher interface speeds.
More devices with multigig copper ports and sfp+/sfp28 ports!
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We are working on that… some higher throughput and very serious network interfaces will be supported. Stay tuned!
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We’re more than a year from when I started this thread. And here we have new variants of the BR1 5G and BR2 5G, and the router throughput is 1Gbps.
One of the other responses in this thread mentioned two routers in the line that have 2.5Gbps throughput, but since those routers lack Ethernet ports that go beyond 1Gbps, they’re not interesting, either.
The use case that Peplink is missing is connectivity backup in the age of fiber to the home and office. 2Gbps bidirectional fiber is now common and affordable. Having cellular or Starlink backup to that fiber is something that is of interest. The router would need to be able to sustain the 2Gbps bidirectional service on both the Ethernet ports and router throughput when the fiber link is up.
We are looking at other vendors due to the lack of functionality in the Peplink line for this need.