While I’m super excited about the prospect of something that’s able to handle routing at wirespeed + likely a bunch of firewall, filter and QoS settings I’m also a little concerned about how the CPU loading will take place and if there will be any additional failsafes put in place to make this product as reliable as it needs to be. The router is suspected to be based of the TILE-Gx8036 processor, a 36 core beast built for networking applications. A redundant PSU version is also said to be planned for those requiring higher reliability given the high performance/throughput of the device. The release date is said to be sometime this summer however given previous releases the authors opinion is to take this with a grain of salt. All ports directly connected to CPU (We assuming this means no switch chips will be present).8 Million+ Packets Per Second on Standard-Path.15 Million+ Packets Per Second on Fast-Path.

New Future models will support 10Gig SFP+ configurations.

New 64bit processor – assuming this one.

36 core networking CPU (1.2Ghz per core).

Update : Tilera has made a press release confirming their processors will be used in the CCR-1036. Announced less than 24 hours ago at the Warsaw MUM, comes the first (and hopefully not the last) MikroTik shot at high end routing.

Mikrotik routeros x64