THE PRICE U SEE IS THE MINIMUM PRICE. CCR1016 is an industrial grade super fast router with cutting edge 16 core CPU. If you need many millions of packets per second - Cloud Core Router is your best choice. The device is available with a 1U rackmount case (CCR1016-12G) or without the case as a board unit (CCR1016-12G-BU), has twelve Gigabit ethernet ports, a serial console cable and a USB port. The CCR1016-12G has two SODIMM slots, by default it is shipped with 2GB of RAM, but has no memory limit in RouterOS (will accept and utilize 16GB or more). 16 core networking CPU, 1.2GHz clock per core 12 Mbytes total on-chip cache State of the art TILE GX architecture 12x Gigabit ports, all directly connected to CPU 1U rackmount case option Color touchscreen LCD display Up to 1.5 mpps throughput in regular mode Up to 17.8 mpps throughput in fastpath mode (wire speed) Up to 12 Gbps throughput with common RouterOS configurations