High Availability 2x100Gbps Enterprise Router Powered by Dual Marvell OCTEON 10 CN103

Not just double throughput — two independent forwarding domains

Two CN103 DPUs, each running AsterNOS-VPP independently. The result is 2 × 100 Gbps of hardware-accelerated L3 forwarding, 2 × 80 Gbps of stateful firewall, and 2 × 80 Gbps of inline IPSec — all in a single 1U chassis drawing under 200 W. Built for ISPs, carriers, and large-scale data center edge deployments where the ET3608 is not enough. On the ET3608, one DPU runs one AsterNOS-VPP instance. On the ET3616, each DPU runs its own independent AsterNOS-VPP instance with its own routing table, VRF structure, BGP sessions, IPSec tunnels, and firewall policy. The two instances do not share state. This is not a high-availability pair — it is two distinct routers in one chassis.
For a large ISP or data center operator, this means you can terminate two separate customer-facing network segments on one physical device, each with full hardware-accelerated forwarding, without any policy or performance bleed between them.

Full BGP stack on each DPU — 100 Gbps each, independently configured
Each AsterNOS-VPP instance carries its own full routing table. You can peer one instance to your upstream ISPs and the other to your customer-facing fabric — each with its own BGP policy, route maps, prefix filters, and VRF structure. Neither instance’s convergence event affects the other’s forwarding.

160 Gbps total firewall, 160 Gbps total IPSec — all hardware, both DPUs
Each DPU’s inline crypto engine runs independently. A 160 Gbps IPSec workload splits naturally across the two engines — or you can dedicate one DPU entirely to encrypted tunnel termination and the other to clear-text routing, with hardware-enforced separation between the two traffic planes.