Those millions of sub-100Mb network devices aren&#x27;t pushing Linux forward though. Sure, they&#x27;re using Linux, but they&#x27;re not the ones pushing it forward. It&#x27;s colo and datacenter use cases that are. A basic MySQL OLTP load with SSD&#x27;s and a modicum of compute power will easily saturate a 10gig NIC. It does start to die shortly after that due to network&#x2F;kernel stuff. I&#x27;d really like to get a lot more out of my existing hardware if i could.