Hardware Tiers

Real x86 hardware you can source today.

No proprietary silicon, no vendor lock-in. Every tier below runs the same NTPSense daemon — pick based on port count, throughput, and how many WAN links your site actually has.

Basic
Intermediate
Advanced
TIER 1 — BASIC

Home office & small branch

Single WAN, <15 users, fanless. Firewall + DHCP + WireGuard without the full Squid blocklist load.

STARTING FROM
$107
CPU
Intel N100 / N150 or Celeron — 4-core class, fanless-capable
RAM
4–8 GB
Storage
128 GB SSD/NVMe
Ports
4–6× Gigabit LAN
Form factor
Mini PC desktop, fanless
QOTOM — OFFICIAL FACTORY

Q10100G4, N3540/J1900 series

4–6× LAN, 1U rack option available
ALIEXPRESS

N100 barebone, 6× 2.5GbE i226-V

DDR5, NVMe slot, fanless chassis
TIER 2 — INTERMEDIATE

Branch office, 2 WAN links

Dedicated fiber primary + shared/NAT wireless backup. Full-feature: Squid, blocklists, Site Mesh VPN, dedicated-WAN failover preference.

STARTING FROM
$206
CPU
Atom C3758R (8-core/8-thread, QAT) or N305 (8-core, AVX2)
RAM
8–16 GB
Storage
256 GB NVMe
Ports
5× 2.5GbE + 4× SFP+ 10G
Form factor
Mini PC desktop or 1U rack
QOTOM — OFFICIAL FACTORY

Q20300S9, Atom C3758R (8-core, QAT)

5× 2.5GbE + 4× SFP+ 10G, up to 64GB ECC RAM
TOPTON

1U Rack, i3-N305/N150

2–4× 10G SFP+ + 4× i226-V 2.5G, enterprise-style chassis
TIER 3 — ADVANCED

HQ, 3+ WAN links, mesh coordinator

Runs Headscale + embedded DERP relay for 5–10+ branch sites, plus its own full local feature set. Sized for DERP relay headroom, not just steady-state load.

STARTING FROM
$206
CPU
Atom C3908 (16-core/16-thread, QAT) or Core i5-4300M class
RAM
16–32 GB, ECC-capable
Storage
512 GB – 1 TB NVMe
Ports
5× 2.5GbE + 4× SFP+ 10G, 8+ port for multi-WAN headroom
Form factor
1U rackmount, fan-cooled
QOTOM — OFFICIAL FACTORY

Q20300S9, Atom C3908 (16-core, QAT)

Same chassis as Q20352G9, top-bin CPU option
CWWK

CW-U87, Core i5-4300M

8× 2.5GbE + optional 2× 10GbE SFP+, 1U rack
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Beyond SMB

Enterprise and Telco — the path is charted, not hidden.

Enterprise: Xeon-D class hardware

Complete systems with IPMI/BMC out-of-band management, ECC RAM — hardware already sourceable, software roadmap (multi-tenancy, centralized management) in progress.

See Solutions →

Telco: NFV / carrier edge

Gap named honestly: no custom ASIC/NPU yet, DPDK path under evaluation. Quote-only hardware tier for volume deployments.

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