Wheres the beef? Thunderbolt 3.0 router/switches.

    Could someone please make a cheap $200 Thunderbolt 3.0 router/switch?

    There has been much talk these days about the arrival of 10 gibit to the home network. While having a network that runs at 1,250 megabytes per second sounds impressive, it is ridiculous the sums companies want to charge to get these established. One would need to have appropriate cards on computers,  switches, cables, and routers as well. However, even the cheapest  10 GBE switch these daysthe Netgear ProSafe xs780will cost you $850.  Yes, you read correctly: eight hundred and fifty dollars. This is absurd, when one considers that getting a card for a computer system might also cost another $800, the benefits simply dont outweigh these ridiculous costs.

    Hence, the needs for a Thunderbolt 3.0 switch/router that can transfer speeds four times this rate, at some 5,000 megabytes per second, at a cost of only $300.

    This, and only this, will truly usher the era of home gigabit in the household. Never-mind those expensive MiMO routers that offer services which most devices can't even take advantage of at the moment. Most middle class homes today are multi-computer homes, with each member controlling their own computer and range of mobile devices.  A Thunderbolt 3.0 switch/router would completely eliminate any drag time of file transfers, and would likely set a standard for decades to come.  Locally centralized servers, or network attaches storage devices (NAS), could relay information to all members of the household, serving as backups, document repository, media server, music stereo and so forth with near-zero latency (little if any wait time).

    This is a no-brainer when you also consider the increasing use of SSD in all manner of devices, which allow computers to actually receive and send information at such rates. The Samsung 951 SSD PCIE based card or the more well known 950 Pro M.2 cards can deliver rates of up to 2,400 megabytes per second.  Even computers with regular SATA SSD, which move data at rates of some 500 MB/s would also benefit greatly from Thunderbolt router/switches.

    A Thunderbolt 3.0 switch/router would also obviously leapfrog the current generation of expensive 10 GBE switches, as they already make such devices obsolete. Why buy a costly switch that is already outdated the moment you walk into the store to buy one?

    Yet, what do I mean by Thunderbolt 3.0 router/switches? 

    There are many ways such a device could be designed, as Thunderbolt 3.0 can be used for direct attached storage connexions between computer and home devices.  However, what is envisioned here is strictly a router/switch device with firewall and NAT capability to insure home security.  While a DAS (direct attached storage) device would sound very promising, as all devices would be plug and play and ease of use, this would be its greatest source of concern given the near absence of security measures. The Thunderbolt connexion is a derivative of Apple's Firewire, which was originally meant only to context isolated peripheral devices to a computer: hard drives, web cameras, scanners.  Hence the absence of global connections made such security concerns moot themes, and were thus not built into such connections.  

    It is pretty obvious that any type of Thunderbolt 3.0 switches/routers would, by definition, require security measures given the speed at which they operate. Imagine, for example, a ransom-ware virus striking every device on your computer network in a fraction of a second; this would be an expensive to not only fix, and (should you chose not to pay the fee), to replace ones entire home networking structure. Ouch.  So, any Thunderbolt switch would have to have NAT / firewall / IPS-IDS implementation directly built into their system, otherwise it would represent more of a security liability (and hence a degradation of ones home network) than an improvement.

    All computers/devices connected to the Thunderbolt 3.0 router/switch would thus receive their own IP number, and would be treated in much the same manner as any router can treat the devices under it. These would receive NAT protection from the outside world, and connections between devices might also be controlled.  You might not allow your sons computer to reach your  own, but the local NAS on the network would be visible to everyone on the local LAN.   Rules could be established defining the divers privileges of each devices, as well as detect whether any one particular device has been compromised.

    What is most tempting, and needs to be emphasis, are the benefits accrued by the drastic increases in speed. Most home routers/switches operate a 1 megabit speeds, which is some 100 megabytes per second. Just imagine what a network with more than  50 times the speed could do!  Waiting times would be a thing of the past, and all family members (in theory) would become much more productive as a result.

    Where my Thunderbolt 3.0 router/switch?  Wheres the beef?