With the connected world growing, the network needs to grow even faster to support all this connectivity. High-performance, fast, sometimes fanless switching and routing are needed. The key question is: how to design a product that meets the current requirements of high CPU cycles, packet processing performance, speed and low-power? Is it possible to leverage the engineering investment in design and create different types of IoT connectivity products with minimum changes to the original design? To support this reality is exactly why the Layerscape SMB solutions were introduced to the market. The Layerscape family of System on Chips helps engineers solve these common design challenges.