Out of the box, the LE is relatively secure, but for production environments, follow these hardening steps:
The wins on raw port density and future-proofing with dual 10G uplinks. While the EdgeRouter 12 offers more total ports (12 vs 6), those ports are limited to 1 Gbps. For users pushing multiple 2.5 Gbps LAN segments, the LE is superior.
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