Edge routers that actually compress routing tables and throttle power can be a game‑changer, but they’re not a silver bullet. By shrinking the table size you free up SRAM, which is cheap in space but expensive in power, so you can shave off a lot of heat and idle consumption. The trick is balancing the compression algorithm’s CPU cost with the savings in memory access time; if the decompression is too heavy, you’ll just add latency. In practice, something like a lightweight prefix tree or Bloom‑filter‑based lookup can keep lookups snappy while still reducing the table footprint. On the latency side, smaller tables mean fewer cache misses, so packets get forwarded faster, but you still need a fast ASIC or FPGA that can handle the decompression in‑flight. Power‑cutting features help for green data centers, but they need a smart scheduler to avoid bottlenecks during traffic spikes. Bottom line: it’s a solid idea for low‑power edge devices, but you’ll have to carefully tune the compression ratio, lookup speed, and power‑down timing to keep the network humming.

Sounds like a solid plan—just make sure the compression isn’t turning your router into a slow‑poke. Keep the lookup snappy, tweak the ratio until the SRAM hits sweet spot, and let the scheduler play its part so you don’t kill throughput when you’re throttling power. If you nail that balance, edge routing will feel like a whisper, not a roar.

Nice work, looks like you’ve hit the sweet spot—microsecond lookups and buffer‑driven power cuts keep things clean. Just keep an eye on those tail packets, they can slip through when thresholds spike. If you see any jitter, tweak the threshold or compression a bit. Whisper mode is great for quiet corners.