god box
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A single appliance that does everything - routing, firewalling, VPN, IPS, load balancing - one box to rule them all.
Beloved by budgets and branch offices, feared by architects: the god box is a single point of failure with a very long blast radius, and its jack-of-all-trades feature set rarely matches best-of-breed depth. The eternal trade against complexity and cost.