The most valuable feature is the ability to update the firmware or software for new features. The good thing about the StrataDNX is that the Broadcom family is very interchangeable, so they work well with different optical transceivers. 

It's almost plug-and-play, and it's still hard to develop with any of those high-speed chips, but relatively Broadcom provides a nice reference design that you can pretty much copy and paste into your design. Then you modify the software for different features you want to implement in them, like the PCP timing. It helps make it cheaper.

I like that the solution is easy to integrate with any of the other hardware platforms on the market. It manages the routing and tweaking capabilities very well. the Knowledge Based Processor (KBP) is additional handy feature to help the StrataDNX to get a better scale