http://www.gateworks.com/product/item/ventana-gw5310-network-processor

Out of price range in single units, but I don't know where the price breaks kick in.  Dual-core 800MHz ARM should be plenty of power for the GigE ports.

I think to get any sort of platform like this by a major vendor, we're looking at needing 10K quantities, which I just don't see happening, without a really well-done kickstarter type campaign.

OTOH, a kickstarter might be a good way to get a largish group-buy together for some of these more dev-minded platforms.

-Aaron


On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 12:19 PM, Wes Felter <wmf@felter.org> wrote:
On 8/15/14, 4:02 PM, Dave Taht wrote:

one promising project is this one: https://www.turris.cz/en/

Huge kudos to the Turris project for designing a modern open router. But... Freescale is in the process of switching from PowerPC to ARM and other vendors are switching from MIPS to ARM. Maybe it's worth waiting a few months for ARM to save the trouble of switching again later.

Many people here know this, but if you don't, a word of warning: These chips tend to have various accelerators that don't support CoDel. Turning off acceleration and using software AQM may reduce performance 10x compared to marketing numbers. If the marketing number is over 1 Gbps that may be fine, but as Dave said it's something that should be tested.

Intel Avoton/Rangeley looks great but very expensive; boards are around $300 without radios, case or PSU.

--
Wes Felter



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