From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from gateh.kw.bbc.co.uk (gateh.kw.bbc.co.uk [132.185.132.17]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by lists.bufferbloat.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id F1F153B2E8; Fri, 11 Mar 2016 18:55:18 -0500 (EST) Received: from mailhub1.rd.bbc.co.uk ([172.29.120.129]) by gateh.kw.bbc.co.uk (8.14.5+Sun/8.13.6) with ESMTP id u2BNtFij024094; Fri, 11 Mar 2016 23:55:15 GMT Received: from sunf10.rd.bbc.co.uk ([132.185.128.110]:61274) by mailhub1.rd.bbc.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.84) (envelope-from ) id 1aeWtn-0002Kw-FX; Fri, 11 Mar 2016 23:55:15 +0000 Received: (from brandon@localhost) by sunf10.rd.bbc.co.uk (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) id XAA15161; Fri, 11 Mar 2016 23:52:49 GMT Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2016 23:52:49 GMT From: Brandon Butterworth Message-Id: <201603112352.XAA15161@sunf10.rd.bbc.co.uk> To: paul@redbarn.org, dave.taht@gmail.com Cc: chromatix99@gmail.com, luis@bitamins.net, bufferbloat-fcc-discuss@lists.redbarn.org, cerowrt-devel@lists.bufferbloat.net, make-wifi-fast@lists.bufferbloat.net X-Sun-Charset: US-ASCII X-Mailman-Approved-At: Wed, 16 Mar 2016 11:41:57 -0400 Subject: Re: [Make-wifi-fast] [bufferbloat-fcc-discuss] On building your own routers and the mass market X-BeenThere: make-wifi-fast@lists.bufferbloat.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2016 23:55:19 -0000 On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 12:09, Dave Taht wrote: > > the cznic team has already done this. > > > > https://omnia.turris.cz/en/ > > I am rooting for them, also, hard! They've made all the right choices > technically and it's (aside from the wifi, currently) the best chipset > possible from an open source perspective Even then it's not easy, I'm using a similar Marvell in a project (not a CPE or AP) and they were not keen to support it (they want netgear quantities) so it's handy what cznic are doing. Much appreciated Here's a video I recorded of their UKNOF presentation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHCfVC01HR0 > It would be my hope, that with another year's worth of software > development that their design would be suitable for more mass market > CPE, particularly to ISPs in the fiber space That's how I found them, I have another project (a FTTH install) that I'd love to use that as the CPE but at this stage it's way over our budget (I'm not saying it's too expensive as it's fine given their volume). > - but who knows - with serious volumes, on a standardized platform > that gets 100ks of deployments by ISPs, manufactured for the long > term, the omnia's costs could drop significantly enough to be > competitive with cheap crap I'm hoping that happens I we can use it as CPE brandon