<div dir="ltr">I wrote Cisco ios software early in my career (predating Wi-Fi and ethernet switching.) We purchased a sun workstation for $100K that supported compiles for 8 of us. Last week I built a 7 unit Rpi5 system running full linux, pacing CCAs, ip routing, bridging, etc., connected via a managed vlan switch for less than $1000. It's truly amazing that what was once a full workstation is now so inexpensive.<br><br>I think a challenge we face is that these cheap SoCs are blinding us. They are good for prototyping but not for end users homes which is at around 2.2-2.3B worldwide. Then maybe ten Wi-Fi radios per home (using the term radio loosely.) Here, the solutions need to be in full transistors (and very low power and very secure.) The advantages of getting rid of these complex SoCs are so great it's worth doing. Wi-Fi doesn't need to be managed by a complex workstation and 30+ years of software bloat. It just needs to move packets well between a waveguide and free space. (The preferred waveguide is fiber but others will work too.) It's non-trivial the amount of NRE to do this and our industry to date has not even really tried. Not sure why but it seems a mistake to me.<br><br>Bob<br> </div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Jul 26, 2024 at 3:57 PM Dave Taht via Make-wifi-fast <<a href="mailto:make-wifi-fast@lists.bufferbloat.net">make-wifi-fast@lists.bufferbloat.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><a href="https://linuxgizmos.com/pine64-unveils-oz64-an-upcoming-sbc-featuring-sophgo-sg2000-soc-and-wi-fi-6/" target="_blank">https://linuxgizmos.com/pine64-unveils-oz64-an-upcoming-sbc-featuring-sophgo-sg2000-soc-and-wi-fi-6/</a><br clear="all"><div><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>Artists/Musician Campout Aug 9-11</div><div><a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/healing-arts-event-tickets-928910826287" target="_blank">https://www.eventbrite.com/e/healing-arts-event-tickets-928910826287</a><br></div><div>Dave Täht CSO, LibreQos<br></div></div></div></div>
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