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Israel's SolidRun Creates Open Networking Kit Inspired By Raspberry Pi (venturebeat.com)
Reader joshtops shares a VentureBeat report: SolidRun, a developer of electronic modules and PCs, said it is launching ClearFog Base kit, an off-the-shelf open development kit that enables do-it-yourself hardware enthusiasts to create their own telecom-grade routers. The kit is based on the Marvell Armada 38x SoC processor that runs on open source software based on OpenWrt. It lets enthusiasts build telecom-grade routers capable of Gigabit speed and embedded storage. The kit is inspired by the DIY computer kit, Raspberry Pi, which has sold a surprisingly large number of units. With OpenWrt support and several connectivity options, device makers can easily utilize the ClearFog Base within their own products to bridge a variety of network standards, like LAN, Wi-Fi, LTE, Fiber, and DSL. They can also utilize mikroBUS boards for IoT type networking standards such as ZigBee, Sub GHz, Bluetooth, and others. The $70 kit was created by Tel-Aviv, Israel-based SolidRun.
I would think it couldn't broadcast a good 2.4 and 5 signal like a similar 70 dollar router could. Maybe this is ok wired, but wireless? Eh.
This is also ignoring the fact that the Pi has a heat issue and loves to garble SD cards. Better take regular backups of your SD card.
Much as I'd like to support Israeli companies, I don't know what I'd use this for. Maybe a wifi repeater?
been waiting forever for a company to build something like this: cheap, powerful but low-power usage.
You must be popular at parties.
...I see DIP switches...
HBI's Law: Frequency of calling others Nazis is directly correlated with the likelihood of the accuser being Communist.
WTH is telecom grade???
There's carrier grade, and this certainly isn't it.
Ctrl-F'd for 'mesh' and on both TFA and found nothing. Does anyone know if the software will be there to make these turn key mesh networks?
I have ~40 acres 0.15 sq km and would like to get wifi to a few parts. A few of these on solar panels would be perfect.
This is just another scam to sell more Raspberry Pi's right?
I'd love to see Untangle or another firewall option built on this. Small, low-power, cheap, no fan...
I used to have a sig, but I set it free and it never came back.
I like the news but can understand properly what is OpenWrt?
1 day Microsoft ads?
next day Jew software?
alternate each day?
srsly?
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i think we crashed it...
https://www.solid-run.com/product/clearfog-base/
And what exactly is a telecom grade router?
What's the throughput like on the ports? The big problem with the Raspberry Pi is that the ethernet port is on the SoC's USB bus which would be a bottleneck for network gear. Presumably these guys have thought of that?
It was a Pentium 90 computer from 1995-1996. Wasted a god awful amount of electricity but I loved the idea of keeping a Pentium 90 running for 10 years years pretty much non-stop. It needed rebooting maybe 3 times in 10 years. I was running Slackware 7 on it. I only stopped running it because I sold the house it was running it and didn't feel like packing it up.
This sounds like a decent replacement for the ancient WRT54G I've got in my home office.
I know that reading is hard and the race to snarkily comment about things means that there isn't much time to do it, but, Jesus Christ, how many of you jumped in to talk about the problems with the Raspberry Pi without even reading either the summary or the title?!
pci-e based nic's or usb?
The pi's usb 2.0 ones can't even do 1 full 100 link much less gig-e or even 2 100 links.
Rehash of a rehash of a press release, No new news or insight here.
SolidRun website appears to be slashdotted.
Prove anything by multiplying Huge Number times Tiny Number
This board cannot do Wi-Fi, LTE, Fiber, DSL, ZigBee, Sub GHz, or Bluetooth. The summary is absolute rubbish.
You could attach other hardware to do all of these things, but that hardware would not be this hardware.
You could just as easily say that a Raspberry Pi Zero can be used to build a solution for Wi-Fi, LTE, Fiber, DSL, ZigBee, Sub GHz, or Bluetooth. And the Pi is 10USD
It makes me doubly proud as a Jewish-Israeli tech worker that an Israeli company made it to Slashdot with an interesting product, and that this company was founded by two guys who are Israeli Arabs and has equal numbers of Arab and Jewish employees.
Reference: http://www.israel21c.org/a-two-inch-computer-for-55/
That's actually the most positive news I'd heard in a while.
All I can find are the $90+ baseboard and $70 processor module -- so the kit is over $160 and at that price still doesn't have any wireless interfaces.
None of the "mikroBUS" wireless boards (trying for confusion with the well-known Mikrotik wireless hardware, perhaps?) support MIMO. miniPCIe does give better options, but figure ~$50 for the radio card, then add antennas.
Sorry, but no this is not $70, not price-competitive with Raspberry Pi, and not for serious networking.
Think
- 9/11
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- Londons 7/7 transport bombings
- Orlando
- San Bernardino
- Fort Hood
- Brussels
- Paris
- Nice
- Mumbai
- Nairobi
Sharia Law settlements in Eurabia are upset that you are occupying their land.
I looked for this on Digikeyand didn't find it, but they do have a bunch of SolidRun boards, including the ClearFog Pro which has 6+1 GbE and an SFP, plus 2 mPCIe slots and 1 mSATA. At less than $175, that's a steal. I've been waiting for something like this that could replace the discrete routers, ethernet switches, and Arduino programming slaves at my transmitter sites, which only have a few hosts each. There have been other multi-nic SBC's, but I have yet to see one this cheap.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I have backups to corrupt.
Ummm, do you have anything like facts?
All Raspberry Pi boards that provide Ethernet do so with the help of an SMSC LAN9512 (2-port) or LAN9514 (4-port) USB2.0 hub and 100Mbps Ethernet interface chip.
There is no version of Raspberry Pi on which the Broadcom SoC provides a native Ethernet controller, as one finds on a BeagleBone Black and on most other Linux boards. All RasPi boards that have Ethernet run it over USB2.0 and so are limited by other USB traffic, as the parent said.
Umm, an AC comment that was clearly derogatory now has no text?!
How is that technically possible?
Do slashdot editors now also edit comments? Never thought I'd see the day where censorship arrived on /.
Listen dipshit,
Solid Run is an Israeli Arab company.
Let me repeat this.
Solid Run is an Israeli high tech startup created by Israeli Arabs. Very talented folks you can talk to on IRC.
Appropriately, the slashdot captcha is "brickbat"
In my experience anyhow. I have a WRT1200AC running OpenWRT, and last I checked (couple weeks ago) support is all over the place. Builds are forked with feature support scattered across them.