Hi Rob,
On 9/12/2014 11:52 πμ, Robert Kisteleki wrote: > Hi, > >> I'm sure a future hardware platform for RIPE Atlas (v4, v5) will support >> 5GHz while mainting the competitve pricing of the current hardware. > Picking up on this: we're always on the lookout for potential new hardware > generations, and we are testing new devices as we learn about them. Recently > we checked out the ASUS WL-330NUL and the Edimax BR-6258 Mini. While these > are small and sexy enough (like the v1/v2 probes were; it looks like we > basically invented the form factor (*) :-), their hardware is too > constrained for our purposes. > > Please let us know if you know about new devices that we should evaluate. > The primary requirements are price (should be off-the-shelf, most likely), > capabilities (RAM and local storage needs 32MB minimum, the more the better) > and form factor (see the above candidates; home router sized boxes are not > really ideal). > > Regards, > Robert > > (*) interesting historical artefact from our archives: the attached image is > the "concept art" of how a probe could look like, dated mid-2010 I am in favor or raspberry Pi solutions based solution given that it has plenty amount of RAM. It has many possibilities ( plus you can connect a monitor ) in terms of USBs . I believe the major issue here is to decide for the Wireless USB. This can be a limiting issue as high speed wireless modes (11.ac) could be desired. So in that case consider cubox or the Huming Board (from the http://www.solid-run.com/products/) . I would opt for 1G connectivity option and a PCI -express -Gen 2 boxes..They run android. Cheers, Dimitris -- Dimitrios K. Kalogeras Electrical Engineer Ph.D. Network Engineer NTUA/ICCS skype:aweboy tel:2107721863 fax:2107721866
