Banana Pi Wifi7 router product design. Do you want to make it a batch product? Good suggestions, welcome to discuss
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My team and I are looking for such a hardware platform for our product, which is exactly what I need; however, our product is based on a unified operating system platform called Talos OS, and this is a problem!
We can cooperate with you to do software system transplantation
What’s the form factor of that case? Does it fit 10 inch racks?
It seems to have enough room for secondary board for I/O or heavier processing, maybe consider leaving an option for a second set of fans?
The case would be exactly what I’m looking for. Where can I buy it?
this compact housing helps to chunk 4 of these in a 1U setup
Yes, sure just add a SPI LoRa HAT to the 26p GPIO - GitHub - markbirss/lora-starter-edition-sx1262-i2c: Raspberry Pi Starter Edition HAT ((i2c breakout and single spi core1262 only)
It’s quite big and well I think having all the antennas on one side is bad idea since it’ll suffer from noise issues and signal issues imo
yes , easy to free DIY
In addition to the housing, we also design the adapter board and soft cable, so that wifi7 modules can be put aside to help heat dissipation, plus the power supply is built in. More conducive to commercial products
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Good evening @sinovoip, I think my colleague @SpectreDev is right about the antennas. They should be on both the front and back, and on both sides. It’s not a good idea to have all the antennas in one place. Besides, the BE19000 would fit perfectly in that box, since the BE14000 is proving to be a failure in terms of noise and power.
If you truly want to be a benchmark router in Wi-Fi 7, the power supply would have to be external. Creating a heat source inside the box would be a mistake. I don’t think having it inside the box would be commercially helpful.
It would be advisable to reconsider the issue of the antennas and the internal power supply.
Currently, to give Wi-Fi 7 a longer range, since I don’t have 5G modules, I have the antennas placed in this position. The gain has been greater range and I have gained something on the noise issue
Regarding the recommended manual in the assembly video official .
Thank you for listening to your users
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That’s excellent news. Will the adapter board be available for purchase separately? And, most importantly, did you check if using the adapter has an impact on the RF noise level?
I have to agree with the others here. You might want to reconsider whether you really should move all the antennas to the rear. You could, for example, provide mounting holes for antenna pigtails on the sides next to the fans, as you have done in the small housing that is already available. In addition, it might not be a bad idea to integrate a USB/FTDI 3V3 adapter and provide a socket for it in the front when designing a spacious housing.
Maybe perforated punchouts or even slottable aluminium 4x antenna holes on each side?
As others have mentioned, a 1U form factor would be great but it could offer a lot of flexibility with that space - with clever screw placement, there could be options of 1, 2 or more mainboards with PSU external or internal. Depending on appetite, daughter boards could be added with capabilities for more PCIe for WiFi, NVMe, SFP, LAN or LTE.
Cooling is also worth consideration - needs thought on where to place fans and heatsinks.
Of course, interference testing is a must for a WiFi product.
This would fit a wide variety of use cases in that form factor.
Good afternoon @sinovoip, it would also be nice if the bottom cover had ventilation holes to accommodate this type of ventilation for routers. I’m sure that for those who aren’t bothered by the noise, the whole banana will be completely cool.
And some holes in the top to let air out. To make it look nicer, we could put a dust cover on top, like those used on magnetic PCs, to hide any ventilation holes that the top would have.
Thanks for listening to your customers and banana users.