Support for Xscale intel processor

RouterOS General
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Support for Xscale intel processor is very cool. Its possible?

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not planned at this moment

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Hi Normis,

It would be great if we either had new MT hardware with more horsepower (preferred) or support for the xScale processors.

We’re getting behind the performance curve for single board computers unless we go to something like a Pentium M which is expensive and harder to power…

A teaser statement from MT about upcoming higher performance hardware would be pleasant. :stuck_out_tongue:

George

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consider this a teaser statement

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ooohhh that just made my day :slight_smile:

I was really dreading having to use P4 motherboards with cpu fans outdoors.


How about something with enough juice for 3-4 SR5 or SR2? Any chance on that?


SMA

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6 meters pole with P4 on the top :wink:.
I’m not going to take pictures, I don’t want to scare you :slight_smile:.

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Now if we could get just a hint as to when such a faster board might be available…

George

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latvians have a saying - give the devil your small finger, and he will take the whole hand :slight_smile: sorry, no more info now.

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Nearly 4 months later here, and no word on this yet…

We need more CPU power, and support for 3-4 400mw mini-cards!!!

What news???

SMA

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I would really like to know myself even a rough spec would be nice and it will be ready in the next six months or so.

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it’s not like that. we have many new upcoming products, and the development of a complicated device is not a fast process.

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Any new information to shed on this subject?

We’re looking for faster processing power also, xscale has it, MT … TBD?

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Now that was a can of worms,

All over the floor !!!

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I just want more POWER! :smiling_imp:

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For time being X86?
Or are there power issues??
There is supposed to be a new platform out but I have not hear the details..

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More power didn’t help our wireless/WDS latency problem with NStreme as we thought it would in PtMP. Now we’ll have to figure out what else to do.

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Unfortunately the majority of our applications rely on PoE runs up Masts, Towers, Utility Poles, etc. I’m not a fan of Lengthy LMR runs and amplifiers.

I could try something with x86, but I’m looking for a cheap (sub $500) access point that I’m not going to waste hours assembling and testing. I like our current formula with the RB500’s and outdoor NEMA enclosures w/ miniPCI cards. It’s small and powerful, just needs a little more juice for things like NSTREME and dynamic routing. We’d also like to be able to increase our PPS and throughput.

Something like this would be nice:

http://www.gateworks.com/avila_gw2348_4.htm

I just want RouterOS on it, since we’ve standardized around this software. :slight_smile:

One of our higher traffic links that sees an aggregated ~5mbps consistantly w/ 1000 pps sits around 40-60% CPU load all day long with spikes in to the 80-90%. That’s with the CPU clocked @ 264MHz. (I’ve tried clocking to 333MHz it just won’t take the setting, RB532A)

Anyway, the sooner RB jumps on the higher CPU bandwagon the better.

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all RB500 should accept setting of 333MHz just set it right, you can find many threads that are talking about setting to 333.

now it is available with 400MHz (399) setting from factory (newest revision board)