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Just thought I would start the conversation...
IMHO - the major innovation for the home in 2017 has been Mesh/distributed Wireless networks for the home environment. Orbi, Eero are highlights, but others like Plume
Other items...
Thoughts and continue the thread?
IMHO - the major innovation for the home in 2017 has been Mesh/distributed Wireless networks for the home environment. Orbi, Eero are highlights, but others like Plume
Other items...
- Wave 2 for BHR's has been a bit of a bust with MU and 160Mhz - mainly due to diminishing returns and client availability and performance if available.
- We're seeing more WAN bandwidth this year - gigabit pops up more often these days.
- 11ad (60Mhz) has been a bit of a bust, again, due to client side availability.
- IoT is stepping forward - just a bit - getting beyond the hobbyist level, and the "smart home" with monitoring and what not.
- my little science project worked to get ahead of that, just to be honest
- VPN is still a big conversation topic...
- In the BHR realm - seeing bigger/better chipsets this year - ARM Cortex-A53 and Cortex-A15
- GigE is still the dominant play - lots of chatter about 10Gb, but prices are still high
- SoC vendors - Qualcomm Atheros is strong this year, Broadcom later in the year after some challenges with Wave2, but early results with their new platform are encouraging - Marvell keeps pounding out odd things that are interesting, sad part is that it's most Linksys in the SOHO market - it's good hardware there
- More interest moving away from BHR integration into components on the high end - ER-X and hEX have drawn a lot of interest from the forums.
- From the forums - AsusWRT-RMerlin is still very popular within the devices he supports, Voxel's NetGear private builds have come to the forefront for that community.
- For NAS - this year has been mostly small steps, and big steps for some vendors - the low end stuff is changing and evolving, and the big players (QNAP/Synology) have taken some very big steps on the high end.
Thoughts and continue the thread?