ASUS Blue Cave Router Debuts At Computex

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From what I gathered, it's GRX350.

Could be - GRX350 is MIPS, and Intel has been moving pretty fast at getting their acquisitions over to intel arch...

Wonder which radios - my thoughts are probably the WAV500 line, as this integrates nicely with the GRX and Puma 7 lines - it's a Wave 2 WiFi chipset, and does support all the bells/whistles...

http://www.intel.la/content/dam/www...fs/xway-wi-fi-chipset-wav500-series-brief.pdf

 

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Another interesting read...

https://www.intel.com/content/dam/w...t-briefs/home-wi-fi-development-kit-brief.pdf

Intel has partnered up with Skycross, selecting their Dual IMAT line of antennas - the IMAT's are pretty slick, I've seen some of their stuff in the 4G/LTE space, and they performed very well there...

 

[TheLostSwede]

Wondering if it's Intel's 750GRX gateway chipset - pretty decent performance reports from my industry contacts for that chip...

http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/connected-home/anywan-grx750-home-gateway.html

Anyways - looking forward to when FCC releases the reports and teardown pics...

Highly unlikely. I was told today by an Intel distributor that the GRX750 has been delayed to early 2018.

 

[David B]

Is there any reason for it to be designed like that, or is it just meant to look cool?

 

[RMerlin]

Is there any reason for it to be designed like that, or is it just meant to look cool?

AFAIK, it's purely for an original look. Manufacturers have been trying harder lately to make networking devices look cooler than just square boxes, so you'll want to make them visible rather than hide them in a closet. And potentially attract the eye of potential new buyers.

 

[David B]

AFAIK, it's purely for an original look. Manufacturers have been trying harder lately to make networking devices look cooler than just square boxes, so you'll want to make them visible rather than hide them in a closet. And potentially attract the eye of potential new buyers.

Perhaps, but still....function over form.

 

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Perhaps, but still....function over form.

Design does matter... look at the smart phone biz...

Not everyone wants to have a dead arachnid in the living room - if it performs well, then good enough, and the spousal approval factor these days...

It's a nice design, and kudos to Asus there...

 

[pete y testing]

hopefully i will have the blue cave ( its a tunnel not a cave as such lol ) here soonish for a test drive , still think the name is weird but its just a name , design wise tbh to me its meh , to the misses its beautiful ( much better than those ugly things in your office lol )

hearing its designed with IoT in mind and security but wont be part of the lyra mesh and is totally stand alone , it may even have a scaled down but different feature set than the normal asus routers to reflect the IoT focus

 

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design wise tbh to me its meh , to the misses its beautiful

Exactly

With internal antennas - Skymat does good stuff (skymat is intel's partner for their reference platforms), and internal antennas, done right, can work very well.

 

[RMerlin]

hearing its designed with IoT in mind

This is mostly due to its support for IFTTT and Alexa integration.

Underneath, it runs Asuswrt.

 

[David B]

This is mostly due to its support for IFTTT and Alexa integration.

Underneath, it runs Asuswrt.

I am not sure what your policy is when it comes to answering questions like this, but are you going to support Merlin for it?

 

[RMerlin]

I am not sure what your policy is when it comes to answering questions like this, but are you going to support Merlin for it?

Definitely not, since it's not based on Broadcom hardware.

 

[pete y testing]

and there goes half the pre sales orders lol

 

[David B]

The one thing that I cannot tell about this router is this: is it intended for someone looking for a user-friendly router with only the basics or someone who wants to be able to control anything and everything?

 

[pete y testing]

is it intended for someone looking for a user-friendly router with only the basics or someone who wants to be able to control anything and everything?

until we get more specifics on the gui and web page format its anyone's guess

 

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and there goes half the pre sales orders lol

My guess is this device isn't targeted towards the enthusiast market - that being said, it'll like be good enough for most purposes...

 

[RTN]

Intel AnyWAN GRX350 PXB4395 (1600MHz) Network Processor

CPU: Intel (Lantiq) PXB4395EL (SLLFB) @1.6GHz MIPS (interAptiv)
WLAN: XWAY Wi-Fi Chipset WAV500 Series
Intel (Lantiq) PSB83524M (SLLQJ) - 4T4R 802.11ac
Intel (Lantiq) PSB83514MV12 (SLLVP) - 4T4R 802.11bgn
Bluetooth: BT 4.0 Chip Atheros AR3012

https://fccid.io/MSQ-RTHK00
https://wikidevi.com/wiki/ASUS_Blue_Cave

 

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this looks like it can also be a speaker too, just needs the magnetic and cone part of the speaker

 

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this looks like it can also be a speaker too, just needs the magnetic and cone part of the speaker

The swirly of WiFi.... I'm sure @pete y testing might have an issues here as the things turn right or left...

 

[pete y testing]

CPU: Intel (Lantiq) PXB4395EL (SLLFB) @1.6GHz MIPS (interAptiv)

from the wiki

CPU1: Lantiq (Intel) GRX750 (2.5 GHz, 2 cores)
FLA1: 128 MiB (ESMT F59L1G81LA-25T)
RAM1: 256 MiB (Nanya NT5CC128M16IP-DI)

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