YouTuber makes his own 10gbs router

[JollyJamma]

As the title says, he’s making his own router and it can run Linux, openWRT and they are looking at opensense

Very cool and now he has seed funding from an investor as an update.

I doubt this router will be cheap but it should be very very fast.

 

[Caged]

I think this was discussed in another thread, and while I wish him luck I think he's at least another year out from having something that can ship, and 2x SFP+ and 3x 1GbE for £400 will look quite poor value for money by then.

 

[John24]

Someone in the comments said all the hardware acceleration modules are closed source which seems like a big negative. I does look good though I hope it's a success.

 

[JollyJamma]

I think this was discussed in another thread, and while I wish him luck I think he's at least another year out from having something that can ship, and 2x SFP+ and 3x 1GbE for £400 will look quite poor value for money by then.

Sure.

I don’t think it’ll be the best value router ever but I think there would be enough demand from people who want a really flexible router and don’t really mind the cost.

It’s definitely not aimed at your average joe who wants a set and forget Unify router.

 

[Spleen Sauce]

Sure.

I don’t think it’ll be the best value router ever but I think there would be enough demand from people who want a really flexible router and don’t really mind the cost.

It’s definitely not aimed at your average joe who wants a set and forget Unify router.

The USP of the Unifi router though is that it’s either ‘set and forget’ or ‘tinker as much as you want’ depending on who you are, and it’s at a price point that’s fairly sensible (at least in the case of the Cloud Gateway Fiber). Outside of that, you have Mikrotik.

 

[jonneymendoza]

I think this was discussed in another thread, and while I wish him luck I think he's at least another year out from having something that can ship, and 2x SFP+ and 3x 1GbE for £400 will look quite poor value for money by then.

You can get a mikrotick or even a unifi router with similar spec for less off the shelf today

 

[JollyJamma]

You can get a mikrotick or even a unifi router with similar spec for less off the shelf today

Great. That's not what this router is about. It's not supposed to be another OEM like router, it's supposed to be fully configurable from the ground up and run multiple operating systems.

 

[Armageus]

it's supposed to be fully configurable from the ground up and run multiple operating systems.

Which is fine, but again why? What use case is this solving that isn't catered for better by an existing router?

As for multiple operating systems. Again that's fine, but who is going to bother to port all these operating systems?
It's a bit like the dream of open source Switches. Yes SONiC exists, but having looked into it every piece of hardware it runs on has some proviso, usually a result of manufacturers not wanting to give up the "secret sauce" that makes their hardware acceleration work for example. Hence why at best you get binary blobs for drivers, and at worst you get no hardware acceleration.

10Gbps is at the point it can be done with commodity x86 PC hardware with things like OPNSense, VyOS and others, depending entirely on what features you need.

 

[jonneymendoza]

Which is fine, but again why? What use case is this solving that isn't catered for better by an existing router?

As for multiple operating systems. Again that's fine, but who is going to bother to port all these operating systems?
It's a bit like the dream of open source Switches. Yes SONiC exists, but having looked into it every piece of hardware it runs on has some proviso, usually a result of manufacturers not wanting to give up the "secret sauce" that makes their hardware acceleration work for example. Hence why at best you get binary blobs for drivers, and at worst you get no hardware acceleration.

10Gbps is at the point it can be done with commodity x86 PC hardware with things like OPNSense, VyOS and others, depending entirely on what features you need.

yup well said and many of those routers form mikrotick also runs docker containers so that really opens the door for those routers.

This custom made router is pointless IMO

 

[Steveocee]

Loads of dual sfp+ mini fanless firewalls on Ali that you can run proxmox on.

He’s building a niche for a smaller niche.

Good luck to him (as I sit here behind my 10gb backbones network to my firewall running proxmox).

 

[Si MPS]

Not sure what the market is for this, it’s a solved problem IMO