On 08/12/2013 09:49 AM, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
On Mon, 12 Aug 2013, Henning Rogge wrote:Many current home-routers have 32 MB RAM (some have more), some more "expensive" ones (40$ and more) also upgrade the flash to 8 or 16 MB.How much of this cost increase is due to the flash and RAM, and how much is due to more expensive other components plus the software development effort to perhaps drive additional features these more expensive devices bring?
How much of it is just "hey, this is the improved version"? We don't know. For 80$ you already get routers with 8 MB flash and 128 MB ram.
Personally I like the way CODEC WG approached this, by making a reference implementation available in source code in the standard. This is probably not practical for a complete homenet router,
Why? A "homenet" package (most likely multiple packages) for OpenWRT as a reference implementation would be a great thing.
but at least my hope is that there will be freely available code that implementers can use so that just like they don't have to spend time to develop the linux kernel they're running on their devices, they don't have to develop (or buy) the routing control plane code (or forwarding for that matter), because it's already available.
And it might give consumers the chance to get a router with a reasonable modern linux.
Henning Rogge -- Diplom-Informatiker Henning Rogge , Fraunhofer-Institut für Kommunikation, Informationsverarbeitung und Ergonomie FKIE Kommunikationssysteme (KOM) Fraunhofer Straße 20, 53343 Wachtberg, Germany Telefon +49 228 9435-961, Fax +49 228 9435 685 mailto:henning.ro...@fkie.fraunhofer.de http://www.fkie.fraunhofer.de
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