Any new hardware planned for 2025?

[Antibiotic]

Hello, can get any info about this?

[stephenw10]

You mean from Netgate?

Nothing I'm aware of. What would you like to see?

[Antibiotic]

@stephenw10 Yea, from Netgate. I mean new hardware with a modern and more power chips, memory and etc! or could you please provide link with E.O.S Netgate current hardware?

[Gertjan]

@Antibiotic said in Any new hardware planned for 2025?:

link with E.O.S Netgate current hardware?

You mean link with E.O.S Netgate current hardware?

[stephenw10]

https://www.netgate.com/support/product-lifecycle

[keyser]

@stephenw10 said in Any new hardware planned for 2025?:

You mean from Netgate?

Nothing I'm aware of. What would you like to see?

A SG-3200!

Equipped with a high power 4 core ARM based CPU and:
One 1 Gbe dual identity (rj45/SFP) WAN NIC
One 2.5 Gbe RJ45 OPT1 NIC
4 switched RJ45 ports on a 2.5 Gbe LAN NIC
M.2 NVMe slot for expansion (eMMC for default storage)
4 Gb RAM (or more).

I would jump on that immediately :-)

[stephenw10]

@keyser said in Any new hardware planned for 2025?:

Equipped with a high power 4 core ARM based CPU

Capable of routing/firewalling at 2.5Gbps I assume?

[mcury]

@keyser said in Any new hardware planned for 2025?:

I would jump on that immediately :-)

Those 4 2.5Gbe switched ports would be nice..
2 WAN ports..

[keyser]

@stephenw10 said in Any new hardware planned for 2025?:

Capable of routing/firewalling at 2.5Gbps I assume?

Optimally yes, but around 2 gbit would be fine (as long as it is actually 2gbit in real life IMIX situations and not a marketing number).

BUT: The SFP port (dual identity) is CRITICAL. The 4200 does not have one and it makes it a moot product.

[stephenw10]

You would want to use the GPON/XPON SFP module dircetly? At 1G or some higher speed?

[JonathanLee]

Maybe a home pro product like the 2100-Ultra with 8GB ram or a 4200-formula-one with 8GB ram please??? Pretty please with a cherry on top….

[keyser]

@stephenw10 said in Any new hardware planned for 2025?:

You would want to use the GPON/XPON SFP module dircetly? At 1G or some higher speed?

Yes - these boxes needs to be able to terminate fiber connections directly as the last thing I/we need is another router/bridge in front that can also cause issues or break.

I only wrote 1 Gbit for the interface because I understand the cost/product segmentation issue with the 2100 and 4200 on either side of it.
But obviously I would MUCH prefer a 2.5Gbit Dual Identity interface if possible as that would enable XPON capabilites and performance :-)

I'm crossing my fingers for such a product :-)

[ngr2001]

@stephenw10

I'd like to see an ASIC offering to compete with the performance of say a Fortigate. Any Change we ever see that.