Banana Pi BPI-R3 Wi-Fi 6 router development board powered by MediaTek Filogic 830

Banana Pi has launched its BPI-R3 Wi-Fi 6 router development board, powered by MediaTek Filogic 830. This powerful development board features dual-band wireless and 8 antennas, plus OpenWRT OS, allowing product designers to begin prototyping their own designs, or users to create DIY Wi-Fi access point projects. The mPCIe slot can add cellular capability, and an M.2 M-key, GPIO, and USB allows further upgrade options to meet product design needs.

Banana Pi BPI-R3 specifications:

• MediaTek Filogic 830 SoC with quad-core Arm Cortex-A53 CPU and hardware-based Networking Engine
• Networking
  • 2.4GHz 4×4 Wi-Fi 6
    
  • 5GHz 4×4 Wi-Fi 6
    
  • 8x u.FL antenna connectors
  • 2x 2.5GbE SFP cages
  • 5x Gigabit Ethernet ports (1x WAN + 4x LAN)
• Expansion
  • Mini PCIe slot with USB signals only + MicroSIM card slot
  • M.2 M-Key PCIe interface (2-lane PCIe 2.0)
  • 26-pin GPIO header
• 2GB DDR4
• 8GB eMMC flash, MicroSD card socket, and support for M.2 NVMe SSD
• USB – 1x USB 3.0 Type-A ports, 2x USB 2.0 headers
• Debugging – Debug UART header for serial console
• Misc – Reset and WPS buttons, fan header, boot switch
• Power Supply – Via DC jack or 2-pin header