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
