R4 - Banana Pi BPI-R4

Banana Pi BPI-R4 Router Board with MediaTek MT7988A (Filogic 880) Quad-Core ARM Cortex-A73 design, 4GB DDR4 RAM, 8GB eMMC, and 128MB SPI-NAND Flash onboard. It features 2x 10Gbe SFP, 4x Gbe network ports, one USB 3.2 port, and M.2 support for 4G/5G/NVME SSD. Additionally, there are 2x miniPCIe slots with PCIe 3.0 2lane interface for Wi-Fi 7 NIC (Network Interface Card). This is a highly powerful open-source router development board.

MediaTek MT7988 (Filogic 880):
The MediaTek Filogic 880 offers a 36Gbps Wi-Fi 7 access point/router/gateway platform that delivers the fastest and most reliable connection experience. The MediaTek MT7988A is a world-leading network processing platform for high-performance and reliable networking experiences, both in wired and wireless applications. The MT7988A features a variety of connectivity interfaces, including 4 Gigabit Ethernet ports, 2 USXGMII 10G interfaces, 4 PCIe interfaces, and 2 USB 3.2 ports.

The MT7988A enables seamless Wi-Fi 7 tri-band connectivity with 2.4 GHz, 5 GHz, and 6 GHz, supported by its Wi-Fi 7 companion chip, which provides 320-MHz bandwidth, 4096-QAM, MLO, MRU, and AFC. To meet the demands of rapidly evolving tunneling applications, the MT7988A is equipped with the MediaTek Tunnel Offload Processor System (TOPS), which allows the processing of a variety of tunnel protocols. The MT7988A optimizes network performance with MediaTek TOPS' specially tuned ISA, elevating network offload performance to a premium level.

Application Directions:

• Internet Service Router
• Wi-Fi 7 Wireless Router
• 4G/5G Wireless Router
• Wireless Repeater
• Home Security Gateway
• Home Automation
• NAS Device
• Network and Communication Applications

Hardware Specifications of the Banana Pi BPI-R4:

• CPU: MediaTek MT7988A (Filogic 880) Quad-Core ARM Cortex-A73, 1.8GHz processor
• SDRAM: 4 GB DDR4.