Vodafone unveils prototype 5G network built on a Raspberry Pi computer
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#2> Vodafone is now looking at ways to democratise MPNs and extend their benefits to micro and small business owners whilst lowering the entry cost and reducing the resources needed to experience new digital services
oh like... maybe making it open source? Or democratization as in "sell as many as possible"?
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#3I hope they really push this concept and sell the hardware at a loss. A lime micro SDR with a raspberry pi in a box is a radio hacker's dream come true.
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#4If we could get an off the shelf SOC that's powerful enough to manage a PCIe daughter card, that would make me so happy.
Software defined radio, offloaded eBPF, RAID controllers, are just the most obvious compute peripherals but there are a million others that could exist but don't.
edit: acronym typo
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#5> Vodafone is now looking at ways to democratise MPNs and extend their benefits to micro and small business owners whilst lowering the entry cost and reducing the resources needed to experience new digital services oh like... maybe making it open source? Or democratization as in "sell as many as possible"?
Sell as many as possible and require an on-going service/support contract or charge by usage.
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#6Vodafone move to occupy the radio frequency spectrum by co-opting the builder/maker culture, but actually don't care about that as much as the future revenue potential in visibly using 5G frequencies so the regulator has to acknowledge 'prior occupancy' when deciding frequency collision issues in the market.
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#7If we could get an off the shelf SOC that's powerful enough to manage a PCIe daughter card, that would make me so happy. Software defined radio, offloaded eBPF, RAID controllers, are just the most obvious compute peripherals but there are a million others that could exist but don't. edit: acronym typo
CM4 supports it, although its just 1x and PCIe 2.0
Re: Vodafone unveils prototype 5G network built on a Raspberry Pi computer
#8If we could get an off the shelf SOC that's powerful enough to manage a PCIe daughter card, that would make me so happy. Software defined radio, offloaded eBPF, RAID controllers, are just the most obvious compute peripherals but there are a million others that could exist but don't. edit: acronym typo
We maybe come from different worlds but I have soc == security operations centre and ebnf == extended Backus-Naur form.
What are these in the context of your comment, though?
Re: Vodafone unveils prototype 5G network built on a Raspberry Pi computer
#9If we could get an off the shelf SOC that's powerful enough to manage a PCIe daughter card, that would make me so happy. Software defined radio, offloaded eBPF, RAID controllers, are just the most obvious compute peripherals but there are a million others that could exist but don't. edit: acronym typo
Aren't there quite a few already? People have been powering eGPU's with them.
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#10Isn't this just "Now you can pay to purchase and operate hardware to compensate for our crappy coverage, so we don't have to improve it ourselves?"