[Beta 2] [B One] Added support for Docker on B One
with external storage (Additional Software Add-on license required)
(Included in: 8.5.1s020)
Would love to know more about this:
Hi…
sorry… no news at Peplink Online Shop
B One is using an ARM64 SoC. The same that is used in the BR1 Pro 5G/CAT20 and BR2 Pro 5G.
Exact model is not published, but performance seems to point to Qualcomm IPQ5018 .
Can’t say for sure on any of these until someone starts cracking them open but it’s fun to look at the block diagrams and speculate.
The BR2 Pro is strait up stated to have 4 Arm 64 cores at 1.8Ghz and 2 GB of ram. The Power of Edge Computing - Peplink
This makes me think IPQ6018 or IPQ6028
If they are running a network switching chip on one of the 2.5G interfaces out of the SOC and using that to also interface to one of the cell modems (not actually too hard to do with the current Quectel chips), with the other cell run off the single PCI-E lane.
Or they could run a PCI-E bridge chip, it’s 1 lane of 3.0, more than enough for 2 5G modems.
The other network interface on the SOC would do the 4x1Gbit ports.
Looking at block diagrams, I could see designing the Br1 Pro around a IPQ5018 or IPQ5028 quite easily.
The SGMII+ interface runs the 2.5Gbit.
It has a 1Gbit right on the block diagram.
Just run the second LAN port off the second PCI-E interface and the GPS off the usb2 (explaining why that device didn’t get a USB 3 port, that’s a shared one or the other interface)
If the B One 5g is designed off of the IPQ5018/28:
The main 2 PCI-E lanes would be running the Cell modem
USB 3 port ties up the second PCI-E interface and USB2.0 interface
The 1x1Gbit is itself.
And SGMII+ interface end up doing 5 1Gbit ports or all 6. Could even be a managed switch chip but I doubt it, would double the cost of that interface.
It fits but even without seeing inside, it seems iffy with edge computing on the table. The IPQ5018 and 5028 are a dual core at 1Ghz with a single 16 bit ddr3L memory bus, so 1GByte memory max. Divide that in 2 for edge compute and I hope you weren’t planning on doing much.
If we are lucky. the B One lineup is a IPQ6028, quad core @ 1.8, DDR4 capable up to 3GB (likely 2 if they copied their other published Arm 64 hardware).
It would simplify the design slightly since you could use a Qualcomm QCA8075 for 5 of the network ports with GEPHY 4 acting as the second WAN. It would also mean there was the possibility of a 2.5Gbit port on one of the WANs that was intentionally not? Also the performance should be a bit better LAN to WAN if that’s the case, ignoring the cell connection, it’s hard to push more than 1.25Gbit through this device at only about 35% CPU load.
Eh, all speculation, also 4am speculation at that. We should see the specs in the next few days when they release the license and update the edge compute page.
B1 pro 5G is IPQ6010, I think the br2 pro is as well.
That makes sense, the IPQ6010 is almost the same as the 18 or 28, just lacks the digital signal processor core. Considering the cell modems would be where that would be needed the most; and they already have their own entire SOC, I can see why they would leave that out.
I think it is a IPQ6028… But I am not sure…
Because the cpu power need to run Edge Computing… (DOCKER)
This picture was taken at july/2024. (ANATEL)
and the NIST validation for FIPS says "Peplink Linux 5.10 on Peplink BR2 Pro 5G with Qualcomm IPQ6010 ARM Cortex A-53 without PAA ", so I believe BR2 Pro is as well.
nice… tks…
So… Br1Pro cannot run docker… Memory maybe?
storage- the br2 pro, transit pro duo and pro E have local storage, the br1 pro does not.
