I think the issue is that looking at some of the posters on EEVblog, they are using words such as 'scam' and 'faked'
Because it is a scam. Few guys with "good idea" and ZERO knowledge about implementation and no hope of delivering duck make Scampaign using FAKE art assets. Lying about Bunnies laptop pcb being their own work, using clever angle/crop shots normally employed by fat chicks on myspace to pretend their prototype actually exists. Then receive $xxxK - this automagically:
-makes them think they have something real
-that this money will somehow design product for them, just pay subcontractors, right?
-lures clueless VC money
VC will drop few mill on their laps, because VC is just as retarded as those retards and 'money will somehow design product for them'. At this point they are in 'just push something out the door at a loss, we will make it up in volume later' phase, except we have so much money we can start adding features ....
for example
http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2014/07/how-one-kickstarter-project-squandered-3-5-million/For example we could be looking at :
The placement of 'osc5/osc6' 6 seems most likely to clash with the metal case on the RJ45 pins after assembly, then there is the clash with the SMT on the right of osc6.( not to mention on most of the giga routing chips it specifically states to keep ALL oscillator circuits away from the data tracks
meh, thats just pcb semantics, will work on third board spin ($xxK spend at that point) if particular subcontractor that did that carrier board for them has a clue. Electronics are not rocket science for this project. Electronics at _particular price point_ accompanied by appropriate software stack is the key.
I can deliver Soap router today .. by shipping $1500 laptop to every backer.
The 'differentials' for the giga internet, at those speeds every 45 Deg. angle in a PCB track is potentially a dangerous curve.
dude cmon, not this 'hi speed electrons will fall off at the turn' bullshit
As regards peoples comment to the software and it being difficult to write, 'Android' has a linux foundation , there are already a multitude of 'firewalls', routers & switches already in the public domain. ( personally I would NOT have used Android' any where near this, all the GUI can be implemented in a far cleaner way)
Android ripped stock Linux network stack, there is no iptables, no netfilter, no nftables.
for such a design to be truly effective, packet switching MUST be implemented with a switching fabric, slapping 'giga' rate packets between ports is not something you do by routing the crap via an ARM CPU.
sounds kewl in your head, sounds retarded when you say 100MB/s stream cant be parsed by 1GHz of processing power (times 4 in quad core). Thats ~10K cpu cycles per packet. Even shittiest cheapest desktop board with Pentium cpu can route at line speed. If you need performance the trick is routing in userspace, bypassing linux stack overhead (this is how hi frequency trading people handle all their network traffic on linux boxes).
In fact I cannot find any mention of the word 'switch' any place in the kick-starter blurb… which would get me thinking that perhaps this is nothing more than a packer 'router', where each packet is forwarded to each and every connection in a dumb manner.
(generally Switches intelligently switch packets based on the headers and ONLY forward packets to where they are supposed to go, routers just shove every packet over every endpoint with NO regard for the header…)
someone already explained that one
Anyway, you won't find any SOHO router supporting layer 3 switching, it's to expensive for that kind of hardware and market.
https://www.turris.cz/en/L1-3 full hw acceleration.
Waiting for hackaday update, at this point its pretty obvious legal (well, not so legal when made by a fictitious corporate persona) threats were the reason of attitude change. VC( if they have any) is more than happy to pay lawyer fees to kill all the bad PR while its fishing for a bigger sucker to buy this 'disruptive innovative in teh CLOUD next NEST' thing off their hands.