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there is no shortage of 1000BaseT PHY and ethernet chips or you would see absolute chaos in the market of $50 to $150 home/small office routers and ethernet swi
by walrus01 4y ago
there is no shortage of 1000BaseT PHY and ethernet chips or you would see absolute chaos in the market of $50 to $150 home/small office routers and ethernet switches. The sort of all-in-one CPU/RAM/ethernet chip that's built into a small router like the starlink one already implements ethernet it just needs the PHY to do it
If mikrotik and ubiquiti can still source the chips to build $50 routers, which is the case, there is no extreme shortage that spacex could not handle through its own ability to find manufacturers and vendors.
The starlink v2 terminal coming with a weird proprietary copper cable interface and wifi-only-to-clients is for entirely other weird spacex related reasons.
edit: here is a photo of the starlink proprietary-connector-to-1000BaseT adapter, there is not a whole lot going on here.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Starlink/comments/rxoz16/gen_3_ethernet_dongle_teardown/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Starlink/comments/rxoz16/gen_3_ethe...
- lnsru 4y agoWell there is shortage of PHY chips. Decent TI chips go for 50$ a piece over broker. Minimum order quantity 200 pieces. We took ancient Realtek parts for 7$ from broker. Normally it’s <4$. These are sad news from last 2 months. Regular distribution channels have zero stock with funny lead times of 1,5 years.
- walrus01 4y agoAt the quantities and price constraints that spacex is manufacturing the low cost home router/poe injector for the v2 and v3 standard model starlink terminals, however, i don't think they have any difference in purchasing power or use of low cost PHY compared to what you'd find in like a $50 mikrotik: https://mikrotik.com/product/hex_s https://mikrotik.com/product/hex_s https://viva-telecom.org/images/MIKROTIK/hex-s_6.jpg https://viva-telecom.org/images/MIKROTIK/hex-s_6.jpg
- askvictor 4y agoCo-incidentally, today I started looking for PHY chips for the product we're working on, and indeed, there's basically nothing available at 10/100.