Broadcom has created a pure commodity market with their ADSL router chip set. All brands based on this chip set are effectively the same product. Next thing you know, we will be buying ADSL router futures on the floor of the stock exchange! Here is a comparison of the specifications of the top three brands based on the Broadcom chip set -- US Router, Zhone and Comtrend.

We are announcing the acquisition of a line of IP Surveillance cameras. This is a very robust product family that includes indoor and outdoor cameras, DVD recorders and a complete Web based management system. The camera discussed here is really the mother of all surveillance cameras. What is really impressive is the optical zoom and the level of intelligence built in! The ICA-651, outdoor speed dome internet camera, offers pan / tilt / zoom to control over TCP/IP networks. The ICA-651 features a 220X zooming (22x optical zoom, 10x digital zoom), auto focus, auto iris, fast, accurate and continuous 360 panning operations. Plus the 32 presets, 4 camera tour configurations, and combining the motion detection, these unparalleled surveillance functions of the ICA-651 are able to satisfy the demanding surveillance and remote monitoring applications.

This average looking SOHO(Small office/Home office) router is the answer to all of those specific applications that often force you to search out expensive and unnecessary hardware. You need a captive portal, an easily deployed packet sniffer, remote IDS(Intrusion Detection System) sensors for wired or wireless networks, or just a Linux friendly teleworker solution for L2TP/PPTP/IPsec or even OpenVPN. We frequently get requests from customers for unusual combinations of features on modems and routers. But, if any router ever tried to be all things to all people, it would be a configuration nightmare and cost as much as Cisco routers.

The open source movement has created a great amount of free software that can easily be assembled into very unique solutions. We are beginning to see equipment manufacturers opening CPE to these special solutions. It is now possible to run basic UNIX / Linux / OpenWRT on these devices and allow customers to use low cost hardware to build products that might cost 100 times as much.

We now have a low cost $60 router that can run Linux, function as an IP router and do additional functions. This has been designed to be a Linksys wrt54G clone, using the same chipsets and running the same openWRT firmware. If you have any special requirements, please contact us. We can build a device customized to your special needs.