Tiny, Low Power, Embeddable, 1G/10G Routing

RouterCore Nano brings 8 x 1GBASE-T + 2 x 10G in an ultra small, embeddable module. RouterCore Nano is designed for modern ethernet-based autonomous platforms which are moving to ethernet as a communications backplane. By providing sophisticated network and traffic management, without adding significant size, weight or power, RouterCore Nano enables far more powerful systems to be built.

RouterCore Nano is 44mm x 44mm x 30mm, drawing a maximum of 5 watts at full traffic load. This achieves:

• Bandwidth volume density of 482Mbps per cm³
• Bandwidth power density of 5,600Mbps per Watt

Nothing on the market currently achieves such functionality in such a small package.

Plug and play ready

RouterCore Nano contains all ethernet magnetics and accepts unstable input voltages from 4 to 60V (transient and voltage protected) meaning it can be dropped straight into a carrier board. It boots up in seconds as an unmanaged switch, with command line and GUI access for routing features available over over UART or ethernet ports

Insane connectivity 

• 8 x 10/100/1GBASE-T ports (magnetics included)
• 2 x 10G capable USXGMII/10GBASE-R/SGMII/1000BASE-X ports*
• 2 x TTL level UART serial ports
• 2 x CAN ports 
• 4 x GPIO ports

*Used for SFPs, CPU connector, or RouterCore to RouterCore expansion.

Insane functionality 

RouterCore supports the following routing abilities

• Full Layer 2 switch functionality
• Full Layer 3 routing functionality
• RSTP/STP
• IEEE1588v2 PTP (E2E and P2P, Transparent and Boundary Clock)
• VLAN (IEEE 802.1Q Tag Based or Port Based)
• Multi-WAN
• Multicast routing (IGMP V1/V2/V3 and MLD)
• QoS (IPv4/IPv6, QoS/CoS packet prioritization - 802.1p)
• Update over Ethernet ports
• SSH tunnelling

RouterCore also supports

• UART TTL serial to ethernet conversion
• CAN to ethernet conversion

BloxOS Software

Achieving this level of functionality in such a tiny package isn't possible using a traditional CPU + RAM setup, it's simply too big and power hungry. Instead we built our own RTOS called BloxOSLite that runs on a much simpler 32-bit microcontroller. This isn't easy to build, but it results in routing in the lowest power and size possible. It's also inherently more rugged; RAM is a huge failure vector for high/low temperature and radiation.

Technical Specifications

• Voltage input: 4 - 60V (transient and reverse protected)
• Power consumption: 5.5 Watts (all ports operating), 1.8 Watts (idle)
• Dimensions: 44 x 44 x 30 mm
• Ethernet Ports: 8 x 10/100/1GBASE-T + 2 x 10G USXGMII/10GBASE-R/SGMII/1000BASEoX
  
• CAN ports: 2 
• UART ports: 2
• GPIO pins: 4
• Operating temperature: -40°C to 105°C
  
• Shock rating: 40G for 23ms, 90G for 6ms
• Total Ionizing Dose (Radiation): 20Krad[si] 

NDAA Compliance

RouterCore Nano is assembled in the USA and is fully NDAA compliant. Get in touch for our compliance documentation.