Banana Pi BPI-R4 Pro board offers 2x 10GbE SFP+ cages, 7x 10GbE/2.5GbE/GbE RJ45

Product Description

The Banana Pi BPI-R4 Pro is a new router board based on MediaTek Filogic 880 (MT7988A) Cortex-A73 SoC offering two 10GbE SFP+ cages/RJ45 ports combos, four 2.5GbE RJ45 ports, two Gigabit Ethernet interfaces, and optional WiFi 7 support via the .

As its name implies, it’s a Pro/upgraded version of the first introduced in 2023, which doubles the memory to 8GB DDR4, doubles the SPI flash’s capacity to 256MB, and adds a few networking ports, M.2 expansion slots for a total of six, and a few other minor features highlighted in bold in the specifications below.

Banana Pi BPI-R4 Pro specifications:

• SoC – quad-core Arm Corex-A73 processor @ 1.8GHz with AI-powered packet accelerator called TOPS (Tunnel Offload Processor System)

• System Memory – 8GB DDR4

• Storage

  • 8GB eMMC flash

  • 256MB SPI NAND Flash

  • MicroSD card slot

  • 2x M.2 Key-M sockets for NVMe SSDs (see Expansion section for details)

• Networking

  • 2x 10GbE SFP+ cages multiplexed with adjacent 10GbE RJ45 jacks. Implemented through

  • 4x 2.5 Gbps Ethernet RJ45 ports; note: MaxLinear MxL86252C switch used

  • Gigabit Ethernet RJ45 port

  • Gigabit Ethernet via FPC connector (Note: connector 30 in photos below)

• USB – USB 3.2 port, USB 2.0 port

• Expansion

  • 3x M.2 Key-B slots with USB 3.2 interface for 5G or 4G LTE connectivity, plus three nanoSIM slots, and an external SIM card slot connector

  • 2x M.2 Key-M slots with 1-lane PCIe 3.0 for NVMe SSDs (note multiplexed with Key-B slots)

  • 2x mini PCIe slots with 2-lane PCIe 3.0 for Wi-Fi 7 NIC (Network Interface Card)

  • 26-pin GPIO header for expansion

• Debugging – USB Type-C debug console (instead of header)

• Misc

  • Reset button, WPS button

  • Cellular module LEDs, 8x LEDs, external LED FPC connector

  • Bootstrap switch

  • RTC battery connector

  • 4-pin 12V PWM fan connector

• Power Supply

  • 12V or 24V via 5.5/2.1mm DC jack

  • 20V DC input via header or USB Type-C port

  • Optional PoE module (RT5400)

  • 4-pin 5V/12V output connector

  • 2-pin 20V output connector

• Dimensions – 194 x 134 mm (Quite larger than previous Banana Pi BPI-R boards)

• Weight – TBD

On the software side, the Pro board should benefit from the work done on the earlier BPI-R4 board, and support “OpenWrt MTK”, Debian 12, and eventually . However, has no links to the system images at this time, only hardware information, the MT7988 datasheet, and a few links to related kernel commits and forum posts (requiring login, which is annoying).

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