Home network access points are common IT equipments found almost in any home. Unfortunately they do only one job and are completely closed. This paper describe a next generation device, that may look like any other home network router but will have advanced functionality as described here. For easy reading, the device will be called in this paper: ROUTER2.
The essential part in ROUTER2 is a slim hard drive that adds the following benefits to the device:- the device will have classical functions found in any other device of its class, such as Wireless access point, Network Switch and Internet Router;
- embed much more OS features (preferable Linux) because of an extra storage space;
- the device will be visible in the internal Windows network, being in this way a perfect NAS device;
- integrated Web server and FTP server will allow remote access to files stored on the device. Users will be able to build their own web site without paying expensive hosting space;
- integrated backup server software that will allow users to use the device as a backup solution;
- optional integrated antivirus that will scan all incoming traffic;
- miscellaneous applications such as web photo album that will automatically allow sharing of personal photos with outside world via web;
- plug-in-able – users will download additional software modules from manufacturer website or 3rd party producers (ex. embedded mp3 streaming server, etc);
- when not used, the hard drive will enter in stand by thus increasing its lifetime and decreasing the noise and heat dissipation.
For more information:
http://www.axentra.com/ – They produce an application similar with the previous described one, but with 2 major disadvantages: big size and big price (between $500 and $900);
http://www.mirra.com/ – Mirra Personal Server is a server dedicated for backups
http://www.buffalotech.com/ (and http://www.kurobox.com/ ) and other companies produce NAS devices
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