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3.0 stars
"Cellular Routers Are Nothing New"
Pros: Interesting Box With PCMCIA Radio
Cons: Check Out The Competition
Summary: Cellular routers are tricky things, so you should be careful with your purchase. Also you do have options. Besides Junxion there are quite few cellular routers that are currently available on the market beside the one from Junxion reviewed here. Here are a few more you may wish to consider:
C-Tek Skyrouter - Industrial enterprise grade $1295 radio included
Has lots of inputs for industrial controls
Proxicast LAN-Cell - Industrial enterprise grade $895 radio included
Has VPN. Believe this is the orignal cell router
Alliant Networks - More SOHO $599 + PCMCIA card radio
Have been bought by Broadcom and shut down
Possio PX30 - SOHO unit from Europe $795 + radio
Kyocera KR1 - SOHO coming 12/05 - priced at $190 + PCMCIA radio
Trial balloon shown at the CTIA show
Motorola Cellular Residential Home Gateway - Shown at CTIA 2005
This unit is being sold in Brazil now but may come to the US
MultiTech - Showed one at the CTIA show
Digi Int DigiConnect - Currently only EDGE
China Top Global - The make the routers that "EVDO Coverage" sells
Soekris Engineering - This the Junxion Box, just add cards & linux
See the Stompbox website: http://moro.fbrtech.com/~tora/EVDO/index.html
Also, rumors have it that many cellular phone manufacturers have cellular routers in the works and will be selling them through the cellular carriers in the winter of 2005-2006.
Shop carefully each of these products are different and have different pluses and minuses. Some are better than other for certain applications. I would be sure to contact all the manufacturers and discuss your application needs with their sales reps.
Cellular routers are a very tricky thing. Ask about demo hardware or trial policy. Actually check out how each product works in the field. Don't just assume that because you saw it on a web site that it is going to work for you and your application.
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Did you even try the junxion box out? You give it a score of 6, yet all you talk about are products either not yet available or more expensive than the Junxion box. If you actually tried the Junxion product Tom, you would be impressed. It is strictly plug & play.
