User:Omega/Board PN

Identifying manufacturer board P/Ns
This page shows some examples and the general format of some P/Ns
 * or other distinguishing features attributed to various manufacturers.

Assume any information on this page is page is correct at your own risk.

AboCom
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 * AboCom (  total devices ) Abocom Systems, Inc. FCC ID: MQ4
 * Taiwanese manufacturer - they've been around for a while.

Accton / Arcadyan / AWB
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 * Accton has manufactured a large amount of products,
 * including Microsoft's old 802.11 (and non) networking line.


 * Arcadyan was formed as a joint venture between Philips and Accton.


 * AWB (Accton Wireless Broadband Corp.) is an off-shoot of the Accton Group.

ALFA Network is an Accton Group partner, their newer devices seem to be mostly Accton manuf'ed.

"P/N: 141"<4 digit numeric P/N><6 other digits / characters> (),
 * These devices usually have silkscreened text along the lines of
 * followed by, presumably, the revision, as well as a RoHS notice
 * (for newer, post-RoHS units).

Alpha Networks
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 * Alpha Networks was once the manufacturing arm of D-Link. They split off around 2003.

They still manufacture many of D-Link's products (as well as those of numerous others).

8<802.11 capability code>(some dots)
 * Generally, text of
 * (assuming any of that is correct) can be found on Alpha produced 802.11 gear.

At least some type codes seem to be as follows...
 * RG - residential gateway <??> / router
 * WRG - wireless gateway / wireless router
 * WAP - wireless access point
 * WMP - wireless adapter, 16-bit PCMCIA (generally not) or Mini PCI (mostly)
 * WCB - wireless adapter, CardBus
 * WUS - wireless adapter, USB
 * WPC - wireless adapter, PCI / PCIe
 * WMC - wireless adapter, Mini PCIe

802.11 capability codes are probably the following...
 * B - 802.11b
 * G - 802.11g
 * A - 802.11a or 802.11a/ac
 * D - 802.11a/b/g
 * AB - 802.11a/b
 * N - 802.11b/g/n
 * ND - 802.11a/b/g/n

AMIT
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 * AMIT has been around since 802.11 products have been marketed.
 * They commonly manufacture 3G/4G modem-routers for various companies..
 * and manufactured a variety of products in the past.


 * Newer AMIT boards are frequently marked with a
 * long alphanumeric string starting with 11340.

Askey
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B-LINK
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 * Chinese manufacturer - many of their wireless modules are bundled into low
 * cost devices and their stuff is frequently found on eBay and elsewhere.

Billion
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Cameo
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 * Cameo has been around for a while, and has made routers for a wide variety of companies.
 * D-Link devices are commonly manufactured by them (and most old D-Link devices
 * were manufactured by Global Sun Tech, a company acquired by Cameo).

A lead-free logo (RoHS woo) is usually featured prominently on their boards.
 * If there is a numeric P/N, it will frequently start with 2151.

Plotech has commonly manufactured their PCBs in the past.

CyberTAN
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 * CyberTAN is a common manufacturer, perhaps most recognizable for manufacturing
 * many Linksys products (including most of the venerable WRT54G series).

DareGlobal
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 * DareGlobal is a common DSL modem manufacturer.


 * Generally, silkscreened text of

"PWB:"<........> and '''"DAT:"<........ (date code)>'''
 * is found on their boards.

Delta Networks
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 * Delta Networks is one of Netgear's primary manufacturers, but they
 * also manufacture stuff for a multitude of other companies.

Edimax
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 * Edimax Wireless Devices (  total devices ) FCC ID: NDD
 * Edimax Technology Co., Ltd.


 * If there is a numeric P/N, it will frequently start with 1244-.

Foxconn (+ Ambit Microsystems)
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 * Foxconn Wireless Adapters (  total devices ) FCC ID: MCL
 * Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd., trading as Foxconn Technology Group


 * Most people have probably heard of Foxconn.
 * Ambit was absorbed into Foxconn.
 * Hon Hai is the parent company of Foxconn.

 ,
 * Internal Foxconn / Ambit models generally seem to be 7 characters -
 * followed by the presumed revision / sub-model (Foxconn T77H194.00)

Gemtek
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 * Gemtek (  total devices ) Gemtek Technology Co., Ltd. FCC ID: MXF
 * Gemtek is a prolific OEM/ODM. They've manufactured
 * a large amount of products for many companies.

  -_,
 * Generally, internal Gemtek P/Ns are in format of
 * and they are often silkscreened on the board.

Global Sun Technology
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 * Was once a major 802.11 independent OEM/ODM. Absorbed into Cameo.

Lite-On
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Loopcomm
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 * .. is a Taiwanese OEM/ODM.

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MitraStar
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 * OEM ZyXEL..

If there is a numeric P/N, it will frequently start with 45-402- and 45-601-

Examples
"45-601-000573" is silkscreened on the board in the FCC photos.
 * ZyXEL NBG6816 (ARMOR Z1)
 * OUI: 0C:4C:39 (MitraStar Technology Corp.) FCC label

Shenzhen Gongjin Electronics (SGE)
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 * SGE makes a large quantity of DSL modems for several major companies..
 * as well as a variety of other products.

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Senao / EnGenius
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 * A Taiwan based manufacturer which has made numerous popular products.
 * Their marketed brand is EnGenius (  total devices )

Senaos line of Ralink based routers are sold as Engenius/Senao but are also rebranded (ODM and OEM) for a whole bunch of other vendors.
 * Hardware:
 * Looking at Senaos circuit boards one can see that they are of high quality build and Senao has created
 * a smart layout where they can use an RT3050 or a RT3052 SoC on the same type of circuit board.


 * Software:
 * The header of the stock firmware tells us in the first 16 bytes which Senao basic model a router is based on:

00 00 00 00 00 00 02 05 00 00 00 05 31 32 33 00

byte 6 (0x02) tells the type of vendor where:
 * 01 = OBM (Original Brand Manufacturer)
 * 02 = ODM (Original Design Manufacturer)
 * 03 = OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer)

byte 7 (0x05) is vendor identification where:
 * 01 = Engenius
 * 02 = Sitecom (Europe)
 * 03 = Hamlet (Italy)
 * 04 = Rosewill (US)
 * 05 = Corega (Japan)
 * 06 = Amper (Spain)
 * 07 = ZyXEL
 * 08 = NetComm (Australia)
 * 09 = MSI
 * 0C = TRENDnet
 * 0F = Encore (US/Mexico)

byte 11 is the board identifier:
 * 01 = ESR-9750 (802.11n Router, Platform: RaLink 2880 SoC + 2860)
 * 02 = ESR-9750A (802.11n Router, Platform: RaLink 2880 SoC + 2860 + RTL8366SR GbE)
 * 03 = ESR-9750G (9750A with 32MB RAM)
 * 04 = ECB-9500
 * 05 = ESR-9750B (9750 with 32MB RAM)
 * 06 = EOR-7550 (Dual-radio)
 * 07 = ESR-9752 (3052, 16MB RAM, 4MB Flash)
 * 08 = ESR-9753 (3050, 16MB RAM, 4MB Flash)
 * 09 = ESR-7750
 * 0A = ESR-7850 (Atheros 11n AP94/96 platform)
 * 0B = EAP-3670
 * 0C = ESR-9752A
 * 0D = ESR-6650 (3G Router - 3050)
 * 0E = ESR-6670 (3G Router - 3052)
 * 0F = ESR-6670A (3G Router - 3050)
 * 11 = ESR-9850 (3052, 32MB RAM, 4MB Flash, RTL8366RB GbE)
 * 14 = EAP-9550
 * 16 = ESR-9752B-SC (9752 with 32MB RAM)
 * 17 = ETR-9350
 * 18 = ERB-9250
 * 19 = ESR-9753CR
 * 21 = ETR-9330
 * 22 = ETR-9360
 * 23 = ESR-1221N2


 * P/Ns starting with 7016A are frequently on their boards.
 * Typical Senao format labels may affixed to them.

SerComm
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 * SerComm makes a large amount of kit (  total devices ).

Tenda
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 * List of Tenda Wireless Devices (  total devices )

TP-LINK / Proware
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Newer TP-LINK boards are frequently marked with a long numeric string starting with 205 and 201


 * TP-LINK Archer C series
 * "2050500XXX" is silkscreened on the board of the wireless router (TL-WDRXXX).
 * "2052500XXX" is silkscreened on the board of the wireless module (TL-WDNXXX).
 * "2053500XXX" is silkscreened on the board of the access point (TL-WAXXX).
 * "2011500XXX" is silkscreened on the board of the AP/DSL modem (TD-WXXX).
 * "2021500XXX" is silkscreened on the board of the wireless router (TL-ERXXX).

Wistron NeWeb Corp. (WNC)
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Zioncom
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 * Chinese manufacturer - makes routers (mostly non-US distributed), USB dongles, etc

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