The Turris Omnia NG is a high-performance Wi-Fi 7 router with a mini PCIe slot for 4G/5G modems, two 10GbE SFP+ cages, a 240×240 px color display, and a D-Pad button, running OpenWrt-based Turris OS, and designed for advanced home users, small businesses, and lab environments.
Built around a 2.2 GHz Qualcomm IPQ9574 quad-core 64-bit Arm Cortex-A73 CPU, the Omnia NG supports Wi-Fi 7/6 tri-band connectivity. Additionally, it features four 2.5Gbps Ethernet ports, two USB 3.0 ports, NVMe storage support, and includes a 90 W power supply for attached peripherals. Other hardware highlights include rack-mount supports, a metal chassis, and antenna arrays for 4×4 MIMO operation. It comes 10 years after the original Turris Omnia open-source router was launched on Indiegogo.
Turris Omnia NG Router specifications:
- CPU – Qualcomm IPQ9574 quad-core Arm Cortex-A73 processor @ 2.2GHz processor
- Memory – 2 GB RAM
- Storage
- 8 GB eMMC storage
- M.2 socket for NVMe SSD
- Display – 240 × 240 px IPS color display
- Networking
- Wi-Fi
- 6 GHz – Wi-Fi 7 (up to 11,530 Mbps)
- 5 GHz – Wi-Fi 7 (up to 8,647 Mbps)
- 2.4 GHz – Wi-Fi 6 (up to 800 Mbps)
- 4×4 MIMO per band, up to 8 antennas
- WAN – 10 Gbps Ethernet SFP+ cage
- LAN
- 10 Gbps Ethernet SFP+ cage
- 4x 2.5 GbE RJ45 ports
- Optional 4G LTE/5G cellular connectivity via mini PCIe slot
- Wi-Fi
- USB – 2x USB 3.0 ports
- Security – Turris Sentinel firewall system
- Misc
- D-Pad to control the display’s menu
- Passive cooling
- RGB status LEDs
- SIM slot for cellular modems
- Dimensions – 280 × 241 × 143 mm
- Operating temperature – 0 to 40°C
- Encloser – Metal enclosure; rack-mount ready
- Package weight – 1,750 grams
Security features include the adaptive Turris Sentinel firewall system, which analyzes network activity across the global Turris ecosystem to detect and mitigate threats in real time. This distributed protection model allows the router to receive automatic updates and maintain continuous monitoring without requiring user intervention.
In terms of software support, the Wi-Fi 7 router runs OpenWrt-based Turris OS with support for LXC containerization, automatic updates, and a web interface for installing and managing preferred Linux distributions directly on the device. More information can be found in the documentation for the software and the hardware.
It’s the third platform based on the IPQ9574 SoC we’ve covered. The other two are the AL02 / DR9574 reference board from Qualcomm we noted in 2023, and more recently, the Nexalta Guardian private cloud platform, which tries to implement a lot of features into a single device, and includes slots for Rockchip RK3588 or NVIDIA Jetson system-on-modules, as well as M.2 socket for AI accelerator modules to handle local AI. All those hardware platforms support 10GbE and WiFi 7, but the Turris Omnia NG is a complete router and focuses exclusively on networking.
The Turris Omnia NG is available on discomp for €453.57 before VAT, or about €548.90 with VAT, which corresponds to roughly $526 and $638 USD at the time of writing.
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