Thanks for asking!
As you may have read, we have been working hard in development of EtherREGEN Gen2 for almost 2 years—utilizing more readily available parts and incorporating a number of technical advancements. These include Gigabit capability on both the ‘A’ and ‘B’ sides of our unique active-differential-isolation moat, even lower jitter clock synthesizers, an exceptional new PHY chip, and the world’s best sine-to-square wave converter (benefiting those who chose to pair with an external 10MHz reference clock). The new version will even include a second SFP cage—on the ‘B’ side—to improve performance for users of optical endpoints.
Unfortunately, due to documentation and programming issues with the different main switch chip we have been developing with—and now forced to abandon and pivot back to the expensive one as used in the original EtherREGEN—we now expect first shipment of EtherREGEN Gen2 will not take place until about August/September 2025.
Price is not yet firmly set, but like the original, EtherREGEN Gen2 will be priced incredibly reasonably for the advanced tech and high cost parts utilized. I always planned on it being in the mid-$700 range, certainly less than $800.
But now with the pivot back to the expensive main switch chip (the 1/4 priced one we now abandoned would have helped offset some of the above costly feature/perfomance additions) and the uncertainty of tariffs (our aluminum cases come from Japan and the boards are assembled in Canada), I am not at all certain where the final price will land.