Filogic 860 / MT7987
The MediaTek Filogic 860 is the mainstream Wi-Fi 7 router and gateway platform below Filogic 880. OpenWrt and shipping boards identify the silicon as MT7987 / MT7987A, with four Cortex-A53 cores up to 2.0 GHz. MediaTek markets the Filogic 860 platform for BE7200 dual-band Wi-Fi 7 APs, routers, and gateways with multi-gig Ethernet and a dedicated networking NPU.
General Specifications
Specs
| SoC | Filogic 860 / MT7987 |
|---|---|
| CPU | OpenWrt MT7987A: 4× Arm Cortex-A53 up to 2.0 GHz MediaTek Filogic 860 marketing also describes a triple-core Cortex-A73 platform SKU under the same brand |
| RAM | DDR3 / DDR4 |
| Storage | SPI-NOR, SPI-NAND, eMMC |
| Wi-Fi | Dual-band concurrent Wi-Fi 7 (a/b/g/n/ac/ax/be) Platform class BE7200 (7.2 Gbps PHY) 4x4 2.4 GHz + 5x5 5/6 GHz antenna design on the Filogic 860 RF platform |
| Ethernet | USXGMII 10 GbE class, 2.5 GbE PHY, and multiple 1 GbE ports on the platform |
| NPU | Hardware QoS and tunneling offload (VLAN / PPTP / L2TP / GRE) Networking crypto engine (EIP-197) for IPv4 NATP / IPv6 / DS-Lite / 6RD |
| I/O | PCIe 3.0, USB 3.2 Gen1, UART, SD, SPI, PWM, GPIO |
Variant Differences:
- MT7987A: Quad Cortex-A53 @ 2.0 GHz. Used on boards such as the Banana Pi R4 Lite and GL.iNet MT5000. OpenWrt support landed in late 2025; WED/WO wireless offload still needs more work.
- Filogic 860 platform: MediaTek’s product page emphasizes single-MAC MLO, BE7200 PHY, and multi-gig wired options for AP, router, repeater, and gateway designs.
Linux Support
Mainline / OpenWrt
- OpenWrt
mediatek/filogictarget includes MT7987 - Wireless offload (WED/WO) and some PHY firmware paths are incomplete on early support
See OpenWrt pull request #20304 for the initial MT7987 bring-up.
Resources
Boards with Filogic 860
List of boards: