Whenever a company manufactures a product with a radio frequency (such as Bluetooth or Wi Fi), it must obtain the approval of regulatory agencies such as the FCC. Interestingly, new FCC documents this week show that apple is preparing a mysterious new "network adapter" running IOS. The product code is "a2657", which is simply described as "network adapter". According to documents shared by the FCC, apple sent a sample of the device to the agency on January 22, 2022.
Although there is no picture of the adapter, the details of its internal hardware are described in the document. It has two Gigabit Ethernet ports, supports Wi Fi and Bluetooth, includes NFC antenna and a usb-c port. Interestingly, the FCC document also shows that the Accessory It has 32GB of internal storage and 1.5GB of memory. The second version of the same product has a lightning port instead of a usb-c port, and only 1GB of memory.
According to these files, the adapter runs firmware "19f47", which is an early build of IOS 15.5. With this in mind, we assume that the adapter is based on Apple Its own chip runs like Apple's studio display.
More details about this network adapter are unclear, because Apple has asked to sign a confidentiality agreement valid until November 2022, which may be related to the equipment of the chopped Apple airport base station brand.
