Yesterday at the Vyatta secret society meeting in San Mateo California, a group of people committed to the idea of an open source router implementation gathered at the offices of Vyatta. Other than ...

Open source has already shown some limited promise in the networking and IP telephony arenas. In the hallways at almost any IP telephony conference, attendees will inevitably hear someone mention ...

Open source operating systems have successfully spread to various nooks and crannies of technology, powering servers all over the internet, including routers. Consultant Brett Burney looks at the ...

Do "mainstream" router purchasers even know what brand their router is? Serious question. I imagine most non-techies think of their router the same way they might think of their refrigerator or ...

Open-source software for networking is still rare, but analysts and users say that could be changing. Start-up Vyatta Inc. last month released free software that provides basic router functions while ...

The open source CloudRouter Project launched its public beta release today, hoping to get the industry interested in its idea for an open source virtual router. CloudRouter got its start in March, so ...

Linksys isn't going to abandon the open-source firmware community, despite the FCC's new regulations. Some of the company's routers will continue to support OpenWRT. Share on Facebook (opens in a new ...

Most people don’t need to think twice about the router their ISP gave them. It gets your devices online, maybe lets you forward a port or two, and that’s usually good enough. But for power users, home ...