Open-source software for uses in networking applications is relatively rare, but start-up Vyatta Inc. recently released free software that provides basic router functions while running on a commodity ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 router company Vyatta debuted earlier this year with a Red Hat-style alternative to Cisco and Juniper offerings: the Open Flexible Router, an open source-based WAN router and firewall ...

The headless package is available on GitHub, promoting transparency across the open-source community. Here's all you need to ...

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 ...

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 ...

A move is afoot to revive development of an open-source router platform. The Extensible Open Router Platform (XORP) is an open-source software project for creating production-level open-source router ...

Either way, there's definite demand for routers that support open-source firmware, like the very popular Tomato and DD-WRT. Netgear Inc., Santa Clara, Calif., announced the WGR614L Open Source ...

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 ...

What is a good router that supports the open source pfsense? I don't care for wifi but it needs to have gigabit speed support.