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 ...

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 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 Extensible Open Router Platform (XORP) is an open-source software project for creating production-level open-source router code. Like its predecessor the Linux Router Project (which ended in 2002) ...

The CloudRouter project, an open source virtual router, is launching today. Peering specialist International Internet Exchange (IIX) is spearheading the project, claiming it's a way for enterprises to ...

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 ...

Netgear on Monday trumpeted the release of the WGR614L, hardware the company is calling the "first open source router". The new router supports both Tomato and DD-WRT firmware which makes it possible ...

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 ...

In a nutshell: Nearly a year after its initial announcement, OpenWrt enthusiasts can now purchase the first "official" router powered by the namesake open-source firmware. The OpenWrt One model ...

Well, time to look at a ubiquiti for the next one, or a pfsense box. My current 3600 tp-link is just fine with DD-WRT for now, though. It does what it needs to do, though I know it won't handle a real ...

For reference, at that price you can get a Check Point UTM 600 which is a sexy beast of a small / branch office router. I doubt the feature set of anything the next ten years forward from D-Link / ...

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 ...