Open-source routers come with many benefits. These are the ones I find the most compelling.

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 ...

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 newly released version 25.12.0 of OpenWrt supports more devices and uses a new package manager. The OpenWrt project has ...

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 ...

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 ...

Vyatta, a maker of Linux-based routers, this week said its software scales to 10 Gigabit Ethernet, providing enterprises and service providers with an open source alternative to proprietary routers ...

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 ...

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 ...