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 ...

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 ...

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 is adding VPN support to the latest release of its open source router/firewall product. Vyatta says with its IPSec VPN function, combined with stateful firewall and advanced routing features, ...

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 ...

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 / ...