Will there be a market for SDN network operating systems? The answer will be critical to the evolution of SDN standards and the development of applications that leverage SDN capabilities. The SDN ...

In the not-too-distant past, network operating systems (NOS) pretty much meant one thing: a Novell NetWare server for managing files and printers on a local area network. For some government agencies, ...

Networking is the last bastion of proprietary systems, but Cumulus Networks sees a near future where Linux powers network hardware by default Everywhere you look, change is afoot in computer ...

The Linux Foundation has added a new open-source project to its stable that aims to foster greater collaboration with information technology network hardware, forwarding and operating system layers.

It has been two decades since Juniper Networks, then the big upstart rival to Cisco Systems and others as the dot-com boom was rising towards its crescendo several years hence, took FreeBSD Unix and ...

Linux is a tried-and-true, open-source operating system released in 1991 for computers, but its use has expanded to underpin systems for cars, phones, web servers and, more recently, networking gear.

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