The first networking stacks were open source stacks with either BSD, or people would run [networking] software on Suns. That was a common way to get yourself on the Internet in the 1980s.

Networking giant joins five other companies in supporting the Linux-based operating system originally developed by Microsoft ...

OpenSwitch is a modular, Linux-based open source network operating system (NOS) hosted in the Linux Foundation. It is a software platform that provides Layer 2 and 3 capabilities.

LF Networking has announced Essedum Release 1.0, a modular open source platform designed to accelerate the integration of AI ...

Five fantastic open source tools for Windows admins Network World’s Open Source Subnet community Big Sister The author of Big Sister says he was impressed by Big Brother but wanted to change it ...

Open standards have driven the networking market since the earliest days of the Internet. While the use of open source for networking is a more recent phenomenon, it is no less important. A major ...

Open source networking technologies are now leading the way forward for enterprises, cloud and telco. That's the direction coming from LF Networking (LFN), which is a part of the Linux Foundation.

In 2014, companies and open source programmers alike are working as hard as they can to virtualize hardware into software. The latest example of this is Network Functions Virtualization (NFV). The ...

In partnership with Cumulus Networks, they want to be your open-source network services provider as well. Written by Steven Vaughan-Nichols, Senior Contributing Editor Jan. 28, 2014, 1:57 p.m. PT ...

The Open Compute Project has grown out of work Facebook has done in its data centers, but is now run by a larger community effort. Frankovsky said Facebook's newest data center is completely built ...