Given the mention of IoT, I imagine the idea is targeted at home users who
aren't IT professionals, and the aim would then be to provide IT
infrastructure in a box for the home user who doesn't want to run separate
servers for their IoT devices; for these people, it's probably conceptually
easier
Tom Metro wrote:
A good theory, but in this case I believe the database idea was
mentioned with respect to what Qualcomm was planning to offer to the
consumer market. Some sort of a resource to be used by your
Internet-of-Things connected devices in your house.
...
What could possibly go
I recall reading an interesting article long ago about halted routers.
The concept, as I recall, was to boot a minimal Linux system, establish the
network, routing, and firewall rules, then halt the system without powering
off and without disabling the networking. A vestige of the kernel would
On 02/01/2014 02:42 AM, Tom Metro wrote:
Is running applications on your router really such a good idea?
http://gigaom.com/2014/01/31/in-a-distributed-world-cache-is-king-why-routers-are-becoming-the-new-server/
[...]
Cisco's IOx architecture will be a Linux-based operating system that
On 02/01/2014 07:46 AM, Daniel Feenberg wrote:
On Sat, 1 Feb 2014, Peter (peabo) Olson wrote:
On February 1, 2014 at 2:42 AM Tom Metro tmetro+...@gmail.com wrote:
Is running applications on your router really such a good idea?
Daniel Feenberg wrote:
Tom Metro wrote:
Is running applications on your router really such a good idea?
I don't imagine they expect users to run SQL or Word.
Actually the article I quoted mentions hosting a database on the router
several times, though I chalked that up to speculation by the
Richard Pieri wrote:
Tom Metro wrote:
Actually the article I quoted mentions hosting a database on the router
several times, though I chalked that up to speculation by the author.
If this is true then I figure Cisco is targeting the financial sector
with this. The only reason to put a
Is running applications on your router really such a good idea?
http://gigaom.com/2014/01/31/in-a-distributed-world-cache-is-king-why-routers-are-becoming-the-new-server/
[...]
Cisco's IOx architecture will be a Linux-based operating system that
will be embedded in forthcoming industrial
