On 17/07/13 23:52, Jeff Walter wrote:
On 7/17/13 1:59 PM, Alex Harrowell wrote:
On 15/07/13 01:09, Tony Patti wrote:
TWELVE years ago (press release March 20 2001), Comcast deployed Linux-based Sun Cobalt Qube appliances as CPE with their business-class Internet service, these provided firewall security, web caching, optional content filtering, an e-mail server, a web server, file and print servers. This is a good idea At the time it may have been the "best" option, but that doesn't make it a good idea. I can't even begin to comprehend the number of support calls generated by providing CPE with those functions.
That said, I can think of a couple of European quality ISPs that hand out CPE approaching that degree of feature richness - Free.fr's Freeboxes (although that's consumer-oriented), Andrews & Arnold's Firebricks come to mind.
-- Jeff Walter