3Com Enables Linux in Switches

From the “It’s about time” book, 3Com Corp. today unveiled a new open-source approach to its networking products centered on a Linux-based module that fits into its Router 6000 family and will support multivendor applications for security, voice over IP and other functions. Linux is an ideal embedded OS that has a huge set of applications that can be leveraged off their platform. It even had me thinking how we could use this embedded Linux to distribute applications throughout the network to provide capability closer to where it is needed. What about an Asterisk or SIP blade ???