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• Open source router project administers Lithium

  The CloudRouter Project, a months-old effort to open source cloud routing, is announcing first shipment of OpenDaylight's new "Lithium" SDN controller.

• United routes root of outage to router

  <a href="http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-united-flights-grounded-20150708-story.html">United Airlines blamed a router problem</a> for disrupting service and halting flights for over an hour today. 

• Chipmakers giving home networks a gigabit boost

  Chipsets that power equipment capable of smoothly moving 4K video streams inside homes over wireless and wired networks were on display at the Computex trade show.

• UK gang arrested for exporting $10 million of fake Cisco gear to US

  Three men accused of selling and exporting over $10 million worth of fake Cisco networking equipment into the U.S. have been arrested by U.K. police.

• Brocade switch extends SDN, campus automation

  Brocade this week unveiled a campus switch and other enhancements to better support video and wireless traffic, improve management and extend <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/category/sdn/">software defined networking</a>.

• Does Juniper have too many SDNs?

  After last week's Innovation Day announcements, Juniper Networks has a range of SDN, data center fabric and data center switching products to choose from.

• Microsoft and Cisco offer a Cloud-in-a-box

  Cisco and Microsoft have jointly created a software and hardware package designed to help cloud providers spin up new services more quickly.

• HP latest to unbundle switch hardware, software

  HP has joined the disaggregation party through two partnerships that will produce a branded white box switch capable of running multiple network operating systems.

• Cisco building switch ports to feed faster Wi-Fi

  Cisco Systems is forging ahead with LAN switches designed to support faster Wi-Fi access points even while an Ethernet standard for the technology they use is still taking shape.

• Exploit allows Asus routers to be hacked from local network

  A vulnerability in Asuswrt, the firmware running on many wireless router models from Asustek Computer, allows attackers to completely compromise the affected devices. Malicious hackers, however, need to launch their attacks from within the local networks served by the vulnerable routers.

• Vulnerability in embedded Web server exposes millions of routers to hacking

  A serious vulnerability in an embedded Web server used by many router models from different manufacturers allows remote attackers to take control of affected devices over the Internet.

• Cisco lawsuits aside, Arista forges ahead with EOS

  As it faces down a litigious assault from rival Cisco, Arista Networks is enhancing its switch operating system to expedite DevOps deployments.

• Juniper unbundles switch hardware, software

  The switch/software disaggregation derby has begun.

• Alcatel-Lucent virtualises WANs and routers

  Alcatel-Lucent's Nuage Networks SDN venture has broadened its product line to tackle enterprise WANs, an increasingly vital market for the technology.

• Brocade beefs up campus with SDN, new stackable

  Brocade this week rolled out new and enhanced campus switches designed to better support mobility, social networking and cloud data traffic in the enterprise.