- Actiontec Electronics
Infobox Dotcom company
company_name = Actiontec Electronics, Inc.
company_type = Private
company_slogan = "Creative Solutions for the Digital Life."
foundation =1993
location_city =Sunnyvale, California
location_country =United States
key_people = Dean Chang, Predident & CEO
Brian Paul, CFO
num_employees = 440
industry = Communications equipment
products =Router s, DSL/Cable Gateways, Switches,Wireless Access Point s, and Storage|, VoSKY Skype Gateways
url = [http://www.actiontec.com/ www.actiontec.com]Actiontec Electronics, Inc. is a company headquartered in
Silicon Valley ,California , that designs and sells networking and broadband equipment. They are best known for the Actiontec MI424WR router that is given toVerizon customers, specifically its FiOS customers.It also makes VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) products to work with
Skype , mainly business classPBX to Skype gateways but also including a speakerphone that plugs into a computer's USB port.The company sells its equipment through partnerships with telecommunication service providers and equipment makers, such as Qwest, America Online, NTL, UK Online, Dell, and Hewlett-Packard. It also sells through retailers.
MI424WR
This router is one of the first to offer a Coax MoCA connection, which allows it to feed data (e.g. video) for set top boxes. In addition to the WAN coaxial connection are four 10/100 megabit ethernet ports and one 10/100 megabit ethernet WAN uplink port. It uses an XScale-IXP4xx/IXC11xx rev 1 (v5b) processor. It runs a
BusyBox distribution of theLinux (embedded) operating system. The antenna is removable and uses a reverse polarity SMA connector.The factory issued login is admin and password is password.
GPL violation lawsuit
On 7 December 2007, the
Software Freedom Law Center filed a copyright infringement lawsuit on behalf of the two principle authors of BusyBox against Verizon for distributing the MI424WR router without complying with theGNU Public License requirement to also publish the source code. [ [http://www.softwarefreedom.org/news/2007/dec/07/busybox/ BusyBox Developers File GPL Infringement Lawsuit Against Verizon Communications - Software Freedom Law Center ] ]On 9 February 2008, Actiontec [http://opensource.actiontec.com/mi1424wr/actiontec_opensrc_mi424wr.tar.gz released their source code for the MI424WR] as required by the GPL.
Revisions of router
As of November 2007 there are three different hardware revisions of this hardware.
Revisions A and B of this router have a large squared off clamsehell that is not Verizon branded. The revision C changes the clamshell to a slightly smaller design with rounded edges. The Verizon FiOS edition of the router is now branded in the firmware and on the clamshell, and is labeled as revision C or D.
References
External links
* [http://actiontec.com/ Actiontec Electronics Home Page]
* [http://opensource.actiontec.com/ Actiontec Open Source repository]
* [http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/content/view/30022/51/ Detailed review of MI424WR hardware and software] on SmallNetBuilder
** [http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/images/stories/lansrouters/actiontec_mi424wr/actiontec_mi424wr_board_top_big.jpgMI424WR circuit board top]
** [http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/images/stories/lansrouters/actiontec_mi424wr/actiontec_mi424wr_board_bottom_big.jpgMI424WR circuit board bottom] including Ralink miniPCI 802.11b/g card
* [http://wiki.openwrt.org/OpenWrtDocs/Hardware/Actiontec/MI424-WR OpenWrt]
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