pfSense

Q: What is pfSense?

pfSense is an open-source firewall and router platform for network security, routing, VPN, and traffic management.

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What we add

Topic graph

A wire service tags a release with a category, once. It doesn't maintain a durable graph over time. We connect them to a topic graph an agent can query.

Cybersecurity https://decisioninsights.ai/term/cybersecurity/ Data Center https://decisioninsights.ai/term/data-center/ Network Operator https://decisioninsights.ai/term/network-operator/ and 18 more

Counted facts

A protocol or open source project keeps no vendor list and publishes no figures of its own to check this against. This counts how it actually shows up across the graph -- articles that name it, the organizations named alongside it in those articles, similar projects, and organizations whose topic tags overlap with its own -- computed, not curated.

Related projects OPNsense, OPNFV, pnda, PNDA (Platform for Network Data Analytics), Floodlight, eBPF, OpenStack Neutron, Open Security Controller Related organizations OpenWrt, Deciso, MikroTik, AVS ISP, Start.ca, FatPipe Networks, Jovica Mizdrak, NetGear