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What is a "network appliance"?

To run fancy firewall / threat monitoring software with logging and packet inspection for a whole lot of users with very high reliability and uptime.

You want one to stop all the mean hackers trying to steal the valuable secrets living in your home network of a computer and a few smartphones.
 
repoman0 said:
To run fancy firewall / threat monitoring software with logging and packet inspection for a whole lot of users with very high reliability and uptime.

You want one to stop all the mean hackers trying to steal the valuable secrets living in your home network of a computer and a few smartphones.
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Not to mention my precious toast secrets.
 
Basically a fancy name for a server that has a dedicated purpose. Companies spend hundreds of thousands for these things and usually it's just a rebadged low spec Dell server running Linux. 😀 You pay for the proprietary software and the support though.
 
Obviously junk that will break right away. Any quality appliance is finished in stainless steel, and would match my granite countertops.
How can I entertain in my home if I have a black appliance?
 
NoTine42 said:
Obviously junk that will break right away. Any quality appliance is finished in stainless steel, and would match my granite countertops.
How can I entertain in my home if I have a black appliance?
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As long as it stays in the kitchen, there shouldn't be an issue.
 
Anyone remember the "Network Computer" that was claim to have replaced the PC in the mid 90's? Or the "Internet Appliance" of 2000?
 
whm1974 said:
Anyone remember the "Network Computer" that was claim to have replaced the PC in the mid 90's? Or the "Internet Appliance" of 2000?
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Yes. They were essentially the architectural equivalent of the old "dumb" terminals.

with all the cloud enabled crap we're having push nowadays, it's basically the same thing come around again. The only difference is it the company is selling the things, finally realized we wanted our dumb terminals to be powerful enough to play video games.
 
whm1974 said:
Anyone remember the "Network Computer" that was claim to have replaced the PC in the mid 90's? Or the "Internet Appliance" of 2000?
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It's amazing how quickly we forget...phones, tablets, chromebooks, and laptops are all cheap & amazing these days. People hardly remember netbooks, let alone Internet Appliances, haha! Remember these bad boys??

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Haha MSN TV. I remember hearing about that but I never actually seen it in action at all. TBH it would have been decently advanced for it's time. The idea of having TV on your computer was quite something at the time. You could get capture cards and hookup your cable to it and stuff, but it was quite niche. I remember hooking up the VCR to the computer so I can capture AND record video and I thought it was the coolest thing ever.
 
The network appliance is designed for a variety of applications, including VPN/SDN/NFV/SD-WAN, network security, data management, and analytics. Given the fact that the said purposes have different requirements, the appliance has to be flexible in terms of configuration.
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That pretty much explains it. It's anything YOU want it to be.
 
My LG washer is on the network. It pings my phone when it finishes a load. No practical value. Except I get a wee bit of amusement in giving her grief about laundry from the other side of the world. Sorta makes it worthwhile.
 
the easy simple friendly home network computer has replaced the real computer.
desktop sales dropped off and tablets are being used everywhere.
 
Kaido said:
It's amazing how quickly we forget...phones, tablets, chromebooks, and laptops are all cheap & amazing these days. People hardly remember netbooks, let alone Internet Appliances, haha! Remember these bad boys??
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I still have a couple Virgin Webplayers I never got around to hacking...
 
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