FCC bans foreign made internet routers - Kotaku In Action 2

FCC bans foreign made internet routers (twitter.com)

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– voidposter 9 points 93 days ago +9 / -0

Routers, switches, access points or gateways? Since everyone seems to use them interchangeably.

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– undecidedmask2 14 points 93 days ago +14 / -0

Knowing the government they probably don’t know either.

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– ernsithe 6 points 93 days ago +6 / -0

Routers: For the purpose of this determination, the term “Routers” is defined by National Institute of Science and Technology’s Internal Report 8425A to include consumer-grade networking devices that are primarily intended for residential use and can be installed by the customer. Routers forward data packets, most commonly Internet Protocol (IP) packets, between networked systems.

It's consumer-grade routers using the proper definition of routers. Does that definition technically also include switches? We'll find out...
But I think what they're really interested in are Internet gateways that have laymen as admins.

https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DA-26-278A1.pdf

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