Actiontec Electronics

Actiontec Electronics, Inc. is a company headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, that designs and sells networking and broadband equipment. They are best known for the Actiontec MI424WR router that is provide to Verizon customers, specifically its FiOS customers.
The company sells its equipment through partnerships with telecommunication service providers and equipment makers, such as Verizon, Qwest, Telus and other North American service providers. 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 rev 1 (v5b) processor. It runs a BusyBox distribution of the Linux (embedded) operating system. The antenna is removable and uses a reverse polarity SMA connector.
Revisions of router
As of April 2009 there are three different hardware revisions of this hardware.
Revisions A and B of this router have a large squared off clamshell 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, D, E, F, or G.
Ref F adds 802.11 Draft N support, while Rev G adds Gigabit Ethernet as well as 802.11N 2009 spec.

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