| Vyatta (meaning 'open' in ancient Sanskrit), which | | | | of over 75% against the performance of Cisco's |
| took the networking world by storm through its | | | | 7200 product family. This adds up to 10X price |
| introduction of the first commercially supported, | | | | performance, as the company claims. Similarly, VC4 |
| open-source router and firewall solution a few years | | | | delivers high-performance 10 Gbps networking for as |
| ago, is back in the news once again, this time with its | | | | cost as less as $6,000 against $50,000+ for most |
| robust and innovative network operating system, | | | | competing proprietary products. |
| Vyatta Community Edition 4 (VC4). | | | | Apart from these, the Vyatta Community Edition 4 is |
| Vyatta, the open source networking company, had | | | | designed to accommodate virtually any number of |
| announced to the media that they had released | | | | future applications and extensions to existing ones. |
| Vyatta Community Edition 4 (VC4), the latest version | | | | Also, much to the relief of managers of smaller |
| of its already popular, open source based network | | | | networks using DSL or cable connections, VC4 |
| operating system to users. Over most currently | | | | provides support for PPPoE and dynamic interface IP |
| available proprietary network solutions, the VC4 | | | | addresses, and WAN load balancing. |
| offers significant scalability improvements and | | | | At the launch of the new product, Vyatta CEO |
| expanded application support to its router/firewall | | | | quipped "Customers can now deploy and manage a |
| VPN feature set and achieves a 10X price | | | | single network OS, instead of juggling dozens of |
| performance advantage. Pricing has one of the major | | | | incompatible versions chasing after different product |
| advantages of Vyatta, which places it as a viable | | | | requirements. Along with a 10X price/performance |
| open-source alternative to solutions from majors like | | | | advantage, the management advantages bring a |
| Cisco/Juniper. | | | | radically better TCO to customers who embrace |
| According to Vyatta sources, VC4 now scales from | | | | open networking. We're thrilled with Vyatta's |
| DSL to 10 Gigabit Ethernet environments, offering big | | | | adoption and community development to date, and |
| and small enterprises and service providers with | | | | are looking forward to delivering more advancements |
| high-performance networks a robust, open | | | | at a modern pace of innovation." |
| alternative to expensive proprietary network | | | | Vyatta's Community Edition software has been |
| systems. Further, VC4 incorporates new routing | | | | downloaded over 150,000 times already by |
| technology for enhanced performance and leverages | | | | organizations in aerospace and defense, financial |
| the constant improvement in open-source | | | | services, education, government, technology etc, and |
| components and the rapid advances within the x86 | | | | the number is increasing by the day. Hopefully, the |
| ecosystem for a substantial price over performance | | | | new Community Edition version VC4 also draws |
| advantage. A recent Tolly Group analysis on the | | | | similar interest from industries across all spectrums. |
| same showed that Vyatta achieved 2-3 times higher | | | | Vyatta's Community Edition 3, the predecessor to |
| performance in internet routing against a cost saving | | | | VC4, was launched in November 07. |