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