About Vyatta

Application-centric business initiatives are driving IT to adopt virtualization, cloud computing and network edge consolidation to maximize application availability and minimize costs in the distributed enterprise. While each of these architecture shifts has obvious cost-saving benefits from resource consolidation, they have exposed old-world box-bound IP networking as the weak link in next-generation architectures. To truly support next generation IT architectures, the new requirement is that the network infrastructure be as agile as the applications it supports.

Vyatta On Demand Networking delivers on that requirement. Vyatta pioneered the decoupling of routing and security software from proprietary hardware, creating the industry’s first and only platform-independent network operating system, Vyatta Network OS. Vyatta Network OS enables system architects to secure and connect virtual, cloud or physical infrastructures while delivering the same elasticity, mobility, auto-provisioning and utility licensing benefits of the applications they support.

 

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The Vyatta Name

The word "Vyatta" (pronounced vee-AH-tah) is ancient Sanskrit and means "open." We thought this name was particularly fitting since Vyatta is a next generation networking company with ancient, back-to-basics values, focused on opening the closed, box-bound proprietary hardware networking model. By delivering a software-only solutions based on open networking standards Vyatta is opening the layer 3+ networking stack to be available as an application for physical, virtual and cloud architectures.

Gartner

"Vyatta is certainly the headline name behind open-source networking"
- Mark Fabbi, Gartner Inc. Analyst

Tolly Group

"(Vyatta's) open system running on standard hardware not only can scale better in enterprise and service provider edge deployments, but it also delivers enough headroom for expansion"
- The Tolly Group

Nemertes Research

"Enterprise: Open source routing should be on your radar, especially if you are budget-challenged; (Vyatta's) added security features only make it more important that you evaluate the options."
- John Burke, Principal Research Analyst, Nemertes Research

Forrester Research

"..the growing acceptance of open source products and the current budget-shrinking economy should help Vyatta's cause"
- Rob Whiteley, Forrester Research

ZDNet

" Vyatta, has taught Cisco and the market that a networking box is really nothing but a computer with software."
- Dana Blankenhorn, ZDNet

Yankee Group

"Take an open, standards-based approach to networking."
The Virtual Enterprise Requires a Network That Is More than 'Good Enough'
- Zeus Kerravala, Yankee Group Analyst

TechRepublic

"..anything you want to do with a standard Cisco router, you can do with Vyatta for the most part, and you don't have to worry about the various Cisco IOS licenses."
- David Davis(CCIE, CCNA, CCNP), TechRepublic