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Vyatta Releases Vyatta Core 6 Alpha

Preview of Next Vyatta Version Adds Support for 802.11 Wireless and Netflow

Belmont, CA – 2009-11-12 05:00:00 – Vyatta, the leader in open networking and network virtualization, today announced the release of an early alpha version of Vyatta Core 6 (VC6), the company’s open source router, firewall and VPN software. Included in the alpha release of VC6 is support for 802.11 wireless connectivity and Netflow traffic statistics collection. The final release of VC6 is slated for the first quarter of 2010. To download and try the software, go to http://www.vyatta.org/downloads.

"This alpha release is another milestone in our four year commitment to delivering the industry’s most complete open source routing and security solution," said Dave Roberts, vice president of strategy for Vyatta. "Our user community plays an important role in our growth and we're very excited about the upcoming Vyatta Core 6 software. We take user input seriously and look forward to the feedback from our community on the addition of 802.11 support and Netflow."

NEW FEATURES IN VC6 ALPHA
Support for 802.11 Wireless Connectivity
Support for the 802.11 wireless standard provides the ability to use Vyatta in branch offices that have integrated wireless connectivity to user machines. This eliminates the need to buy a dedicated access point for the branch office.

Support for Traffic Statistics Collection
VC6 Alpha supports both Netflow versions 5 and 9 and Sflow. Netflow generates advanced statistics related to traffic flow through the system, enabling enterprises and service providers to manage their networks more effectively. This information may also be used by service provider billing systems.

Enhancements to IPsec VPN
Enhancements to IPsec VPN provide greater compatibility with third-party IPsec implementations.

Bug Fixes and Enhancements
VC6 includes all the bug fixes and enhancements provided in Vyatta’s previous subscription-only release, code named Jenner, including:

• Full support for the Citrix XenServer hypervisor, including optimized drivers and XenServer management tools
• Firewall enhancements, including IPv6 firewall, P2P firewall, time-based firewall rules, rate-limiting firewall rules, address groups, and zone-based firewall
• NAT enhancements, including per-rule logging
• WAN Load Balancing enhancements, including source-based routing
• QoS enhancements, including the addition of three new QoS algorithms
• IPv6 enhancements, including OSPFv3
• Over 200 bug fixes

Additional features will be included in the final subscription edition of Vyatta 6, including URL filtering, TACACS+, and other IPv6 enhancements.

Availability The VC6 alpha is available now and can be downloaded at http://www.vyatta.org/downloads.

About Vyatta
Vyatta is disrupting the networking industry by delivering a software-based, open-source, network operating system that is portable to standard x86 hardware as well as common virtualization and cloud computing platforms. Vyatta software provides a complete enterprise-class routing and security feature set capable of scaling from DSL to 20Gbps performance at a fraction of the cost of proprietary solutions. Thousands of physical and virtual infrastructures around the world, from small enterprise to Fortune 500 customers, are connected and protected by Vyatta. For more information, please visit http://www.vyatta.com.

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