Vyatta Expands Market Choice with Pre-Integrated Open Source Routing Solution

San Mateo, CA – 2006-10-02 05:00:00 – Vyatta today announced the availability of a packaged hardware and software routing solution that includes Vyatta's Open Flexible Router (OFR) running on a Dell PowerEdge 850. A reliable and easy to deploy mid-range access router, the Vyatta offering delivers superior price/performance in a 1U rack-mounted package designed to make open source networking more accessible to users.

 

"For too long the networking giants have perpetuated the myth that only expensive, proprietary hardware was sufficient to run networks. As a result, customers have been prevented from leveraging the economic advantages of industry standard hardware," said Kelly Herrell, CEO of Vyatta. "Vyatta's offering, pre-integrating the Open Flexible Router software with Dell's hardware, shatters the myth that standard hardware isn't up to the job and provides small and mid-sized business customers the cost-effective solution they have been waiting for. Customers can now take advantage of the superior economics and flexibility of an open-source solution coupled with the ease of deployment and trust of Dell's hardware."

 

The combination of Vyatta's OFR and the Dell PowerEdge 850 performs exceptionally well, delivering two gigabits of throughput at a fraction of the cost of comparable proprietary products. In addition to excellent price/performance, users regain control over their network infrastructure by virtue of Vyatta's open architecture and flexible support model.

 

“I want a dependable, feature-rich routing solution, but as a growing business I need to keep a close eye on cost and resources. I don't want to pay for a bunch of unnecessary features, and I don't want to waste limited data center rack space on an under-utilized piece of hardware," said Charles Stewart, VP of Operations with Adify. "Vyatta's open software model allows me to get the features I need, while leveraging the advantages of industry-standard hardware that I can run other network centric services and applications on. I like being able to buy a pre-integrated solution directly from Vyatta – the features and flexibility I need, in a familiar and trustworthy hardware package that I can drop right into my network."

 

Availability and Pricing
Available now for $1,797, the offering includes the Vyatta OFR software loaded on a Dell PowerEdge 850 that comes with 256 Mbytes of RAM, an 80 Gbyte hard drive, a PCI-X slot, and a PCI Express slot, and a one-year OFR Professional subscription. For users interested in a software-only solution, a freely downloadable version of the OFR is available from the Vyatta web site, as well as software subscriptions which include maintenance, upgrades, and software support services. In addition, the Vyatta Community, a public forum for Vyatta users and developers, provides tools, discussions, blogs, newsfeeds, and other resources for getting started with the OFR. To order the Vyatta OFR pre-integrated with the Dell PowerEdge 850 or to download the software-only OFR, go to www.vyatta.com.

 

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.

 

Press Contact:

Melissa Neumann

Eastwick Communications

650.480.4036

melissa@eastwick.com

 

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