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Vyatta Scales to 10 Gigabit Environments
Open Networking Software Leverages Open Hardware Standards to Support High-Performance Enterprise and Service Provider Networks
Belmont, CA – 2008-03-17 05:00:00 – Vyatta, the leader in Linux-based networking, today confirmed its open source networking software scales to 10 Gigabit Ethernet environments, providing enterprises and service providers relying on high-performance networks with a robust, open alternative to expensive proprietary routers. Scalability tests were performed using IBM servers and 10 Gigabit Ethernet cards from Neterion.
"Vyatta is bringing breakthrough scalability and performance to open solutions based on commodity hardware and 10 Gigabit Ethernet networking that enables substantial cost benefits over proprietary networking systems," said Leonid Grossman, vice president of software engineering at Neterion. "Vyatta is doing for networking what Linux has done for operating systems."
The 10 Gigabit performance was achieved using open standard hardware, including an IBM System X3550 server and a Neterion Xframe E 10 Gigabit Ethernet card. Open solutions based on commodity hardware offer significant economic advantages for 10 Gigabit networking over proprietary systems.
"For high-performance network environments, Vyatta is introducing the beginning of the end of 'mainframe-type' pricing lockups," said Kelly Herrell, CEO of Vyatta. "Customers can buy entire 10 Gigabit-configured x86 devices for a small fraction of what proprietary vendors charge just for the card. Vyatta now brings this economic advantage to high-performance networks for enterprises and service providers. With more than 100,000 downloads over the past year, our customers are already delighted with the performance and economics of Vyatta software. We are excited to bring this advanced scalability to our rapidly-growing user base."
Neterion has joined the Vyatta Ready partner program. The Vyatta Ready partner program has created an ecosystem around the company's secure, open-source routing solution to accelerate industry-wide adoption. The program targets value-added resellers (VARs) and independent hardware and software vendors (IHVs and ISVs). The program assures users that Vyatta Ready products and services have been tested and approved to work well with the Vyatta software.
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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