Vyatta in a Box
Installed on a server, Vyatta outperforms vastly more expensive routers from Cisco and Juniper.
Vyatta changes the economics of networking by enabling enterprises to build high performance network gear – from standard x86 servers. Installed on bare metal, Vyatta outperforms vastly more expensive routers from Cisco and Juniper. Vyatta can be installed on systems scaling from single core to multi-core processors for high-performance BGP routing or scalable VPN termination. Advancements in x86 processing power have proven that readily available multi-core systems can easily handle small packet processing and deep packet inspection up to 10Gbps.
- Scalability: Use readily available off-the-shelf x86 components and systems to drive as little or as much performance as your network requires today.
- Performance: The performance scale available from x86 hardware is continually expanding. Today’s multi-core servers have been proven to deliver up to 10Gbps routing throughput and faster processors are always on the horizon.
- Price: Leveraging open standards in software and hardware allows us to deliver a feature competitive routing and security product for enterprise, government, education and service provider networks at a fraction of the price of common proprietary hardware-based vendor systems.
| Basic Hardware Requirements for Building Vyatta Network OS Based Systems | |||
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DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS
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MEMORY
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STORAGE
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CORES
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1-4 100Mb Interfaces |
512MB
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2GB
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1 Core
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2-6 Interfaces (combo of 1GBE - T3) |
1GB
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2GB+
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1-2 Cores
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6-10 Interfaces (combo of 1GBE - T3) |
2GB
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2GB+
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2-4 Cores
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10 or more 1GBE or T1/T3 Interfaces |
4GB
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4GB+
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4-8 Cores
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