Vyatta in a Box

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

DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS

 

MEMORY

 

STORAGE

 

CORES

 

1-4 100Mb Interfaces
1-4 T1/E1 Interfaces
1 Routing Protocol
up to 100 Routes, Basic Firewalling

512MB

 

2GB

 

1 Core

 

2-6 Interfaces (combo of 1GBE - T3)
Up to 2 Routing Protocols
Up to 10,000 Routes
Firewall, NAT

1GB

 

2GB+

 

1-2 Cores

 

6-10 Interfaces (combo of 1GBE - T3)
2 or more Routing Protocols
Full Internet Routing Table
Firewall, NAT, VPN, IPS

2GB

 

2GB+

 

2-4 Cores

 

10 or more 1GBE or T1/T3 Interfaces
10GBE Interfaces
2 or more routing protocols
Full Internet Routing Table from Multiple BGP Peers
Complex Firewall, NAT, VPN, IPS

4GB

 

4GB+

 

4-8 Cores