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Vyatta Shatters 10 Gigabit Price/Performance Curve With New Appliances
Powerful New Hardware Based on Intel(R) Architecture Makes Open Networking Viable for High-End Datacenters and the Service Provider Edge
| Source: Vyatta
BELMONT, CA--(Marketwire - January 12, 2010) - Vyatta,
the leader in open networking and network virtualization, today announced
the Vyatta 3500 series of appliances. Delivering 20 gigabit-per-second
(Gbps) bidirectional performance, these devices offer the routing, firewall
and VPN functionality required for large datacenters and Service Provider
borders. By combining Vyatta's award-winning open networking software with
Intel's latest generation microarchitecture, codenamed Nehalem, Vyatta 3500
appliances deliver 10 Gbps networking capability at one-twentieth the price
of proprietary alternatives, radically altering the price/performance
landscape of the entire industry.
Intel recently used Vyatta software to benchmark the power of their latest
generation microarchitecture for networking. The public results state,
"The revolutionary performance gains from Intel multi-core processors can
be applied to data plane, control plane and service application workloads,
producing impressive results." The benchmark demonstrated clearly that
"one Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series with quad-core technology can
readily process 20 Gbps traffic and still have CPU capacity." It also
notes, "Solutions can scale by just adding processor cores and network
adapters."
Designed to address the performance and availability requirements of large
networks, the Vyatta 3500 series supports a complete set of features and
applications required to connect, protect and optimize today's
application-intensive network environments. From enterprise and service
provider WAN routing and security to high-performance firewall, VPN and
intrusion protection at the branch or datacenter, the 3500 series offer a
flexible, scalable appliance-based open networking solution -- all at a
very small fraction of the cost of a comparable Cisco offering.
"Vyatta 3500 Series appliances are a continuation of Vyatta's clear drive
into the most demanding enterprise and service provider networks," said Tom
McCafferty, director of marketing for Vyatta. "The sheer scalability of
Vyatta's open networking operating system combined with Intel's newest
generation of processors allows us to push through the 10 Gbps barrier of
routing and security at one-twentieth the cost of comparable Cisco
solutions. There is no clearer evidence that networking can enjoy the same
economic benefits delivered by the x86 ecosystem, which dwarfs that of any
proprietary hardware vendor."
The Vyatta 3500 series are compact 2U, energy efficient appliances that
offer hardware redundancy via integrated hardware / software RAID and
redundant hot swap power supplies to ensure maximum reliability and uptime.
The appliances, based on the Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series with
quad-core technology, will be offered in two models (Vyatta 3510 and Vyatta
3520) supporting up to 20Gbps bidirectional throughput and over 3,000,000
packets per second forwarding performance.
Availability and Pricing
Vyatta 3500 series open network appliances will be available in January of
2010 with a starting price of $4,595.
Intel Solution Brief: "Intel® Xeon® Processor 5500 Series Router
Solution Integrating Services at the Edge" is available at
http://edc.intel.com/Download.aspx?id=2977&returnurl=/default.aspx
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, are connected and protected by Vyatta software and appliances. For
more information, please visit www.vyatta.com.
Intel and Intel Xeon are trademarks or registered trademarks of Intel in
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