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Vyatta, a maker of open source routers, this week unveiled a product for the small-to-midsize business market.
The Vyatta 514 is a networking appliance that combines the company's open source routing and security software with a small form factor hardware platform. The product features integrated routing, firewall and VPN capabilities to connect small businesses and branch offices to the Internet or private networks.
The Vyatta 514 appliance includes preinstalled software that offers Border Gateway Protocol, Open Shortest Path First and Routing Information Protocol routing protocols, integrated security features such as stateful firewall, network address translation, IPSec and Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol VPN, as well as VoIP QoS, high availability and WAN load balancing, Vyatta says. The appliance hardware includes four onboard 10/100Mbps Ethernet ports, and one PCI expansion slot to add network interfaces, including 10/100/1000 Ethernet, ADSL, and T-1/E-1.
The Vyatta 514 pricing starts at $697.
With Linux-based open source routing software on x86 commodity processing hardware, Vyatta claims it can offer functionally equivalent routing at a fraction of the cost of leading manufacturers. The company recently disclosed results of a study that it claims showed a 10-fold increase in price/performance over a Cisco 7200 router.
The company also recently announced that its software can scale to support 10Gigabit Ethernet connections.
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Don't compare this to the PIX 501...By Anonymous on March 27, 2008, 2:21 pmThe PIX series is old and near or at end-of-life now, so the better platform to compare the Vyatta to is the ASA 5505. The ASA has a pretty rich feature set and...
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I think is a compellingBy Anonymous on March 26, 2008, 10:24 amI think is a compelling product, but the primary audience for this is extremely price sensitive, so the price point needs to under $500 to get people to switch....
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Beats a PIX 501 hands-downBy Anonymous on March 25, 2008, 2:22 pmIt's a lot more scalable than the PIX 501. Essentially, it's like getting the PIX 501 with the unlimited user license, all the advanced encryption, etc. And I'm...
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How is this more compellingBy Anonymous on March 25, 2008, 9:26 amHow is this more compelling than buying a Cisco Pix 501? The price point isn't any better and the only feature that looks like it adds over the Pix is the routing...
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New Vyatta 514 appliance targets Cisco SMB and branch office spaceBy Brad Reese on March 25, 2008, 2:57 am Available now and priced at $697, Vyatta will introduce later today the Vyatta 514, a networking appliance that combines Vyatta’s open-source routing and security...
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