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Wednesday 26 March 2008, 12:26 PM
Signs of life in open source routers
I continue to believe network hardware could show some of the strongest benefits from open source. Vyatta, the company leading the charge on open network hardware has a couple of news announcements that bear this out - a low-cost small business router and tests that show it leaving Cisco in the dust, performance-wise.
The Vyatta 514 includes routing, firewall, and VPN in a small box costing $697. The company claims its systems offer a big saving over proprietary routers - and last week tested the claim on its larger product, announcing results from the Tolly Group that show its routers, which cost a quarter the price of Cisco's 7200, perform two to three times better.
Vyatta calculates a 10x performance advantage from this, and says it blows apart the myth that you need the magic of proprietary hardware to get good network performance.
The Vyatta 514 includes routing, firewall, and VPN in a small box costing $697. The company claims its systems offer a big saving over proprietary routers - and last week tested the claim on its larger product, announcing results from the Tolly Group that show its routers, which cost a quarter the price of Cisco's 7200, perform two to three times better.
Vyatta calculates a 10x performance advantage from this, and says it blows apart the myth that you need the magic of proprietary hardware to get good network performance.
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