Green Data Cabinets Feature Editorial

Vyatta has reportedly launched the Vyatta (News - Alert) 3500 series of appliances. These devices offer the routing, firewall and VPN functionality required for large datacenters and service provider borders. Vyatta’s routing and security software scales from the branch office to the service provider edge using standard x86-based Intel/AMD (News - Alert) hardware and components.

 

The Vyatta 3500 Series appliances combine Vyatta open networking software with high-performance hardware to deliver industry-leading price/performance for enterprise and service provider deployments that require 10-20Gbps routing and security. The Vyatta 3500 series supports a complete set of features and applications required to connect, protect and optimize application-intensive network environments. The Vyatta 3500 series open network appliances are priced from $4,595.

 

According to Tom McCafferty, director of marketing for Vyatta, the Vyatta 3500 Series appliances are a continuation of Vyatta's drive into the most demanding enterprise and service provider networks. The scalability of Vyatta's open networking operating system when combined with Intel's newest generation of processors lets Vyatta push through the 10 Gbps barrier of routing and security at one-twentieth the cost of comparable Cisco (News - Alert) solutions.

 

Based on the Intel Xeon processor 5500 series with quad-core technology, the Vyatta 3500 series are compact 2U, energy efficient appliances that offer hardware redundancy through integrated hardware/software RAID and redundant hot swap power supplies to ensure maximum reliability and uptime. The appliances include four onboard Gigabit Ethernet ports and 4PCI Express expansion slots to support up to 20 x 1 Gbps ports or 8 x 10 Gbps ports. Offered in two models, Vyatta 3510 and Vyatta 3520, the appliances will support up to 20Gbps bidirectional throughput and over 3,000,000 packets per second forwarding performance.

 

The Vyatta 3500 series of appliances deliver 20 Gbps bidirectional performance. When Vyatta's open networking software is combined with Intel's (News - Alert) latest generation microarchitecture, Vyatta 3500 appliances will deliver 10 Gbps networking capability at a very low price when compared with industry alternatives.

 

Vyatta delivers advanced routing and security in a software-based network OS that scales from the branch office to the service provider edge. Vyatta has decoupled networking software from proprietary hardware. This lets users leverage the price and performance advantages of standard x86-based hardware and components, as well as Citrix XenServer and VMWare virtual or cloud environments.