Network World: What is a router?
Network World’s Jim Duffy includes Vyatta in a discussion of what a router is: “Vyatta, for example, runs Linux-based routing code on x86 hardware. It also runs several other open source network applications on the standard hardware, including firewall, VPN concentration, virtualization, address management, traffic management and intrusion prevention that scales from the branch office to the service provider edge.”
“In the old days, vendors developed a new box around a new function; we’re now seeing a move to bring all of these functions together,” says Dave Roberts, vice president of strategy and marketing at Vyatta. “It doesn’t make sense every place in the network to plop down three different boxes, or four or five and daisy chain them altogether. It makes sense to still have all these functions but as pieces of a larger system that plays in different places in the network — more of a general purpose device that supports a lot of functionality.”
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