Open Networking Solutions Guide

Industry Praise Software-Based Network OS for Physical, Virtual & Cloud Networking
Vyatta is disrupting the networking industry by delivering a software-based, open-source, network
“Vyatta is certainly the headline operating system that is platform-agnostic, running on a wide-range standard x86 hardware as
name behind open-source net- well as common virtualization and cloud computing platforms. Vyatta software provides a com-
working” plete enterprise-class routing and security feature set capable of scaling from DSL to 20Gbps
Mark Fabbi
throughput at a fraction of the cost of proprietary solutions. Thousands of physical and virtual
Gartner Inc. Analyst
infrastructures around the world, from small enterprise to Fortune 500 customers, are connected
and protected by Vyatta.

The Power of Open Networking

Open and flexible networking is a requirement for today’s evolving network. For the first time in
“Vyatta’s open system running on
two decades the industry is experiencing platform shifts that are dictating that networking be
standard hardware not only can
scale better in enterprise and
delivered as a software solution.
service provider edge deploy-
ments, but it also delivers enough » Network edge: Special-purpose devices are giving way to multi-function, integrated solutions.
headroom for expansion” » Data center: Infrastructure shifting to the cloud requires flexible networking and security.
The Tolly Group

Vyatta’s software-based approach to networking embraces these trends and is a superior

alternative to proprietary hardware-based devices.

The New Network Requirements

“Enterprise: Open source routing
Features Vyatta Network OS Cisco IOS
should be on your radar, especial-
Multifunction Yes Yes
ly if you are budget-challenged;
(Vyatta’s) added security features Hardware Scalability Seamless across x86 Cores Cisco Limited
only make it more important that
Software Performance Unlimited Platform Limited
you evaluate the options.”
John Burke Virtual Machine Availability Yes No
Principal Research Analyst (VMware, Xen, XenServer, KVM)
Nemertes Research Open Management API Yes No

Integration into Edge Devices Yes No

Cloud Readiness Yes No

“Vyatta, has taught Cisco and the
market that a networking box is The Vyatta Advantage
really nothing but a computer with
software.”
Network Right-Sizing: As a single network OS that scales up and down to meet your require-
Dana Blankenhorn
ments, Vyatta puts the freedom in your hands to right-size your network as needed. Using readily
ZDNet
available off-the-shelf systems and components, Vyatta breaks the “box lock” model of proprietary
hardware vendors and allows you to drive as little or as much performance as your network
requires.
Hardware Price/Performance: Standards have turned networking into a server workload.
“..anything you want to do with a Today x86 hardware can easily outperform proprietary network devices at a small fraction of the
standard Cisco router, you can do cost. And the x86 universe means that faster systems at lower price are always on the horizon.
with Vyatta for the most part, and
you don’t have to worry about the Virtualization: Vyatta gives you the optional power of running networking functions as a virtual
various Cisco IOS licenses.” machine. Whether it’s VMs at the network edge or VMs in the cloud datacenter, Vyatta radically
David Davis(CCIE, CCNA, CCNP) increases your infrastructure flexibility and produces a substantially higher ROI than proprietary
TechRepublic solutions.
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The Vyatta Network OS
The Vyatta network operating system is a scalable, integrated, enterprise-class networking solution that delivers advanced rout-
ing and network security functionality for physical, virtual and cloud networking environments. The Vyatta network OS includes
dynamic routing, stateful firewall, VPN support, threat protection, traffic management and more in a package that is optimized
to take advantage of multicore x86 processing power, common hypervisor platforms and emerging cloud architectures. All fea-
tures are configured through Vyatta’s familiar, networking-centric CLI, web-based GUI or third party management systems using
the Vyatta Remote Access API.

Vyatta Software Highlights:

Network Connectivity Secure Connectivity IPv6 Compatibility
At the core of the Vyatta system is a complex Establish secure site-to-site VPN tunnels Vyatta Subscription Edition software is the
routing engine with full support of IPv4 and IPv6 with standards-based IPSec VPN between only software-based routing and security
dynamic routing protocols (BGP, OSPF, RIP). two or more Vyatta systems or any IPSec solution with proven IPv6 functionality and
Vyatta systems include support for 802.11 wire- VPN device. Or provide secure network ac- interoperability, ensuring a future-proof in-
less, Serial WAN Interfaces and a wide variety of vestment in a solution that offers a simplified
cess to remote users via Vyatta’s SSL-based
migration path from IPv4 to IPv6.
10/100 thru 10Gb Ethernet NICs. OpenVPN functionality.
Administration & Authentication
Firewall Protection Traffic Management
Vyatta systems can be managed through
The Vyatta firewall features IPv4/IPv6 state- The Vyatta system provides a wide variety of our familiar network-centric command line
ful packet inspection to intercept and inspect QoS queuing mechanisms that can be ap- interface, web-based GUI or through exter-
network activity and protect your critical data. plied to inbound traffic and outbound traffic nal management systems using Vyatta’s
Vyatta advanced firewall capabilities include for identifying and prioritizing applications Remote Access API. All network manage-
stateful failover, zone and time-based firewall- and traffic flows. ment sessions can be securely managed
ing, P2P filtering and more. using SSHv2, RADIUS or TACACS+.
High Availability
Content and Threat Protection Mission critical networks can deploy Vyatta Monitoring and Reporting
Vyatta systems offer an additional level of proac- with the confidence that high availability and Vyatta systems present complete log-
tive threat protection with integrated secure web system redundancy can be achieved through ging and diagnostics information that can
filtering and advanced intrusion prevention rules a number of industry standard failover and be monitored using in industry standard
available as subscription-based Vyatta PLUS configuration synchronization mechanisms. toolsets such as SNMP, Netflow, Syslog,
services. Wireshark and more.

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Product Highlights Vyatta Products
Software Subscriptions:
» Complete Routing & Security OS Vyatta Subscription Edition Software
» x86 price, performance, availability Vyatta Subscription Edition software enables customers to deploy routing and security solu-
» Easy Upgrade Path tions using standard x86-based hardware of their choosing, ensuring networks will always meet
performance requirements. Vyatta open-source software delivers the unique advantage of allow-
Virtual Appliances:
ing customers to scale networks from the simplest LAN deployments to large BGP WAN edge
» Optimized for Xen, XenServer,
VMware ESX, Redhat KVM configurations using a single software package. - starting at $747.
» Remote Access Cloud API
» Layer 2 Cloud Bridging
Subscription Edition for Virtualization
Vyatta 514 Appliance: Vyatta Subscription Edition for network virtualization is designed for users adding Vyatta’s rout-
» Four 10/100 Mbps Ethernet ing and network security functionality to Citrix XenServer, VMware, Xen and Redhat KVM virtual
» One PCI-32 Expansion Slot environments. Vyatta network virtualization software includes integrated Xen para-virtualization,
» Support for ADSL & T1/E1 Xen tools and open-vm-tools to deliver optimized performance for virtualized datacenters and
» Wire Speed T1/E1 with VPN cloud computing environments. Subscriptions are priced per software instance, per support level
» 70,000 PPS performance
requirement, per year - starting at $933

Vyatta 2501 Appliance: Vyatta 514 Appliance

» Two 10/100/1000 Mbps The Vyatta 514 is ideally suited to connecting small and branch offices to the Internet or private
Ethernet
networks. With integrated routing, firewall, and VPN features, and support for WAN hardware
» One PCI-X Expansion Slot
interfaces from ADSL to T1 speeds, the Vyatta 514 can be used as a component of a world-wide
» One PCIe x8 Expansion Slot
network and at the same time provide unmatched data security to ensure your corporate data
» WAN Interfaces up to T3
stays private - starting at $797.
» LAN Interfaces up to 10GbE
Performance Model 514
» 500,000 PPS performance L3 Forwarding 70,000 PPS
VPN Forwarding 113 Mbps IPSec
Vyatta 2502 Appliance: Max VPN Tunnels 1500
» All 2501 features plus...
» High-availability RAID storage
» Dual-core processor for improved
Vyatta 2500 Series Appliances
small-packet forwarding and protocol Vyatta 2500 series appliances are optimized for medium to large enterprise connectivity, security
processing and protection. With tightly integrated routing and security features, and broad interface support
» 1,000,000 PPS performance up to 10Gbps, Vyatta Series 2500 appliances offer unmatched price, performance, and flexibility
for the enterprise network - starting at $2347.
Vyatta 3510 Appliance:
» up to 8 x 10 GbE ports
Performance Model 2501 Model 2502
Layer 3 Forwarding 500,000 PPS 1,000,000 PPS
» up to 20 x 1 GbE ports
VPN Forwarding 420 Mbps 515 Mbps
» High-availability RAID storage Max VPN Tunnels 2000 3000
» Quad-core processor
» Redundant Hot Swap Power
» 2,000,000 pps throughput
Vyatta 3500 Series Appliances
The Vyatta 3500 Series appliances combine Vyatta open networking software with high-perfor-
Vyatta 3520 Appliance: mance hardware to deliver industry-leading price/performance for large enterprise and service
» All 3510 features plus... provider deployments requiring multi-gigabit per second routing and security. - starting at $4595.
» 3GB Memory Performance Model 3510 Model 3520
» 3,000,000 pps throughput Layer 3 Forwarding 2,000,000 pps 3,000,000 pps
» up to 8000+ VPN tunnels VPN Forwarding 700 Mbps 900 Mbps
Max VPN Tunnels 6000 8000
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Customer Testimonials Vyatta PLUS Services
Vyatta PLUS services are subscription-based enhanced security solutions available as add-on
services to the Vyatta Subscription Edition software and appliances.
“Vyatta has allowed us to ‘go virtual’
in every respect...If we had used
VyattaGuard Secure Web Filtering
physical network infrastructure for VyattaGuard web filtering adds protection and policy enforcement to Vyatta Subscription Edition
this, we would have sacrificed a networking software and appliances using an advanced Web 2.0 content inspection engine for:
lot of manageability and driven up
our costs. I can recommend Vyatta » HR Compliance (pornography, hate speech)
whole-heartedly to any organization » Productivity (social media, shopping)
that is looking for a robust network- » Liability / Parental Controls (violence, weapons, nudity)
ing and security solution that plays » Managing Bandwidth Consumption (p2p, streaming media)
well in a virtualized environment.” » Web-based Threat Mitigation (phishing / malware)

Vyatta Sourcefire VRT IPS Rules

Vyatta’s Sourcefire VRT based network intrusion prevention and detection system provides
integration of the industry-leading Snort rules used by security professionals worldwide.
Rather than traditional exploit-based signatures, which provide no protection against
“Vyatta is able to provide the net- unknown threats, Vyatta PLUS Sourcefire VRT rules:
work services and secure connec-
tivity that Dell GIS Cloud requires » Provide protection against any possible exploitation of a vulnerability
in a package that addresses the » Protect customers before exploits are released
virtualization, commoditization and » Trigger reliably, without false positive and false negatives
cost-benefit requirements of cloud » Allow for a manageable number of updates and rules
computing.”
Vyatta Professional Services
Vyatta Services are designed to help customers simplify design, installation, configuration and
management of Vyatta subscription edition software and Vyatta appliances. From packaged in-
stallation and upgrade services to completely custom consulting agreements, the technical team
“I needed a dependable, feature- at Vyatta has the knowledge and experience to get your Vyatta-based network up and running
rich routing solution... I don’t want
and maintaining optimal performance.
to pay for a bunch of unnecessary
features, and I don’t want to waste Quick Start Configuration
limited data center rack space on
The Quick Start Configuration Service is designed to help simplify customer deployment of
an underutilized piece of hardware.”
common routing and firewalling configurations. Customers complete a simple questionnaire,
and Vyatta’s technical experts generate a configuration that can be loaded onto your system.

Professional Consulting Services

The Vyatta professional services team also delivers completely custom consulting services rang-
ing from network design and implementation planning to live training.

Software Upgrade Service

“The number one reason we went
Vyatta’s Software Upgrade Service allows you to leverage Vyatta’s expert technical team to expe-
with Vyatta was the flexibility and
dite software upgrades.
the peace of mind knowing that if
we came up with an issue, we’d
Vyatta University Training
have lots of avenues to address it
from.”
Vyatta has created a curriculum of training courses that cover basic and advanced topics related
to Vyatta networking software. Vyatta University courses are designed to teach users of Vyatta
community and subscription edition software the essential skills to design and deploy networks.
Over 20 courses available as self-paced online and instructor-led training.

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Awards Vyatta Subscription Services
Vyatta software and appliance customers get acces to Vyatta subscription services package that
encompasses ongoing engineering, technical support and services. A Vyatta subscription includes
priority access to all patches, bug fixes and software releases as well as proactive notification of
InfoWorld’s annual Bossies recognize the
best free and open source software the
security alerts. Vyatta customers are entitled to access to the Vyatta technical support team (up
world has to offer to businesses, IT profes- to 24x7), an introductory set of Vyatta University self-paced training courses and a comprehensive
sionals, and productive individuals who rely
on computers to get work done. online support portal that includes:

» Software releases, upgrade procedures and release notes

» Product documentation, including command references and deployment guides
» Knowledge Base with hundreds of entries covering deployments, known issues, errors, etc.
Red Herring 100 Award is given to the top » Bug reporting / tracking and Enhancement request system
100 private technology companies based
in North America. Vyatta was recognized for
driving innovation in open-source networking Vyatta support options include Premium level 24x7 emergency support with priority SLA and 1
with its enterprise-class, open-source net-
working solutions that include router, firewall hour response time, Enterprise12x5 business hour telephone support and basic Professional level
and VPN. functionality. support for customers requiring web-based ticketing only.
Subscription Plan Details
Service Description Professional Enterprise Premium Subscription
Subscription Subsciption

Kelly Herrell named to 50 Most Powerful DOCUMENTATION AND TRAINING

People in Networking - Herrell wants Vyatta Expert Documentation Included Included Included
to be to Cisco what Red Hat is to Microsoft;
that is, an open source thorn in the side of Extensive Knowledge base Included Included Included
a market-dominating incumbent. In Herrell’s Vyatta University Training N/A Included (4 Courses) Included (4 Courses)
case, he’s pricking the giant with an open
source router. Software Updates & MAINTENANCE
Open Source Code Always Always Always
Subscription Only Features Yes Yes Yes
Vyatta PLUS Features Available Available Available
Compiled Binaries for All Code Releases All Code Releases All Code Releases
CRN recognizes Vyatta as an emerging - Bug Fixes Yes Yes Yes
vendor that is packing more innovative - Patches Yes Yes Yes
technology at a better price for customers
and putting significantly more cash in your - Enhancements Yes Yes Yes
pockets. - Security Alerts Yes Yes Yes
Upgrade & Patch Releases All All All
Vyatta TAC Support
About Vyatta Normal Phone Hours None - Online Only 5x12, 6a-6p PST 5x12, 6a-6p PST
Vyatta is disrupting the networking excluding Vyatta holidays 7x24 Emergency
industry by delivering a software- Authorized Callers N/A 2 per site Unlimited
based, open-source, network
Web-based Ticketing Included Included Included
operating system that is portable to
standard x86 hardware as well as Case SLA Next Business Day Severity-based Priority
common virtualization and cloud Vyatta Systems Packaging and Pricing
computing platforms. Vyatta software
provides a complete enterprise-class Vyatta software is sold as an annual subscription that requires an entitled subscription for each
routing and security feature set ca- software instance required for production network use. Subscription pricing tiers are defined by the
pable of scaling from DSL to 20Gbps
performance at a fraction of the cost
specified number of processor cores for the target system that Vyatta software will be installed on
of proprietary solutions. Thousands and the desired level of technical support response times.
of physical and virtual infrastructures
around the world, from small enter- Vyatta virtual appliances are not directly dependent on the number of processor cores of the host
prise to Fortune 500 customers, are
connected and protected by Vyatta.
server platform for performance, Vyatta Subscription Edition for virtual environments is simply
priced per instance and on support level requirements.

Vyatta Inc. Vyatta appliances are a pre-packaged hardware and software solution that are sold based on sup-
1301 Shoreway Rd. Suite 200
Belmont, CA 94002
port level requirements and require an annual subscription fee for software maintenance.
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