Business 2.0/CNNMoney: The Black Box That Would Conquer Telecom

“At the San Francisco offices of Panorama Capital, two dozen
engineers, venture capitalists, and academics gathered around a
nondescript piece of hardware they all helped build. Then Allan
Leinwand, CEO of a stealthy Panorama-funded startup called Vyatta,
powered up the device, the world’s first open-source router. As one
of the programmers downloaded Red Hat Linux to his laptop by way of
the black box, the room erupted in handshakes and high fives.

“A few months after the unveiling on that October day, Vyatta’s
router is about to go into beta release, and it will likely hit the
market this summer. The machine runs on two Intel chips, but far
more noteworthy is its software, known as XORP, or extensible open
router platform. The versatile open-source application can direct
data traffic for a giant corporation as easily as it can manage a
home Wi-Fi network…”

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