Vyatta: A High-End Linux-Based Firewall and Router | Linux Today

Vyatta: A High-End Linux-Based Firewall and Router

Written By
SJV
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
Sep 6, 2007

[ Thanks to Steven J.
Vaughan-Nichols
for this link. ]

“Let’s play a Linux word association game. Red Hat is to
Microsoft as Vyatta is to Cisco.

“‘Vyatta,’ you ask? This small, San Mateo, Calif.-based business
is trying to show that you can use open source to deliver
high-level networking services on a competitive basis with network
giant Cisco in the same way that Red Hat showed it could be done
with Microsoft’s server business…”

Complete
Story

SJV

Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

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