Vyatta, which sells the open source router targeted at Cisco, on Monday said its software scales to 10 Gigabit Ethernet, and costs as much as 75% less than a functionally comparable Cisco 
7200 series router. Vyatta says its Linux-based routing software has been downloaded more than 100,000 times over the past year.
Vyatta in its press release Monday touted a Tolly Group test that pitted its router software on a 2.66 GHz quad-core IBM System X 3550 server against the Cisco 7200. According to the test report:
* Vyatta supports a BGP route table size of 4.5 million routes, 3X more than the Cisco 7204-G1 and 1.5X more than the 7204-G2.
* Vyatta delivers a BGP convergence time that is more than 3X faster than the Cisco 7204-G1 and 2X faster than the 7204-G2.
* Vyatta operates at Layer 3 wire speed across three Gigabit Ethernet ports in full mesh when forwarding 512-byte frames or higher, while Cisco routers failed to achieve wire speed.
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