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Vyatta claims to cream Cisco in tests

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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