 Available now and priced at $697, Vyatta will introduce later today the Vyatta 514, a networking appliance that combines Vyatta’s open-source routing and security software with a small form factor hardware platform.
With integrated routing, firewall, and VPN features, the Vyatta 514 is ideally suited to connecting small businesses and branch offices to the Internet or private networks. The Vyatta 514 provides all the security, performance, and functionality of proprietary networking solutions at a fraction of the cost. |
 "With the Vyatta 514, small businesses and branch offices are no longer forced to live with the limitations of proprietary networking equipment," said Kelly Herrell - Chief Executive Officer of Vyatta.
"The Vyatta 514 provides a secure routing solution that delivers superior price/performance out of the box and has headroom to upgrade both hardware and software." "The combination of Vyatta open-source software and standards-based hardware allows the Vyatta 514 to offer unprecedented flexibility and scalability to small networks." |
The Vyatta 514 appliance includes preinstalled Vyatta software that offers industry standard routing protocols (BGP, OSPF, RIP) and integrated security features (stateful firewall, NAT, IPSec and PPTP VPN) as well as VoIP QoS, high availability, WAN load balancing and more.
The appliance hardware includes four onboard 10/100 Mbps Ethernet ports, and one PCI expansion slot to add commonly used network interfaces, including 10/100/1000 Mbps Ethernet, ADSL, and T1/E1.
All Vyatta appliances also include Vyatta subscription services.
Vyatta 514 Technical Specifications:
How attractive do YOU find the price point and features of the Vyatta 514?
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How is this more compelling
How is this more compelling than buying a Cisco Pix 501? The price point isn't any better and the only feature that looks like it adds over the Pix is the routing features.... I don't think this is convincing enough to make the switch.
Beats a PIX 501 hands-down
It's a lot more scalable than the PIX 501. Essentially, it's like getting the PIX 501 with the unlimited user license, all the advanced encryption, etc. And I'm betting it performs faster. The PIX 501 can't even keep up with a modern DSL link when running with encryption.
I think is a compelling
I think is a compelling product, but the primary audience for this is extremely price sensitive, so the price point needs to under $500 to get people to switch.
Don't compare this to the PIX 501...
The PIX series is old and near or at end-of-life now, so the better platform to compare the Vyatta to is the ASA 5505. The ASA has a pretty rich feature set and is quite compelling. Also, the Vyatta software is missing a *lot* of debugging and show commands that are critical for trouble shooting problems, so that alone makes it a non-starter for me.