Vyatta's Dave Roberts to Speak at Interop Las Vegas on Routing's Mid-Life Crisis


BELMONT, CA--(Marketwire - May 13, 2009) - Dave Roberts, vice president of strategy for Vyatta, will participate at this year's Interop conference held in Las Vegas on May 17-21. In a session led by Jim Metzler of Ashton, Metzler & Associates, Dave will be joined by representatives from Cisco and Juniper for a session titled "Is Routing Undergoing a Mid-Life Crisis?"

Session:

According to industry pundits, there is a need for a next generation of routing as business initiatives drive the need for much higher levels of performance, security and availability. They also claim that routers must become more energy efficient and provide functionality, such as multicast and deep packet inspection. In this session, panelists from the leading router companies will discuss the business initiatives that are driving the need for enhanced routing functionality and explain exactly how routers provide that functionality.

Where:

Interop Las Vegas at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino

Visit Vyatta at booth #861

When:

Thursday, May 21, 2009, 10:15 - 11:15am

Contact: Andrew Evangelista, Eastwick Communications, (650) 480-4056, andrew@eastwick.com

About Vyatta

Vyatta builds commercially supported, open-source networking solutions that provide an alternative to over-priced, inflexible products from proprietary vendors. Our customers are smarter, better looking, and drive much nicer cars than purchasers of big-name products. Vyatta customers know that Vyatta's Linux-based router, firewall and VPN software gives them a level of control unavailable from proprietary solutions. Vyatta customers are thought leaders who recognize the benefits of flexible deployment options -- x86 hardware, blade servers, virtualization -- of freedom to integrate applications of their choice, and of the economic and performance advantages of commodity hardware and components. For more info, visit http://www.vyatta.com.

Contact Information: Press Contact: Andrew Evangelista Eastwick Communications 650.480.4056 Andrew@eastwick.com