Vyatta Community Edition 5 Boosts Network Security and Performance

BELMONT, CA--(Marketwire - March 9, 2009) - Vyatta, the leader in open networking, today announced Vyatta Community Edition 5 (VC5), the latest release of its routing and security software. VC5 greatly expands Vyatta's security feature set, adding SSL-based OpenVPN, intrusion prevention system (IPS), and web URL filtering among many other improvements. The addition of these unified threat management (UTM) capabilities continues to widen the value gap between open networking and over-priced proprietary appliances, and is validated by tens of thousands of Vyatta downloads every month.

For the majority of today's networking projects, Vyatta consistently outperforms proprietary networking solutions and offers users an average cost savings of 50 to 80 percent. As IT professionals and network administrators around the globe are seeking affordable networking alternatives, they are finding that Vyatta delivers the features, performance, and services they need without the severe price-penalty of proprietary offerings.

"SCS believes standardizing on Vyatta systems can deliver the performance, scalability and reliability that we demand for our IT enterprise at much more favorable pricing than proprietary products we might have chosen," said Jerry Keene, senior systems analyst at SCS Engineers. "We believe Vyatta products will give us the very significant benefits of open source, open standards while at the same time giving us advanced routing, firewalling, and VPN technologies fully comparable to and even surpassing in flexibility and compatibility proprietary solutions on the market. We particularly like Vyatta's new SSL-based OpenVPN technology which we have implemented in one of our offices, and intend to leverage across our enterprise."

For channel partners, VC5 provides an increasingly popular, innovative routing and security technology that delivers clear financial and technical benefits to customers. "As an enterprise integrator of large scale voice, video, and data networks, EUS Networks relies on Vyatta's outstanding support and product quality to deliver uncompromising results," said Jeronimo Romero, CEO at EUS Networks. "Our customers are deploying a lot of VoIP networks, which introduces new networking requirements. Vyatta provides a secure, cost-effective network fabric for these applications. Compared with big-name proprietary products, Vyatta delivers more features and performance for a lower cost. That's good for both our customers and EUS Networks."

New features in VC5 include:

--  Improved VPN Security with OpenVPN -- VC5 supports OpenVPN, a popular
    open source VPN technology that provides high levels of site-to-site and
    remote access security and great interoperability even in the presence of
    NAT, which protocols like IPSec find challenging.
    
--  Enhanced Security via Intrusion Prevention -- Vyatta has also
    increased security by supporting intrusion protection system (IPS) and
    traffic filtering based on the inspection of traffic content. VC5 detects
    intrusion attempts using intrusion signatures and network-based detection
    mechanisms. VC5 also prevents malicious behavior by dropping packets
    associated with a detected attack.
    
--  Improved Performance with Web Caching and Ethernet Bonding -- VC5
    helps overall network performance by decreasing WAN bandwidth requirements
    using web caching. The system can now be configured to act as a web proxy
    server for web caching, eliminating the need to retrieve the same data
    multiple times for separate clients. Ethernet Bonding allows users to group
    multiple parallel Ethernet links together into larger virtual links,
    improving both performance and network reliability.
    
--  Support for Network Access Policies via URL Filtering -- Vyatta
    supports administration-based website blocking through URL filtering.
    Acting as a web proxy server for URL filtering, VC5 determines whether a
    requested URL is in a category marked for blocking, and if so returns an
    error message to the user.
    
--  New Web-based Graphical User Interface -- VC5 delivers a new web-based
    GUI using a familiar hierarchical configuration model. The GUI offers a
    full complement of configuration and monitoring capabilities, giving
    network administrators full access to VC5-based systems using a web
    browser.
    
--  Enhanced DNS Capabilities for SME Environments -- DNS forwarding and
    Dynamic DNS support allow small or branch offices to connect to the
    Internet with a minimum of extra infrastructure, reducing costs and
    complexity.
    
--  Improved Virtualization Performance -- Vyatta has worked well in
    virtualized environments for years, but VC5 adds optimized network
    interface and mass storage drivers that improve performance for VMware and
    Xen virtual machines.
    
--  Additional Hardware Support -- VC5 now supports RFC 1483 Bridged
    Ethernet over ADSL, Synchronous Serial Cards, wireless modems (3G), and
    RAID-1.
    
    

"Vyatta simply delivers more features and performance for a lower cost than any other networking vendor," said Kelly Herrell, CEO of Vyatta. "With five major software releases in three years, we have revolutionized the networking world while proprietary vendors have stood still. Thousands of networks have implemented Vyatta's proven routing and security solutions at affordable prices without sacrificing performance, reliability, or interoperability. Networks grow and expand, and budgets tighten daily. Vyatta is a perfect fit to resolve these competing objectives."

Availability and Pricing

Vyatta Community Edition 5 is available now and can be downloaded at www.vyatta.com. Commercial versions of Vyatta software are available starting at $747. Vyatta also provides a wide range of hardware appliances that run Vyatta software, starting at $797.

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 open 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.

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