Comments on: How Vyatta buy helps Brocade in a software-defined world

By: Christopher William Crawley

Christopher William Crawley — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 11:21:03 +0000

its a great deal for our Apollios would love to get Brocades insight between 01012013> in Cali when i journey to SILVALLEY for the Apollios.com build.BTW great youtube vid on ethernet fab,perhaps we may have the product they are looking for~CWC

By: Anon

Anon — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 02:24:48 +0000

The major Achilles heel of Vyatta is the lack of multicast support (which is considered mandatory for a true, full IPv6 deployment) and policy based routing (which a first go at it was only now just introduced in Vyatta 6.5 released this month). There are higher end things like MPLS which are also still not supported, but until both multicast and PBR are supported and working Vyatta will remain the 80% solution. Which may be enough for Brocade.

By: behind the mirror

behind the mirror — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 13:42:09 +0000

Vyatta, A Brocade Company – A Message from Kelly Herrell
Nov 5, 2012 by VyattaInc

also the Luddites are also out in force it seems about the “Nov 1, 2012 – 11:03AM
Facebook, AMD, HP and others team up to plan the ARM data center takeover” and its related news elsewhere.

but then they don’t seem to even recall the last 3 months where
cavium announced they were to Reshape Next Generation Cloud and Data Centers with their latest ARMv8 64bit architecture licensee, and their “Project Thunder” ARM/MIPS 2 to 48-cores SoC processors with industry-leading performance, scalability and integration based on the MIPS® and ARM architectures.

http://www.cavium.com/processor_Project_Thunder.html
August 1, 2012

and forgot all about the The ARM® CoreLink™ CCN-504 Cache Coherent Network offers scaling to 16 processor cores, can deliver up to one Terabit of usable system bandwidth per second, and its CoreLink DMC-520 provides a high-bandwidth interface to shared off-chip memory, such as DDR3, DDR3L and DDR4 DRAM. Enterprise class RAS (Reliability, Availability and Serviceability) features.

By: behind the mirror

behind the mirror — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 12:44:42 +0000

“Brent Salisbury:having APIs exposed north of a controller brought scoff and disdain not long ago.”

only from those modern day Luddites , http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/PRluddites1.JPG

“Eric Vanderveer:did you hear about them keeping the open source?” funny enough where no one seems to look directly in front of you in this case
http://www.vyatta.org/node/15115
“…In summary, Vyatta and Brocade will continue to be strong supporters of the Vyatta open source community and we thank you for your continuing support.”

By: Eric Vanderveer

Eric Vanderveer — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 18:31:55 +0000

@Steve where did you hear about them keeping the open source?

By: sochatte

sochatte — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 03:47:21 +0000

SDN != Openflow;
SDN > Openflow

By: Brent Salisbury

Brent Salisbury — Mon, 05 Nov 2012 16:52:50 +0000

Good early analysis. Nice to see even the aforementioned cynical outcome is light years ahead of what it was even a year ago. having APIs exposed north of a controller brought scoff and disdain not long ago.

By: Steve Noble

Steve Noble — Mon, 05 Nov 2012 16:42:02 +0000

In my recent work Testing Vyatta, I found their engineering team to be very good. Their product was solid and behaved as expected. For Brocade it’s another way to get their name out publicly and show that they are not just a SAN company anymore.

Congratulations to all, it’s certainly a good pairing and with the announced intentions to keep the support and contributions to Open Source going, it keeps a positive light on where things are going.

By: david

david — Mon, 05 Nov 2012 16:28:06 +0000

SDN business is far beyond what ONF currently runs

By: Greg Knieriemen

Greg Knieriemen — Mon, 05 Nov 2012 16:03:59 +0000

Interesting… Brocade buys Vyatta for SDN, but Vyatta isn’t a member of the Open Networking Foundation which is the heart of SDN.