However, Vyatta needs to take several significant steps before users take talk like that seriously. Though the bureaucracy of a major vendor isn't a stumbling block, the tiny size of the Vyatta community is. At the end of the day in open-source, the product is no better than those who are working on its code, and that number is much larger at a company like Cisco than it is with Vyatta and the small open-source routing community.
Businesses today want more than just a router, and they know they can get it from major networking vendors that consistently put innovative features into their equipment. That's why Vyatta wants to add support for VPN, wide area file services, multicasting and possibly IP telephony. However, they talked about adding that support when they announced the company in March, and so far none of it has been included.
Meanwhile, traditional networking companies make their products easier to deploy by bundling hardware and software together instead of making customers install the router operating system themselves onto an old computer that's sitting unused in a closet somewhere. That's why Vyatta intends to launch a hardware appliance sometime this summer.
Version 1.0 of Vyatta's software can be downloaded for free. Subscriptions, which include software upgrades, maintenance, and support, cost between $497 and $647 a year depending on the level of support.
Subsea cable alternatives can provide a level of comfort for those concerned about disruptions. Realistically, they will continue to play a small, but critical role in the short term.
Maintaining existing network infrastructures often incurs huge technical debt before newer technologies are adopted over time.
Amid ongoing regional uncertainties, telecom infrastructure in the Middle East has expand to include terrestrial low-latency network infrastructure, which offers resilience and agility in navigating political complexities without relying solely on undersea networks.
