What Vyatta does is pretty cool. And they have also been giving back to open source community some of the source they write fixes to. They are trying to make Linux look and feel like a cisco router. I have a lot of respect for their effort.
But the bad is.... its priced wrong. They are going high end, targeting a coporate user that might have one or two routers. They make their money on support contracts and their fees are very expensive. You pay per router, per processor, per year. And at $600-$900 each./yr or something like that. Then there is the free community version, but..... past history showed they have policies to discourage against using it commercially based on what they update. For example, it was not possible to upgrade from one version to another, not to long ago w/ community version. You had to wipe, reload, and hand re-type the config from scratch. Could you imagine how horrid that would be if it was your Core ISP router that you needed to upgrade? Dont expect to get all your routers access to the update source tree with one license. When I priced it out, from an ISP's perspective, Imagestream was way more affordable for a commercial supported product, and also a somewhat open platform, and of course Mikrotik, although a closed platform, is way more affordable. Tom DeReggi RapidDSL & Wireless, Inc IntAirNet- Fixed Wireless Broadband ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom Sharples" <tsharp...@qorvus.com> To: "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org> Sent: Friday, April 02, 2010 8:44 PM Subject: [WISPA] Vyatta? > Time to update our ancient and overloaded main router. I'm intrigued by > Vyatta > > and am wondering if anyone out here has any experience - good or bad - > with them. > > Thanks, > > Tom S. > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
