Brocade strengthens NFV Product Portfolio with Vyatta 5600 vRouter

Expanding its product portfolio further, Brocade has announced Brocade Vyatta5600 vRouter. As the first virtual router for telco-class networks, the Brocade Vyatta 5600 is up to 40 times faster than competitive virtual routing products.

The latest network-centric x86 servers deliver outstanding packet processing capabilities and are increasingly populated with10GbE Network Interface Cards (NICs) to accommodate data traffic growth.

Kelly Herrell, VP and GM, Software Networking Business at Brocade said, In proof of concept tests with large carriers, we are seeing a CapEx savings potential of 90 percent or more when replacing purpose built hardware with a high performance x86 server and the Brocade Vyatta vRouter. This system architecture shift is central to the larger pursuit of NFV architectures where CapEx and OpEx advantages go hand-in-hand with radical improvements in network service agility and time-to-service.

The Brocade Vyatta 5600 enables telcos and large service providers to harness this extremely cost efficient networking power by leveraging software instead of deploying traditional purpose built hardware.