Cloud Computing: How Vyatta helps Brocade in a software-defined world

Grazed from GigaOM. Author: Stacey Higginbotham.

Brocade, the switch company, is buying Vyatta, a company that pioneered the idea of open-source routing software, in a bid to compete in the networking world as software-defined networking severs the link between networking software and the box that it sits on.

Brocade, the networking and switch company, is buying Vyatta, a company that pioneered the idea of open-source routing software, in a bid to compete in a networking world where software-defined networking severs the link between networking software and the box that it sits on…

Brocade has been a proponent of Open Flow, the protocol that separates the management of packets in a network from the actual movement of the packets, and thus allows companies to build out networking hardware on commodity boxes instead of expensive switching and routing gear with proprietary operating systems. The company had laid out a strategy earlier this year to use Open Flow-compatible switches, but also planned to build an overlay that would allow a customer to use both Open Flow-enabled hardware as well as their current gear, so customers could avoid replacing their entire networks…

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