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WAN card vendor launches developer community
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| Sangoma, which makes telephone network add-in cards supported under Linux,
| has launched a developer network for the open source community. Sangoma's
| Developer Network will serve as a platform for open source VoIP developers,
| connecting them with potential clients and employers, says the company.
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http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS6540892275.html?kc=rss
A hands-on look at Vyatta Community Edition 4 networking software
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| Vyatta offers hardware and open source software for enterprise-level network
| infrastructure. Vyatta can turn any 32-bit x86 machine with at least one
| network interface into a network appliance that handles routing, firewall,
| and VPN tasks. The company released Vyatta Community Edition 4 in April, with
| improved scalability and feature enhancements. Large enterprises now have a
| low-cost alternative to proprietary hardware like the Cisco 7200.
|
| [...]
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| Vyatta Community Edition 4 is a good low-cost alternative to proprietary
| network hardware. If you want to use Vyatta in compute-intensive applications
| like VPNs or multiple routing and firewall policies, follow Vyatta's hardware
| guidelines. As a minimum, a machine with a 1GHz processor with 512MB of RAM
| and 1GB of disk space is recommended, allowing you to use a machine that
| today costs $100 or less for Vyatta's basic features.
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| Vyatta shows promise in the enterprise arena. Although I'm a Cisco fan when
| it comes to big enterprise networks, using Vyatta on small and medium-sized
| networks and familiarizing yourself with it is a good idea for now and may
| give you a big advantage in the future.
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http://www.linux.com/feature/143998
Related:
California city connects with open-source networking
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| Reliance on open source has been inexpensive and stable, says IT
| manager for Madera, Calif.
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| [...]
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| In Madera's case, two Vyatta Inc. routers that run on the Debian
| GNU/Linux-based open-source operating system helped Wheeler consolidate
| routers in the city's data center last year. By eliminating eight Cisco
| routers that needed upgrading in order to accommodate additional traffic, he
| said he saved the city $16,000, spending about one-third of what he would
| have spent on the Cisco router upgrade.
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| In a more dramatic money-saving move, the city did a complete network upgrade
| to implement a voice-over-IP system based on Asterisk, an open-source PBX
| system from Digium Inc. in Huntsville, Ala. The Asterisk VoIP system cost
| about $120,000, whereas a Cisco system would have run about $400,000, he
| said.
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http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=open_source&articleId=9027911&taxonomyId=88&intsrc=kc_top
http://tinyurl.com/32s83e
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