Open Source Router Cuts Costs by Nearly 87%

Vyatta and Sangoma Technologies announced a deal that will put Vyatta’s Open Flexible Router (OFR) on Sangoma’s WANPIPE PCI cards. Vyatta's OFR is an open source routing code based on the XORP routing project out of the International Computer Sciences Institute (ICSI) at Berkeley. The code includes OSPF, BGP and RIP routing protocols, stateful firewalling and network address translation (NAT). Vyatta has tried to build a development community around OFR much the way Red Hat has done with Linux.