Brocade Vyatta VRouter

The virtual router Brocade Vyatta VRouter is the software for virtualization of network functionality of Network Functions Virtualization (NFV).

Vyatta vRouter allows the organizations to create complex multilevel networks in the virtualized environment, adding, creating and moving necessary network services as required.

Brocade Vyatta vRouter can act as the virtual router, the firewall, the VPN gateway in the physical, virtual or cloud area networks. The software of Brocade Vyatta supports all modern hypervisors: VMware of ESX, Citrix XEN/XENserver, Microsoft Hyper-V and RedHat KVM, or can be set on standard h86 systems.

Core of Brocade Vyatta is the progressive module of routing which is completely supporting IPv4 and IPv6, dynamic protocols (BGP Multipath, OSPF, RIP, Multicast), different tunneling protocols, QoS, safe management through CLI, Web or Remote Access API. The platform supports wireless, Serial WAN interfaces and cards 10 Gigabit Ethernet. The functionality of the firewall and detection of invasions allows to intercept and analyze network traffic, to perform zone-time-based and peer-to-peer filtering and to prevent unauthorized access to resources of network. Customers can flexibly use rich functionality for the organization of virtual private networks: site-to-site VPN, IPsec VPN, SSL-based Open VPN, DMVPN. All this is available in the form of the ready-made software solution which can be unrolled in network in read minutes.

2015: Brocade provides the free annual license on the Brocade Vyatta controller

The Brocade company since February, 2015 began to provide the free annual license on Brocade Vyatta Controller. The Brocade Vyatt controller will allow the companies and service providers to use the program configured networks without the need for investment of capital in purchase of the expensive equipment with a progressive tense of installation. The free license gives an ability to manage five physical or virtual network points in the non-productive environment and also 60-day round-the-clock access from any place in the world to resources of the center of technical support Brocade.

Transition of the industry to New IP technologies demands the open strategy of program configuring for obtaining the maximum advantages from Big Data, cloud, mobile and social innovative technologies. The solution SDN on the basis of an open program code provides big innovation and compatibility, eliminating expensive dependence on one vendor. However use of new approach to configuring of network sometimes requires unique knowledge and working experience. According to the research GigaOm, most the organizations wishing to use the SDN solution with an open program code aim to purchase this technology at the commercial supplier for reduction of risk of implementation and receiving reliable technical support. These conditions are key in approach of Brocade company to public SDN.

For stimulation of emergence of the innovation network applications the Brocade company also released the Brocade Vyatta controller in the version for developers which includes the whole complex of tools: templates, libraries and test environments. These tools will allow developers to write and test quickly SDN-applications and also it is easy to put them into operation. The Brocade Vyatta controller has no patent restrictions therefore developers can be sure that their applications will work together with any other controller on the basis of OpenDaylight. Besides, developers save full authority of intellectual property for the applications created by them.

SDN is a new boundary for developers and users. New company services of Brocade will help the organizations quickly and to pass smoothly to SDN. The company provides the following services:

• Technical support of Brocade is the uniform team of specialists providing carrying out routine maintenance, instructing, supervision of implementation and troubleshooting in the environment of the Brocade Vyatta controller. Development experts can also help with the problem resolution, arising when writing as simplest scripts of automation, and during creation of difficult service applications.
• The certified training of Brocade provides transfer of the main skills and abilities which are necessary to the IT organizations for successful implementation. Internal rates for network engineers who want to create the customized applications interacting with the Brocade Vyatta controller enter this training.
• The professional service Brocade includes services of expert consultation on implementation of SDN and projects of development. Experts can work directly with users and developers to build the correct IT environment in which applications will work according to tasks.
• The specialized Internet forum is the independent website devoted to questions of a practical research by users and developers of different aspects of network configurations with an open program code. At a forum clients can download the Brocade Vyatta controller, take part in discussions, get access to documentation and the center of technical support Brocade, to share the cases, instructions and code samples with participants and also to learn about the last innovations in the public projects concerning networks.

The Brocade Vyatta controller - the passed test and quality check, documentary version of the OpenDaylight platform, open system of collective development which encourages creation of innovations and more transparent approach to SDN. Unlike other producers, the Brocade company aims not only to improve Brocade Vyatta Controller, but also to notify community of developers on it, for the purpose of ensuring permanent working compatibility with other controllers on the basis of OpenDaylight. As a result of this policy, new opportunities, functions and improvements are implemented into a product regularly, and more than once in two or three years as it traditionally happens to software updates. Additional unique features of the Brocade Vyatta controller include:

• the design which is not depending on the platform of use, the main OS and its managing program which allows to manage physical and virtual network platforms from different producers;
• the graphic user interface easy in use, the instruments of installation and a full support reducing time expenditure by acquisition of competences and implementation and also costs for the current administration.