AT&T T 17,13 +0,22 +1,30% are buying from Brocade Unfortunately, we could not get stock quote BRCD this time. their Vyatta assets. Brocade’s IP network assets are being split out and sold off as part of their impending sale to Broadcom AVGO 630,12 +19,96 +3,27%.
The Vyatta vRouter is an NFV platform that provides routing and elementary firewall capabilities, and is designed for deploying at the edge of networks. (It’s interesting that AT&T call it Vyatta, as it implies that the re branding and integrating in Brocade wasn’t successful).
It’s got a lot of uses, for example, as the edge gateway for the IBM cloud infrastructure. The Vyatta network operating system provides a platform for:
- a vCE (virtual Customer Edge router, hosted in the service provider network)
- as a NFV module on a vCPE
- as a high performance BGP router or virtual Route Reflector
- as a VPN concentrator; or as a Top of Rack (ToR) router for connection of racks or pods to the core network.
Vyatta have been focusing on high-bandwidth for a while, and have a DPDK implementation which allows high speeds, as demonstrated recently with Telefonica.
AT&T would gain from having Vyatta in their portfolio, for two primary reasons. The first is that it avoids them paying license costs to other suppliers for their vRouter implementations (e.g Cisco‘s ISRv or CSR1000v, or Juniper’s vMX platforms). The second is they have a commercial advantage against others that use Cisco or Juniper. This is extended as they gain a revenue stream from others that would use the Vyatta platform. As a known platform it would also be easier to integrate into the ECOMP (now ONAP) platform.
“Our network transformation effort lets us add new features quicker than ever before at a much lower cost. Being able to design and build the tools we need to enable that transformation is a win for us and for our customers.” – Andre Fuetsch, CTO and President, AT&T Labs.
