Vyatta Connects Citywide Network for Portland, Texas

BELMONT, CA, May 27 (MARKET WIRE) --
Vyatta, the leader in open networking and network virtualization, today
announced that its open routing and security software has been adopted to
connect and protect the offices and emergency services of the city of
Portland, Texas. Using Vyatta, the city created a Metropolitan Area
Network (MAN) supporting voice and data at every city facility. And
thanks to the low cost of Vyatta -- about 1/25th the cost of a solution
from Cisco -- the new network infrastructure did not cause heartburn for
city officials.

"Vyatta is the heart of our citywide network," said Terrell Elliott,
detective sergeant and IT manager of the Portland, Tex. Police Department,
"and Vyatta offered us a cost-effective solution that didn't compromise
availability or security. I could easily see us spending well over
$250,000 for Cisco equipment to replicate what we did here for less than
$10,000, and Vyatta's open networking software offers the flexibility to
meet both our current and future requirements."

Located along the Texas Gulf Coast, Portland, Texas has 17,000 residents.
When the local police department was challenged with migrating network
connectivity to the statewide Texas Law Enforcement Telecommunications
System (TLETS), which provides online access to the drivers' license,
vehicle registration, and criminal history databases, Elliott needed to
gut the existing non-IP networking systems. To find a cost-effective
solution for enterprise-class routing and security, Elliott explored open
source networking and selected Vyatta as the only solution to provide not
only secure, economical TLETS integration, but also end-to-end routing and
security throughout the city.

In addition to installing Vyatta at the network core, Elliot installed
Vyatta routers at three line-of-site microwave connections and in each of
seven patrol cars. Said Elliott, "Vyatta not only performs the routing
function, but also provides firewall, content inspection, and VPN for
TLETS and other software, such as the Automated Vehicle Location system,
that goes out to the cars." Mobile communication will eventually extend
to all fire and emergency medical vehicles as well.

Elliott also installed Vyatta routers at each city location including the
Public Works Department, the Community Center, two fire stations, and the
library. Together with the central router at the police station, Vyatta
routers manage the full range of services including Internet access,
public and secure Wi-Fi, VoIP telephony, a video surveillance system, and
an intelligent building access system. Layers of redundancy ensure
availability.

By selecting hardware based on the performance needs of different network
nodes, the City was able to use the same Vyatta software for the entire
infrastructure instead of managing a network with different classes of
routers, VPN appliances, and firewalls. This single system approach
enabled Elliott to minimize the learning curve, while the flexibility of
Vyatta's open networking software ensured the city will be able to meet
all its future requirements.

"The recession hasn't eliminated the need for government agencies to
invest significant dollars in keeping pace with evolving regulations and
technologies, but Vyatta goes a long way toward softening the financial
hit," said Kelly Herrell, CEO of Vyatta. "As the City of Portland has
found, Vyatta offers all the functionality and security demanded by the
most critical network tasks at a fraction of the cost of Cisco and other
proprietary network vendors, enabling more money to be saved for other
vital city services."

About Vyatta

Vyatta builds commercially supported, open-source networking solutions
that provide an alternative to over-priced, inflexible products from
proprietary vendors. Our customers are smarter, better looking, and drive
much nicer cars than purchasers of big-name products. Vyatta customers
know that Vyatta's Linux-based router, firewall and VPN software gives
them a level of control unavailable from proprietary solutions. Vyatta
customers are thought leaders who recognize the benefits of flexible
deployment options -- x86 hardware, blade servers, virtualization -- of
freedom to integrate applications of their choice, and of the economic
and performance advantages of commodity hardware and components. For more
info, visit http://www.vyatta.com.

Contact:
Andrew Evangelista
Eastwick Communications
650.480.4056
andrew@eastwick.com

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