Vyatta Delivers Twice the Performance of Cisco at Half the Price

Telepresence and Holography / Holograms - November 2008

Editor’s viewpoint on their differences, likenesses and future...

We all just recently viewed an historic CNN holographic interview on an historic Election Night. CNN stated this type of imaging has never been done before on National TV and I believe that. I haven’t seen anything like it. The live interview caught me by surprise and sure had the “wow” factor attached to it didn’t it? Here’s a link to the actual interview.

CNN Hologram Video

The question now has to be asked. Is it Telepresence?

I’m no expert on the subject but I’m going to throw my hat into the ring, go out on a limb and say yes, I believe it is. Although I know many video conferencing purists are rolling their eyes and grabbing their guns right about now with my statement.

While I do know that Telepresence still hasn’t been universally defined (Houston, we have a problem), here’s how I see it…. Broken down to its simplest form - “tele” (through electronic means) and “presence” (present). This is how I’m justifying my opinion by lumping holography and Telepresence together. Just as Telepresence is surely an offshoot of video conferencing, holographic imaging (like we viewed on CNN) surely has to be considered an offshoot of Telepresence. The interviewer was “telepresent” from Chicago and beamed into the CNN Election Headquarters. She was most assuredly - “telepresent”. There was negligible latency, the imaging was fantastic and both interviewers were rehearsed on what they would say. I’ve just recently read that CNN actually “downgraded” the experience to make it “movie” quality and not as good as it could have been. Maybe they thought us mere mortals would be shocked if they showed their complete hand. I have a feeling it was so big to them, they didn’t want it to get upstaged by the historic election. I’m willing to bet we’ll see the “true” power of this technology in the upcoming weeks and months when they can put the pedal to the medal and show it off without having it sidetracked.

What an amazing time for this technology (all differences and opinions aside). Telepresence Doctors, nurses, teachers, schools and healthcare (healthpresence) will benefit from the recent gains in this state-of-the-art industry whether holograms, Telepresence or holography. Airlines also have to see the threat to a portion of their business travel. Hell, who wants go through security and fly to Miami for a two-hour conference when you can look them in the eye via Telepresence?

Beam me up Scotty! Simply amazing…!

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San Mateo, Calif. (PRWeb) March 9, 2007 -- Vyatta today announced the release of independent third-party testing results from The Tolly Group that measured the throughput and performance of the open-source, x86-based Vyatta router and firewall appliance versus the proprietary Cisco 2821 ISR.

“This report shatters the myth that proprietary hardware products are a better choice than standard x86-based systems for network infrastructure,” said Dave Roberts, VP of strategy and marketing at Vyatta. “For the majority of routing applications, open-source software and x86-based hardware can easily address the performance requirements and at significantly lower price points.”

Tolly Report Highlights:
1. (Vyatta) Outperforms the Cisco 2821 router consistently in Layer 3 Ethernet bidirectional zero-loss throughput, achieving up to twice the performance at half the price

2. (Vyatta) Operates at wire-speed across two onboard Gigabit Ethernet ports when forwarding 1,024-byte frames or higher

3. (Vyatta) Delivers lower frame-loss than the Cisco 2821 for all packet sizes and achieves zero frame loss with packets of 1,024 bytes and higher

4. (Vyatta) Leverages standard hardware and the structural cost benefits of the x86 ecosystem offer a flexible, extensive faster solution at attractive price points.

Availability
The full document, Tolly Report: Vyatta® 1.1.2 Competitive Gigabit Ethernet LAN Routing Throughput Evaluation versus Cisco 2821 Integrated Service Router, can be downloaded from http://www.tolly.com/DocDetail.aspx?DocNumber=207190 or at http://www.vyatta.com/download/

About Vyatta
“Vyatta” is the ancient Sanskrit word meaning “open” – a fitting name for a company that was created to bring commercial-quality, open-source networking products to market. Open source has created a profound change in the market place, shifting the balance of power from large corporations back to the users of products. Open source is about control, choice, and cost savings. Vyatta is bringing those qualities to the world of network infrastructure products. For more information, please visit www.vyatta.com.

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