AT&T to pick up Vyatta assets from Brocade
AT&T is picking up Brocade’s Vyatta network operating system and software solutions amid the sale of Brocade to Broadcom, to further its network virtualization efforts as well as its product offerings.
Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. AT&T expects the transaction to close in early summer, prior to the closing of Broadcom’s acquisition.
Once the deal is final, AT&T will own the Vyatta operating system and its virtual network functions including the vRouter solution, as well as Vyatta’s distributed services platform. It also gets unreleased software under development that is part of Vyatta’s development roadmap, existing software licenses, and related intellectual property.
AT&T said that it plans to hire some Brocade employees, mostly in California and the United Kingdom, who work with Vyatta.
“The Vyatta platform will help AT&T continue to drive its network transformation,” the company said in a statement. “This acquisition will bolster our ability to deliver cloud or premises-based VNFs, starting with our previously announced SD-WAN cloud service with VeloCloud.” AT&T added that the purchase will also expand its white box platform capabilities; the company has been working in this area to design and build its own white box switches and completed a trial of that approach in late March.
“Our network transformation effort lets us add new features quicker than ever before at a much lower cost,” said Andre Fuetsch, chief technology officer and president of AT&T Labs. “Being able to design and build the tools we need to enable that transformation is a win for us and for our customers.”
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