open source router better than cisco?

The Black Box That Would Conquer Telecom - March 1, 2006
This is very interesting because even though I am studying for my CCNA I know that lower cost, more flexible devices are needed in this market. Reliability, Stability and performance are the big three of network gear. If the platform can meet these requirements, than this software will have a viable life.

But no project is as audacious as Vyatta's play for the corporate router market. The idea began at the International Computer Science Institute in Berkeley, where researcher Atanu Ghosh was studying the future of broadband. Ghosh knew that to make changes to router software, he had to submit them to Cisco or some other behemoth--a laborious process.

So he and his colleagues decided to write their own software, building in support for cutting-edge technologies such as video-on-demand and VOIP. The project caught the attention of Leinwand, a startup veteran who was also one of Cisco's early employees. "This is the most obvious opportunity in telecom," he says.