Brocade Vyatta [EOL] vs Cumulus Networks comparison

Brocade Software Defined Networking a dynamic, open, and logically centralized architecture. With Brocade SDN solutions, you can adjust network traffic flow on the fly to meet changing needs, put profitable services in place rapidly, and reduce operational risk. Brocade's software defined networking controllers and applications addresses your data center needs with an open architecture that enables programmable network control and an abstracted underlying infrastructure, providing Streamlined operations, simplified service provisioning, real-time data center visibility, increased flexibility, and risk-free change management.

Cumulus Networks is leading the transformation of bringing web-scale networking to enterprise cloud. Our networking switching software, Cumulus Linux, is the only solution that allows you to affordably build and efficiently operate your network like the world’s largest data center operators — unlocking vertical network stacks.

With Cumulus Linux, our customers can run their data center networks the way Google and Facebook have done for years, highly automated, without all the development time or expensive, specialized hardware.

The network is a critical part of the data center that has traditionally been a bottleneck for rapid deployment of applications. We believe in completely transforming the industry by enabling a web-scale IT architectural approach that brings efficiency and flexibility to the network.