BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Delta Sonic Car Wash Systems is using Vyatta appliances to secure its credit-card transactions. Belmont, Calif.-based Vyatta is a leader in open networking and network virtualization. Delta Sonic has deployed 28 Vyatta 514 appliances, one at each of its retail locations in New York, Pennsylvania and Illinois to transmit credit card and cardholder information from point-of-sale (POS) systems to two Vyatta 2501 appliances at the company's headquarters in Buffalo.

Matthew Mackes, network administrator at Delta Sonic, said, "Vyatta's ability to run virtualized is a unique attribute of their open networking system that allowed us to standardize even more of our network on Vyatta."

As a Level 2 Payment Card Industry (PCI) merchant, Delta Sonic is required to process, store, and transmit credit card information in a secure environment to satisfy the Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council's PCI Data Security Standard. The company evaluated solutions from Juniper and Cisco, but chose Vyatta appliances to securely transmit transaction data between its retail locations and headquarters.

Vyatta allows Delta Sonic to segment the network, so cardholder data transmissions are secure from any VoIP, video, or other data flowing across the network. In addition, Vyatta has enabled Delta Sonic to secure internet-facing virtual machines in its Citrix XenServer-based virtual datacenter.

"The data security, network segmentation and virtualization involved in the installation at Delta Sonic Car Wash Systems really demonstrate the complete value that Vyatta offers network managers," said Dave Roberts, vice president of strategy at Vyatta. "Vyatta software and appliances easily address the routing and security needs of distributed networks as well as physical and virtual datacenters."

The Vyatta 514 appliance, integrating Vyatta's open-source routing and security software with a small form-factor hardware platform, is intended for small offices and retail outlets without a dedicated server or telecom room. The Vyatta Series 2500 appliances, delivered in a 1U rack mount form factor, offer processing power and hardware flexibility that make them suited for SME, enterprise, and service provider sites.

Vyatta runs on standard x86 hardware and delivers a full set of networking features that allow customers to connect, protect, virtualize and optimize their networks, improving performance, reducing costs and increasing manageability and flexibility compared to proprietary networking solutions. Vyatta has been deployed by hundreds of customers worldwide in both virtual and nonvirtual environments.

Vyatta builds commercially supported, open-source networking solutions. Vyatta uses Linux-based router, firewall and VPN software and flexible deployment options—x86 hardware, blade servers, virtualization offering freedom to integrate applications and the economic and performance advantages of commodity hardware and components.