6WINDGate™ Software
Suites
6WINDGate™ architecture relies on a modular
approach to provide adapted solutions to customer requirements.
This modularity is based on three building blocks:
- Fast Path Modules
- Linux Networking Stack
- Control Plane Modules
6WINDGate™ building blocks can be assembled in 3 different
profiles.
6WINDGate™ Profiles
- 6WINDGate™ ADS is
targeted for middle range appliances and equipment. Control Plane
and Data Plane are co-localized. For MC architectures, a SMP Linux
kernel with an optimized SMP kernel networking stack is running
on all the cores in order to process many packets simultaneously.
- 6WINDGate™ EDS is
a solution based on a Fast Path architecture. This Fast Path is
implemented as a Linux kernel module between the Linux networking
stack and the interface drivers. So, it does not require any specific
MCEE (Multi-Core Executive Environment). Compared to a standard
Linux architecture, forwarding is performed at the driver level.
Only packets that cannot be processed by Fast Path are forwarded
to the Linux Networking Stack (Slow Path). 6WINDGate™ EDS
architecture relies on Cache Manager and Fast Path Manager modules
to integrate and synchronise Fast Path processing and Slow Path
/ Control Plane in a transparent manner. 6WINDGate EDS™ delivers
the best possible performance in pure Linux environment.
- 6WINDGate™ SDS is
targeted for high end equipment. Similarly to 6WINDGate™
EDS, it is also based on a Fast Path architecture but Fast Path
is implemented in the MCEE (Multi-Core Executive Environment).
A certain number of cores are dedicated to Fast Path; Fast Past
modules run in a dedicated execution space outside of Linux kernel.
Forwarding is performed at the Fast Path level. 6WINDGate™
SDS architecture relies on Cache Manager and Fast Path Manager
modules to integrate and synchronise Fast Path processing and
Slow Path / Control Plane in a transparent manner. 6WINDGate™
SDS delivers the highest possible performance MC architectures
can sustain.
6WIND modular offering can be adapted to immediate
customer needs and upgraded with new feature or performance needs.
All 6WINDGate™ profiles equally benefit
from 6WINDGate™ architecture openness and from the innovative
XML-based Management System that makes it possible to integrate
and manage third-party and/or customer modules with 6WINDGate™
built-in modules.
6WINDGate™ profiles can address a large
range of applications and be used to develop a range of products
with a large number of common modules thus reducing validation and
maintenance costs.
Applications for 6WINDGate™ Profiles
A comparison between 6WINDGate™ profiles
can be found here.
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