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The OPEN Advantage
Open
Software Architecture
The open architecture of 6WINDGate™ software is distributed over
market-leading Linux operating system. It is held together
by 6WINDGate™ XMS, an extensible XML-based management
framework with industry standard APIs to speed up easy additions and
customization of new interfaces, features and applications. 6WIND
customers are able to differentiate, integrate and upgrade according
to emerging access technologies and application-layer protocols without
struggling with software integration and interoperability issues. Scaling
up for new or higher-performance Internet services becomes easier
to manage rendering it a future-proof investment.
Whether it's to develop a new multi-services
IP gateway, or to integrate application-specific protocols for
net-centric functionalities within existing communication systems
(eg. security, VoIP, wireless devices), customers are able to complete
and customize their end product at each level of the software architecture
by:
- Adding application-level services such as for VoIP or
for functionality needing tight integration with networking
modules such as Netflow
- Integrating kernel-level software or third party drivers
to support new media such as xDSL, WiFi or WiMAX
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For example, our engineers have successfully
tested the integration of third party security and network monitoring
enhancements with 6WINDGate™ software suites. These include
SNORT IDS, NTOP, Postfix Mail Proxy, Apache Web Proxy, Squid
Web Proxy, SquidGuard (access control and content filtering), SquidVscan
Anti-Virus.
Figure 1 shows the possible multi-level integration
within 6WINDGate™ software architecture.
6WINDGate™ XMS (eXtensible Management System)
is open to enable management consolidation of the complex depth
of 6WINDGate™ networking software, in addition to proprietary
and open source software that are required in new generation multi-services
appliances. It removes the complex and endless task of developing
coherent management across a multitude of software coming from different
sources. 6WIND customers can focus instead on management customization.
6WINDGate™ XMS is based on a client/server
architecture. The server part, named XMS Configuration Manager,
contains the industry's largest range of pre-defined XML-based network
service configuration schemes. XMS Clients are system-independent
and provide an interface to allow service configuration description.
OEMs can quickly interface 6WINDGate™ XMS with their existing
management application. They can also use in-built XMS Clients like
the new fully-automated CLI system or user-friendly web-management
system called WEBGate
for even faster processing.
Figure 2 illustrates how 6WINDGate™ XMS
works to assimilate integrated modules.
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Detailed documentation is completed with descriptions
of available methods and interfaces for inclusion of new or modified
features in the management system. Additionally, customers
can benefit from 6WIND's extensive documents targeted at end-customers,
such as user and configuration guides.
Open
Standards Compliance
6WINDGate™ features comply with major RFCs
established by IETF. We consider innovation based on
open source technologies as an important R&D strategy. Our
engineers actively participate as contributors and maintainers to
improve selected open source protocols essential to advance networking. For
instance 6WIND is one of four maintainers with BBN, HP and Sun Microsystems
on Quagga routing
protocols, the successor of Zebra routing technology. Our
engineers are also plugged into developer communities like NEMO
(network mobility) in Japan.
6WIND is therefore able to leverage the best of open source for
feature optimization and innovations for advanced mobile IP, multicast,
transition or modularization mechanisms, where patents are pending
or have been filed.
Through years of engineering expertise on integrating open source
with in-house development, 6WINDGate™ technology has also become
the living proof of intelligent segregation between GPL and non-GPL
codes. We understand the need to protect customer's proprietary
software codes and share our tried and tested process.
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