6WINDGATE™ BENEFITS IN THE VALUE CHAIN FOR DESIGNING
NGN EQUIPMENT AND SYSTEMS

Designing systems for Next Generation Networks has dramatically changed over the years. Carriers are moving to the services business; tier-1 equipment manufacturers are providing a complete infrastructure solution; and solutions integrators are delivering integrated systems based on key hardware and software technologies provided by component providers.

The communications layer in NGN has the highest degree of sophistication. For example, in a wireless infrastructure the number of subsystems can include access network equipment, infrastructure network equipment, IMS, media gateways, inter-connection gateways, session controllers, authentication servers, billing systems, lawful interception, and more.

Each one is its own complex system including packet processing, security, deep packet inspection, complex control plane protocols, applications, and management layers.

At the heart of all this, is the adoption of multicore technology to harness the needed processing capabilities and to offer a high level of integration with less power consumption. A ready to use multicore-based networking layer is now necessary to cut design costs and time and is also a requirement for designing systems with a high performance communications layer.

Migration to multicore is not simple as it introduces new design complexities that lead to difficult integration and development. 6WIND's solution - 6WINDGate - specifically addresses such design challenges for telecom and datacom applications. 6WINDGate is the only solution in the market offering ready to use embedded networking features and application integration capabilities that truly cuts design costs and expedites designing and deploying services upon equipment using multicore.

Learn more about 6WIND architecture and 6WIND solution for solution integrators.

Multicore US Expo, March 17-19

6WIND is a sponsor of the Multicore US Expo, March 17-19, 2009, Santa Clara, California. We will also be speaking and participating on a panel about "Trends in Multicore Processor Design and Application Optimizations." We look forward to seeing you at the show.

6WINDGate™ version 2.18 extends feature set of the market-leading networking software for multicore based architectures.

6WINDGate™ Fast Path now includes:

• Fast Path Firewall: 6WINDGate implements a new high performance lookup of firewall entries able to filter more than 10 Gbps of TCP and UDP streams.
  
• Fast Path NAT: 6WINDGate integrates the latest enhancements for high performance LSN (Large Scale NATs) in carrier applications.
  
• Fast Path IPv4 Multicast: 6WINDGate is the first and only solution available on the market to support multicast in Fast Path for optimized performance.

6WINDGate is the most comprehensive networking software suite available on market-leading Multicore Processors (Cavium, Freescale, Intel, RMI) and validated on boards (ATCA / AMC / PCIe / PCI-X boards, 1U appliance servers, mono and dual multicore appliances) from major manufacturers.

With these new features that are added to IPv4 and IPv6 forwarding, L2, VLAN, IPsec, QoS, IP Reassembly, ROHC, Flow Inspection, IPv6 tunneling, etc., 6WINDGate remains the undisputed market leader in providing embedded software that simplifies, expedites and maximizes performance capabilities of multicore processor-based designs and applications.

6WINDGate Fast Path can be provided with a pre-integrated Linux networking stack and Control Plane protocols to reduce development time or integrated with existing software thanks to a smart architecture that hides multicore complexities.

If you are interested in our 6WINDGate offering, presentations, performance results and evaluation software are available upon request.

Email us at: 6wind-sales@6wind.com, 6wind-us-sales@6wind.com or 6wind-asia-sales@6wind.com

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