2009 was a tough year for the overall economy and the recovery is still uncertain. Despite this difficult environment, I'm delighted to announce that 6WIND revenues grew significantly last year. By the end of 2009, more than two thirds of the major Tier-1 telecom equipment manufacturers had selected 6WINDGate software as a critical element of their products, because high-speed packet processing is key to maximizing the performance of next-generation networks optimized for IP traffic. 6WIND is also proud to partner with best-in-class suppliers of multicore processors, board-level subsystems, operating systems and other embedded software products.

2010 and beyond will see the drive to all IP-based services continue its growth trend. This drive to all IP-based services places stringent performance demands on IP-based equipment and applications and in turn is fuelling demand for multicore technology. Telecommunications equipment largely relies on a flat IP-based architecture for its demanding wired and wireless services and IP is gaining steam in enterprise information systems too, leading us to an expected IP convergence.

With the recruitment of talented people in France, the US and China, 6WIND is going to expand its leadership role in 2010 by providing solutions advantageous to the drive for all IP-based services and multicore technology. We've benefited from continued investments that resulted in significant business growth during 2009 and look forward to continued growth in 2010 and beyond.

Happy New Year and all the best for 2010.

Eric Carmès - 6WIND CEO

Expanded Technology Partnership to Increase Integration of 6WIND's Multicore Embedded Networking Software with Emerson Network Power's AdvancedTCA® Platforms

Jan. 11, 2010 - Mountain View, California - 6WIND, the leading provider of high-performance packet processing embedded software for networking and telecommunications equipment, and Emerson Network Power, a business of Emerson and the global leader in enabling Business-Critical Continuity™, today announced an expansion of their technology partnership for joint multicore-based solutions. As part of the expansion, 6WIND will further integrate its 6WINDGate™ embedded networking software for multicore with Emerson Network Power AdvancedTCA® blades based on Cavium Networks OCTEON™ processors. The first expanded integration of 6WINDGate features Emerson Network Power's ATCA-9305, an ATCA blade based on dual OCTEON CN5860 processors and the Freescale™ Semiconductor MPC8548 management processor. Read PR.

Continuous Computing Adds Trillium FastPath Software to Packet Processing Blade for Application-Ready LTE EPC Systems

December 14, 2009 - San Diego - Continuous Computing®, the only company deploying uniquely architected systems comprised of telecom platforms and Trillium® software, today announced the incorporation of Trillium FastPath protocol software into its pre-integrated, application-ready system solutions for Long Term Evolution (LTE) Evolved Packet Core (EPC) network elements. Based on the 6WINDgate software suite from 6WIND and designed to meet the unique needs of the next generation mobile core, Trillium Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) and GPRS Tunneling Protocol (GTP) FastPath software is highly scalable and performance-optimized for the company's FlexPacket™ ATCA-PP50 packet processing blade, yielding performance gains of up to 3X over generic implementations. Read PR.

Multicore Packet Processing Forum

6WIND recently launched the Multicore Packet Processing Forum (Read PR) with the support of experts from Cavium Networks, Interphase Corporation, Netlogic Microsystems and Nokia Siemens Networks. The Forum attracts an increasing number of visitors and comments. It demonstrates the Forum is addressing a real need for the multicore community. If you have not had the opportunity to visit the Forum yet, please find hereafter a selection of the most visited posts:

• The future of the embedded Linux Market
  
• Advantages of multi-threading in next generation of multicore processors
  
• Disadvantages of multi-threading in next generation of multicore processors
  
• Multicore packet processing at the heart of convergence
  
• Virtualization for network-based multicore telecommunication systems - current status
  

6WIND at Mobile World Congress

Meet 6WIND at the Mobile World Congress, 15-18 February, 2010, in Barcelona. 6WIND's booth is located in Hall 2.

ESC Silicon Valley - Multicore US Expo - San Jose

Meet 6WIND at the ESC - Multicore Expo, 26-28 April, 2010, in San Jose. 6WIND's CEO will be speaking in the Networking and Telecom track about "Developing High Availability Packet Processing for Multicore Architectures."

If you are interested in 6WINDGate, 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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