6WIND Adds Industry Veteran Charlie Ashton as Vice President of Marketing and US Business Development

December 9, 2009 - PARIS, France - 6WIND, the leading provider of high-performance packet processing embedded software for networking and telecommunications equipment, today announced the appointment of Charlie Ashton as Vice President of Marketing and United States Business Development. With the addition of Ashton to guide global marketing and US business development efforts, 6WIND is expanding its leadership team as part of continued investments that have resulted in significant business growth during 2009, despite the challenging economic conditions worldwide. Read PR.

New Online Forum Emerges to Tackle Complex Technical Obstacles and Marketing Issues in Embedded Networking Software for Multicore Platforms

December 15, 2009 - Mountain View - A new online forum has emerged for designers and marketers of multicore-based architectures to address embedded software challenges they face. The forum - Multicore Packet Processing Forum - focuses on technical and marketing issues related to embedded networking software for multicore platforms, now a key industry challenge. Engineers and marketers from companies such as 6WIND, Cavium Networks, Interphase Corporation, NetLogic Microsystems and Nokia Siemens Networks have so far contributed posts to the forum. The Multicore Packet Processing Forum is moderated by 6WIND and is open to contributions from anyone involved in embedded networking for multicore technical or marketing issues. The forum is available online at http://www.multicorepacketprocessing.com. 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.

6WINDGate Library

Below is a list of recent online articles by 6WIND for leading industry publications and an application note about 6WINDGate:

• CompactPCI & AdvancedTCA Systems newsletter Multicore-Based AdvancedTCA architectures: High availability key in networking layer.
  
• November issue of Embedded Computing Design: Multicore progressively powers networking equipment with high-performance software.
  
• October issue of Embedded Systems Design dedicated to multicore: Multicores can transform IP-based wired/wireless networking.
  
• 6WINDGate Application Note: Multicore Meets Growing Demand for High Performance Packet Processing.

6WIND at World Mobile Congress :

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

6WINDGate 2.22 New Features

6WINDGate version 2.22 now includes the following new features:

• MPLS encapsulation: The 6WINDGate Slow Path and Fast Path now include a MPLS module that integrates ILM, NHLFE, and FEC to support more than 500,000 LSPs per LSR or LER. It can combine any FEC (iptable/netfilter or 6WIND's VRF support) to map traffic on LSPs. This MPLS encapsulation module is ready for integration with any off-the-shelf RSVP-TE or CR-LDP signaling protocols.
  
• TCP splicing: This module interconnects TCP sockets directly into the Fast Path while using userland TCP proxies, such as Apache. It has been designed to allow L4 interconnections by combining the rich set of features of a Linux-based proxy with a powerful Fast Path-based TCP.
  
• High Availability: 6WINDGate is now HA-aware; it integrates the packet processing features required for HA Carrier Grade Systems. Using 6WINDGate HA extensions, you can combine multiple multicore processors to design a single HA managed system. Those modules provide NSF (Non Stop Forwarding), NSR (Non Stop Routing), Graceful Restart, Control Plane monitoring and table synchronization between multiple instances of remote Control Planes and Data Planes without impacting the performance of the Fast Path. Thanks to its tight integration with a Linux-based Control Plane, this HA solution accelerates the development of HA-ready packet processing systems. It has been successfully used on 4G systems and Carrier Grade NATs (LSN). An Overview of the 6WINDGate HA architecture is available here.

Two-thirds of the largest telecommunications equipment suppliers use 6WINDGate to maximize the packet processing performance of their systems. With optimized support for multicore platforms from multiple embedded processor suppliers, 6WINDGate allows system developers to focus their design efforts on their own value-added software components, with 6WINDGate implementing the low-level packet processing and data plane functions. This allows customers to maximize the system-level performance of their platform while enjoying the ability to seamlessly scale from single-core systems to more complex multicore architectures.

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

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