6WIND
Value-Proposition
for Industrial Control and Command Market
Customisable
Solution for Industrial Control and Command Market
Benefits
for Industrial Control and Command equipment manufacturers
6WINDGate™
Software Suites
Customer
Case Studies:
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New Challenges in
Industrial Control and Command Market
Similarly to other industrial sectors, Industrial
Control and Command market is heavily impacted by the IP tidal wave:
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Industrial Control
and Command system integrators can now develop cost effective
systems using the flexibility of IP technology and its improvements
such as QoS management to transfer heterogeneous traffics over
a single network, end-to-end security mechanisms or multicast
capabilities. The convergence towards a full IP-based system
significantly reduces costs at each step including development
thanks to better interoperability, deployment thanks to cabling
system reuse and maintenance. |
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Switching to
IP-based systems is a huge opportunity to integrate incremental
high added value services at a minimal cost. For instance, intelligent
e-building systems can easily integrate redundancy (VRRP) and
standard building monitoring services with video surveillance
or voice services over IP. |
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Linux perfectly matches with the standardisation trend driving
the Industrial Control and Command market. Linux has been
recognised as a significant step for software reuse and system
customization requiring to interface end systems using low-cost
standard technologies such as CAN or serial links as well
as legacy systems based on proprietary technologies.
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As the market for standardized Industrial Control and Command
systems begins to mature, there is a need for an application-ready
networking software that provides all the range of expected
network protocols for developing faster added value services
while providing the expected level of openness required by
the Industrial Control and Command market:
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Full set of networking
features |
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Validated
and ready to use technology on market-leading processors
and Linux technologies for the embedded market |
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Open technology for smooth integration with specific
interfaces and applications including management
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6WIND Value-Proposition
for Industrial Control and Command Market
6WINDGate™ Linux-based networking software
enables equipment providers and integrators of Industrial Control
and Command systems to migrate their existing product line towards
high-performance multi-services IP-based gateways to provide
richer services. It empowers them to:
- Develop quickly equipment targeting Industrial Control and Command
specific needs based on 6WINDGate™ comprehensive
networking feature-set.
- Reduce equipment Bill of Material by using a validated software
solution over off-the-shelf hardware platforms.
- Focus on product customisation to provide added value services.
- Develop easily management extensions for added features using
6WINDGate™ eXtensible
Management System (XMS).
6WINDGate™
Software Suites allow building a complete range of equipment,
scalable in performance. 6WINDGate™ ADS is particularly well-suited
to Industrial Control and Command applications. It is designed for
SoC mono-processor architectures using software-based or hardware-based
cryptography (thanks to the OCF API) to scale in performance (in
the range of 100 Mbps), benefiting from cost-effective BOM.
6WINDGate™ ADS is validated on x86,
FreeScale, ARM (Intel Xscale IXP4xx) and MIPS64 (Cavium Networks
OCTEON, Raza Microelectronics).
Customisable Solution
for Industrial Control and Command Market
Using 6WINDGate™ ADS for Industrial and Command Application
customisation
First of all, 6WINDGate™ provides a comprehensive
set of IP features required by innovative Industrial Control
and Command systems including popular L2 technologies (Ethernet,
serial, Wi-Fi), standard connectivity protocols (PPP, DHCP, DNS,
NAT…), IP security (IPsec, EAP), IP QoS management, unicast
and multicast routing protocols, mobility and transition to IPv6.
More, 6WINDGate™ smart software architecture
enables OEMs to perform unmatched end-product customization. Reflecting
software development best practices, 6WINDGate™ open software
architecture enables an easy integration of additional software
components:
- Driver Integration: Thanks to the VNB (Virtual Networking
Blocks) kernel framework provided by 6WINDGate™, a specific
driver can be integrated without any change to instantaneously
benefit from all 6WINDGate™ services.
- L2 protocol integration: L2 encapsulation protocol is
a well-known mechanism to transfer proprietary protocols over
IP or IP packets over non IP protocols. VNB framework provides
a smart architecture to quickly develop this kind of features.
For instance, VNB framework has been used to transfer IP over
OSI to interface CMIP-based management system, for IP over satellite
links or HDLC synchronous and plesiochronous serial links.
- Application Level Gateway Integration: Transfer of data
over IP can also often require application-level gateway for protocol
adaptation.
- Application integration: It is possible to integrate
proprietary, open source or partner application-level software
with 6WINDGate™, in order to build innovative and differentiated
applications. Some applications have already been tested and validated
by 6WIND or its customers in the area of security (UTM, proxies,
content filtering, anti-virus) and VoIP (SIP proxy).
- Management integration: 6WINDGate™ eXtensible
Management System (XMS) provides full-featured and highly-customizable
configuration tools: industry-standard CLI, Web-based management,
XML configuration, SNMP. By separating system configuration and
user interfaces, 6WINDGate™ XMS greatly reduces management
development cycles. Instead of developing a complete management
system from scratch, 6WIND customers can focus on consolidating
management across various sub-systems. As a result, they are increasingly
using this framework to integrate proprietary software, 6WINDGate™
functionalities and third party software components together.
Benefits for Industrial
Control and Command equipment manufacturers
- Faster migration to IP-based systems to provide higher added-value
services.
- Reduced development and integration cycles and costs with comprehensive,
pre-integrated networking middleware and highly customizable management
system.
- Optimized R&D resources for leveraging core competence and
differentiation
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