6WIND Awarded Embedded Technology Trophy for Intel Packet Processing Solution
PARIS, France, November 23, 2011 – During the fourth “Assises de l’Embarqué” (Embedded Technology Conference), organized by par Captronic, Syntec Numérique and DGCIS, 6WIND was awarded the prestigious “Trophée de l’Embarqué” (Embedded Technology Trophy) for its project “High Performance Packet Processing Engine on Intel Multicore Platforms”. This trophy rewards 6WIND’s innovative packet processing technology which has been selected by a growing number of telecom and network equipment providers for the deployment in next-generation mobile and cloud computing infrastructure.
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6WIND Announces Low-Latency Packet Processing Software for High-Frequency Trading Equipment
PARIS, France, November 14, 2011 – 6WIND, the industry standard for commercial multicore packet processing software, today announced the availability of a low-latency network layer as part of its 6WINDGate™ software solution. Optimized for high-frequency trading (HFT) applications, 6WINDGate provides low-latency protocols such as TCP Proxy, IP Forwarding and firewall. Along with 6WINDGate’s high-performance routing capabilities, these enhancements allow HFT Networking Equipment manufacturers to provide solutions without difficult-to-maintain, custom hardware technologies based on FPGAs or ASICs.
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6WIND Announces Availability of Packet Processing Software Optimized for Cavium’s Market-Leading OCTEON® II CN68XX Processor Family
PARIS, France, October 10, 2011 – 6WIND, the industry standard for commercial multicore packet processing software, today announced the availability of its 6WINDGate™ software with optimized support for the 32-core OCTEON® II CN68XX processor family from Cavium, Inc. Already used by OEMs in a wide range of products based on earlier OCTEON and OCTEON Plus processors, 6WINDGate enables the development of best-in-class cloud networking and mobile infrastructure equipment.
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6WIND Releases Packet Processing Software Optimized for Tilera’s TILEPro64 Processor
PARIS, France and SAN JOSE, California, September 26, 2011 – 6WIND today announced the availability of its 6WINDGate™ software with optimized support for the TILEPro64 processor family from Tilera Corporation, the industry leader in highly scalable general purpose “manycore processors”. Already deployed by a wide range of OEMs worldwide, 6WINDGate enables the development of high-performance, energy-efficient TILEPro64-based equipment for cloud networking and mobile infrastructure applications.
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6WIND Extends Portable Packet Processing Software to Support Intel® Data Plane Development Kit
PARIS, France, September 12, 2011 – 6WIND today announced the availability of its 6WINDGate™ software with optimized support for the Intel® Data Plane Development Kit (Intel® DPDK).
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6WIND and Qosmos Partner on High-Performance Real-Time Network Intelligence Solutions
PARIS, France, August 29, 2011 – 6WIND and Qosmos, the leading provider of Network Intelligence (NI) technology today announced a partnership between the two companies. With tight integration between the companies’ products, network equipment providers can add 6WIND’s advanced, multicore packet acceleration and Qosmos’ real-time NI capabilities to their solutions.
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6WIND Joins Network Intelligence Alliance
PARIS, France, August 29, 2011 – 6WIND today announced that it has become a member of the Network Intelligence Alliance (NI Alliance), an industry organization created for collaboration among the Network Economy’s technology providers.
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6WIND Releases Packet Processing Software Optimized for NetLogic Microsystems’ Industry-Leading XLP832 Processor
PARIS, France and SANTA CLARA, California, July 11, 2011 — 6WIND, the industry standard for commercial multicore packet processing software, today announced the availability of its 6WINDGate™ software with optimized support for the industry-leading XLP832 multicore communications processor with 32 NXCPUs™ from NetLogic Microsystems, [NASDAQ: NETL], a worldwide leader in high-performance intelligent semiconductor solutions for next-generation Internet networks.
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6WIND Announces Accelerated Protocol Termination Solutions for Cloud Computing Equipment
June 29, 2011 – PARIS, France – 6WIND, the industry standard for commercial multicore packet processing software, today announced an extension to its 6WINDGate™ product portfolio that addresses the increasing challenge of performance stress on the application infrastructure for cloud computing. 6WIND has added TCP termination to the comprehensive set of protocols supported by their fast path technology, typically delivering a 10x improvement in throughput over OS-based end point processing.
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6WIND Announces Tilera Architecture Support
April 25, 2011 – PARIS, France – 6WIND, the industry standard for commercial multicore packet processing software, today announced a new version of its 6WINDGate™ software with optimized support for the “manycore” TILEPro64 processor family from Tilera Corporation. Targeted at cloud computing, security equipment and telecom infrastructure applications, the 6WINDGate packet processing software enables OEMs to accelerate their business growth through differentiated products and services, while retaining architectural flexibility across their product lines.
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6WIND and ADI Engineering Team Up for High-Performance Packet Processing Platforms
March 29, 2011 – PARIS, France and CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA – 6WIND, the leading provider of commercial packet processing solutions, and ADI Engineering, the Open IP ODM and a leading supplier of hardware platforms for embedded networking and embedded Intel® Architecture technology, today announced a partnership to provide high-performance packet processing platforms for networking and telecom applications. The companies will work together to integrate the 6WINDGate™ packet processing software with ADI’s Intel® Architecture-based ATCA and AMC boards, resulting in optimized off-the-shelf solutions ideal for networking and telecom OEMs.
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6WIND and NetLogic Microsystems Expand Collaboration to Provide High-Performance Packet Processing Software for XLP832 Multicore Communications Processor
January 24, 2011 – SANTA CLARA, CA and PARIS, France – NetLogic Microsystems, Inc. [NASDAQ: NETL], a worldwide leader in high-performance intelligent semiconductor solutions for next-generation Internet networks and 6WIND, the leading provider of commercial packet processing software solutions, today announced an expansion of their collaboration to deliver high-performance solutions for next-generation telecom infrastructure, networking equipment and security appliances. Building on the success of its 6WINDGate™ packet processing software for NetLogic Microsystems’ XLR® and XLS® processor families, 6WIND will introduce support for NetLogic Microsystems’ best-in-class XLP832 multi-core communications processor.
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Mentor Graphics Selects 6WINDGate Packet Processing Software for Optimized Multicore Development
January 5, 2011 – WILSONVILLE, OR – Mentor Graphics Corporation (NASDAQ: MENT) today announced it has selected 6WIND, the leading commercial supplier of packet processing software for networking and telecommunications products, to integrate its 6WINDGate™ software with the Mentor® Embedded Linux® platform. The integration provides embedded developers, using Freescale and NetLogic processors, the means to maximize packet processing performance and scalability across multiple cores without the need to rewrite or re-verify their application software.
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