Current Press releases
- 2010

Archived Press releases
- 2009

 6WIND Software Provides 10x the Performance with Lower Power Consumption for Systems Based on Freescale QorIQ P4080

June 14, 2010 - PARIS, France - 6WIND, the industry standard for commercial packet processing solutions, today announced a new version of its 6WINDGate™ software, with optimized support for the QorIQ™ P4080 processor from Freescale Semiconductor. The 6WINDGate software offers Freescale customers a market-proven migration path to the performance advantages associated with multicore processing, while also providing a solution for achieving low power consumption targets.
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 Advantech and 6WIND Pack 80 Gbps Throughput into Packetarium™

May 25, 2010 - TAIPEI, Taiwan - Advantech and 6WIND today announced the availability of the latest 6WINDGate™ multi-core packet processing software on Advantech’s award-winning Packetarium™ NCP-7560 network processor platform. Based on Cavium's 12-core OCTEON® Plus network processor, the NCP-7560 represents the high performance end of the Packetarium™ product line. It integrates up to eight powerful, multi-core Packetarium™ network processing boards for scalable wire speed packet processing, handling up to 80 Gbps throughput in a 4U rackmount space.
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 6WIND Builds on Networking and Telecom Success, Launches Packet Processing Solution for Mobile Internet, Data Centers and Cloud Computing

May 11, 2010 - PARIS, France - 6WIND, the industry standard for commercial packet processing solutions, with an established presence in networking and telecom equipment, today announced a new version of its 6WINDGate™ software, with optimized support for the new OCTEON® II processor family from Cavium Networks (NASDAQ: CAVM), targeted at data center, mobile Internet and cloud computing applications. The 6WINDGate packet processing software enables developers of next-generation multicore Internet infrastructure equipment to minimize their time-to-market, while maximizing the performance, features and stability of their product.
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 6WIND Joins eNsemble™ Multi-Core Alliance to Drive 6WINDGate Packet Processing Software Leadership for Multi-Core Processors

April 28, 2010 - PARIS, France - 6WIND, the leading provider of high-performance packet processing software for embedded systems, today announced that it has become a member of the eNsemble™ Multi-Core Alliance, a premier industry organization founded to drive best-in-class innovations in multi-core parallel processing platforms and software development. Supported by a broad base of world-class hardware and software providers, the eNsemble Multi-Core Alliance serves as the foundation upon which original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) can more effectively and more efficiently develop high-performance networking equipment using industry-leading multi-core processors.
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 Continuous Computing Optimizes Trillium SCTP FastPath to Achieve Unprecedented 10X Performance Improvement and Collaborates with 6WIND and NetLogic Microsystems to Yield Massive Gains in Throughput to Improve LTE EPC and Femtocell Gateway Efficiency

April 13, 2010 - SAN DIEGO - Continuous Computing®, the global provider of integrated platform solutions that address the mobile broadband capacity challenge, today announced that its Trillium® Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) FastPath software has achieved a 10X performance improvement over generic user-space SCTP implementations. Trillium SCTP FastPath leverages the leading 6WINDGate™ packet processing software suite from 6WIND and its optimized performance is delivered via the FlexPacket™ ATCA-PP50 Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) blade from Continuous Computing featuring dual NetLogic Microsystems (NASDAQ: NETL) XLR®732 multi-core processors. By delivering a 10X advantage over generic SCTP performance, Trillium SCTP FastPath software enables network equipment providers to allocate a higher percentage of system processing capacity to customer traffic instead of signaling overhead, thereby freeing up valuable payload slots for customer-bearing traffic.
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 6WIND Launches Version 3 of the Industry's #1 Packet Processing Software Solution

April 12, 2010 - PARIS, France - 6WIND, a leading provider of commercial packet processing solutions, today announced the release of the latest and most powerful version of its 6WINDGate™ software for multicore processors.
6WINDGate Version 3 enables developers of next-generation networking equipment to minimize the time-to-market for multicore platforms, while maximizing the features and stability of their product and leveraging the latest processors from industry-leading suppliers.
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 6WIND Provides 10x Acceleration of Packet Processing Functions on New Multi-Core Intel® Platforms

March 16, 2010 - PARIS, France - 6WIND, the leading provider of high-performance packet processing software for embedded systems, today announced support for the new multi-core, embedded Intel® Xeon® processor EC5549 and Intel® Xeon® processor E5645. Using the6WINDGate software, system developers increase the packet processing performance of their networking, telecommunications and security products by up to 10x compared to a standard Linux implementation, while reusing their existing application software and accelerating their time-to-market.

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 6WIND to Exhibit at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, February 15-18, 2010

February 15-18, 2010 - Barcelona - 6WIND to Exhibit at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, February 15-18, 2010. 6WIND Will Join Many of its Wireless Telecommunications Ecosystem Partners Also Exhibiting at Event.
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 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® (ATCA®) 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.
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