6WINDPath Product Brief

6WINDGate™

Product
Design Wins

Leveraging extensive experience in multicore software design and IP networking architectures and technologies, 6WIND's "6WINDPath" service helps OEMs, network equipment suppliers and system integrators migrate their applications to multicore architectures.

Stringent Bandwidth Performance Requires Multicore

Telecommunications and enterprise networks continue to move to all-IP-based equipment. This has placed stringent bandwidth performance demands on IP-based applications. Applications based on traditional single-core based equipment cannot sustain multi 10Gbps of complex traffic. Multicore technology provides a sophisticated and powerful communications layer to offload networking performance concerns.

However, migrating existing applications to multicore requires a specific process addressing the following requirements:

Analyze existing architecture and APIs between application and networking layer Analyze performance bottlenecks to identify the network protocols to be offloaded Analyze migration constraints Identify the additional functional benefits that can be provided by a powerful multicore-based architecture Choose the best architecture (dedicated hardware for front-end processing, sharing cores between application and networking layer…) to achieve the expected level of performance while maximizing software reuse and minimizing costs and impact on application validation Provide the right solution within a short period of time to reduce time to market

6WINDPath Service

The 6WINDPath service leverages multiple strengths - 6WIND's market-leading expertise and knowledge in multicore architectures and the 6WINDGate software solutions - to enable specific results for scaling applications using multicore technology to meet today's and tomorrow's network growth requirements.

Our 6WINDPath service analyses your requirements and provides you with a customized solution to your needs based on 6WINDGate technology.

6WINDPath Application Note is available here.

Applications

Ideal for high performance applications, the 6WINDPath service ensures this performance with multicore for a myriad of applications:

• Security Gateways, UTM Appliances
  
• IPTV
  
• Content Inspection
  
• IMS, VoIP & ToIP
  
• Wireless: 3G, WiMAX, LTE
  
• Billing Systems
  

Key Benefits

• Remove networking performance bottlenecks to meet demanding performance requirements legacy applications and equipment can no longer support
  
• Enable a scalable network offload engine with multicore to focus networking functionalities on an architecture capable of addressing all network traffic growth scenarios
  
• Specifically designed as a scalable solution to meet gradual or multiple highest performance requirements for all IP-based applications
  
• Use 6WIND's proven 6WINDGate multicore technology - adopted and used by the majority of tier one telecommunications equipment providers - to move applications to higher network performance architectures
  
• Ready-to-implement complete Layer 2 through Layer 4 networking functions, hides multicore complexity, simplifies migration to multicore architectures and maximizes software reuse with no performance penalties. Modular set of features, optimized for multicore.