New Challenges in
System Integration
Designing systems has dramatically changed
over the years. Even the largest companies no longer build a system
from all in-house components, instead relying on system integration,
components and solutions from other vendors to piece it all together.
As such, controlling system development costs requires using as
many existing building blocks as possible to reduce investments.
Standards have helped to provide interoperable off-the-shelf hardware,
middleware and software, in turn helping to control costs and design
obstacles.
Today, players are focused on their value-added
offering - their slice of the puzzle for system integrators to piece
it all together. At each level, this evolution continues: the telecom
market has network operators moving to the services business; tier-1
equipment manufacturers are providing a complete infrastructure
solution; and board manufacturers are delivering integrated systems
based on key technologies provided by component providers.
A Multicore-Based Communications
Layer
With the nature of systems today being distributed,
their communications layer has become a mission-critical component,
whether an Internet service or military application-oriented service.
In telecommunications, the communications layer has the highest
degree of sophistication. For example, in a wireless infrastructure
the number of subsystems can include access network equipment, infrastructure
network equipment, IMS, media gateways, interconnection gateways,
session controllers, authentication servers, billing systems, lawful
interception, and more. Each one is its own complex system including
packet processing, security, deep packet inspection, complex control
plane protocols, applications, and management layers.
At the heart of all this, is the adoption of
multicore technology to harness the needed processing capabilities
and to offer a high level of integration with less power consumption.
A ready to use multicore-based networking layer is now necessary
to cut design costs and time and is also a requirement for designing
systems with a high performance communications layer.
6WINDGate™: A
Ready-to-Use Multicore Networking Layer for System Integrators
Key building block components of a multicore-based system
Migration to multicore is not simple as it introduces
new design complexities that lead to difficult integration and development.
6WIND's solution - 6WINDGate - specifically addresses such design
challenges for telecom and datacom applications. 6WINDGate is the
only solution in the market offering ready to use embedded networking
features and application integration capabilities that truly cuts
design costs and expedites designing and deploying services upon
equipment using multicore.
6WINDGate delivers key requirements for a ready-to-use multicore
networking layer
6WINDGate is available in three different versions
(6WINDGate ADS, EDS and SDS) to suit any small or large performance
requirements from telecom equipment manufacturers.
6WINDGate scalable software suite to build a complete range systems
A description of 6WINDGate profiles can be found
here.
Sample System Applications
S-CSCF for IMS
6WINDGate can be integrated in S-CSCF (Serving-Call Session Control
Function) with SIP server software on a hardware platform provided
by our partners. This platform can be - as an example - an ATCA
chassis with an Intel Application Processing Units and Cavium Octeon
Packet Processing Units. 6WINDGate would provide the high performance
Fast Path including traffic load balancing and a Linux networking
stack to offload SIP servers. 6WINDGate can be smoothly integrated
with existing SIP servers.
S-CSCF (Serving-Call Session Control Function) architecture using
6WINDGate
WiMAX ASN Gateway
A WiMAX ASN Gateway can greatly benefit from 6WINDGate's architecture
and feature set. This system can use - as an example - a dual ATCA
blade architecture, each blade implementing two multi-core processors
(one for Fast Path, one for Slow path and the Control Plane) to
provide high availability features.
WiMAX ASN Gateway architecture using 6WINDGate
The two previous examples can be extended to
a large number of systems requiring a high performance communications
layer such as access gateways, security gateways, UTM appliances,
content inspection, IMs or billing systems among many others.
6WINDGate Benefits
Across the Value Chain
6WINDGate is an ideal solution for system integrators
to provide high value added services to solution providers. It maximizes
and accelerates any system integrator's ROI.
Benefits of 6WINDGate in the value chain
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