Telecom Infrastructure Networking Expert
6WIND leads technical innovation by helping customers migrate from expensive proprietary hardware to software networking appliances. For the past decade, worldwide customers rely on 6WIND’s routing, security and TCP networking stacks to design the highest performing networking equipment in the industry.
DPDK.org
In 2013, 6WIND launched the DPDK.org (Data Plane Development Kit) open source project before successfully transferring it to the Linux Foundation in 2017. Initially designed for Intel architectures, DPDK is now the de facto framework to provide standardized services for high performance packet processing and a networking foundation for 5G.
6WIND’s flagship 6WINDGate foundation is high performance packet processing software designed natively on DPDK. 6WINDGate has been successfully deployed in 3G and 4G mobile infrastructure by major telecom equipment providers for EPC and vEPC including NEC and Mavenir and many more. Today, 6WIND helps its customers smoothly transition to 5G architectures.
Next Generation Foundation for Telecom Infrastructure
Acceleration of all data plane features required for telecom infrastructure including switching, routing, encapsulation, firewall, IPsec, QoS, PPP, L2TP, CG-NAT, TCP and more for a wide range of environments (bare metal, virtual machines, containers, public clouds).
Industry’s highest performance stacks to meet telecom infrastructure requirements.
Linux-friendly architecture helps developers focus on application-level software to quickly differentiate their products and shorten time-to-market.
Complete and extensible NETCONF / YANG management architecture for installation, configuration, monitoring and analytics.
Support for Intel and Arm platforms.
Telecom Infrastructure Requirements
To manage cost and performance challenges, telecom operators must evolve existing network architectures to reduce capital expenses, scale flexible networking architectures and accelerate service creation.
Today, high performance specialized hardware equipment can be replaced by white-box hardware and a virtualized or containerized architecture to instantiate networking functions and applications (routing, security, firewall, BNG, CG-NAT, load-balancing, etc.).
However, networking software running on COTS servers has to achieve the required level of performance for telecom infrastructure. This is now possible with optimized networking stacks like 6WINDGate that scale very efficiently on multicore platforms. For instance, 6WINDGate can forward 12 million packets per second per core with minimal latency, or encrypt 12 Gbps with a single processor core.
The same 6WINDGate software can be used as a high-performance networking foundation for telecom infrastructure equipment in different use cases including bare metal, virtualized or containerized software network appliances that can also be instantiated in public clouds. 6WINDGate can also be used to accelerate network performance in the hypervisor layer for virtualized solutions.
Beyond performance, 6WINDGate provides a complete management layer (NETCONF, CLI), automated deployment capabilities and complete visibility on the telecom infrastructure stack for real-time diagnosis.
