6WIND Virtual Accelerator® software provides a solution to power the hypervisor with the required features for virtual networking infrastructure used in Network Function Virtualization (NFV), Data Center Virtualization or Network Appliance Virtualization use cases.
Virtual Accelerator
6WIND Virtual Accelerator® is a host network acceleration software that provides a solution to power the virtual networking infrastructure with the required features, performance and scalability. Used in Network Function Virtualization infrastructure (NFVi), Data Center Virtualization or Network Appliance Virtualization use cases.
Rich features including layer 2 and 3
Optimize resource consumption at NFVi
Boost virtualization capabilities
High Performance and scalability
Features
A fully supported DPDK-based software data plane available since 2013
Line rate hypervisor networking
Accelerated virtual switching (Open vSwitch and Linux bridge) and networking (Overlays for multi-tenancy, L3 routing, VRF, ACLs, NAT, IPsec, QoS, TCP offloads and more)
Preserves standard Linux commands (tcpdump, iptables, IPsec/XFRM, etc.) for ease of deployment and operation
Supports standard network management tools including OpenStack and SDN controllers
Supports existing and unmodified workloads through standard Virtio drivers
Scalable software-based switching enables Service Chaining
No SR-IOV or PCI Passthrough
Increase VM density and performance on COTS servers
Popular use cases include uCPE and Software-defined Networking (SDN) virtual routing and switching solutions. It is deployed in the KVM hypervisor to offer a high performance alternative to SR-IOV and PCI passthrough that break virtualization.