Virtual Carrier-Grade NAT Router
6WIND Virtual CGNAT® enables a smooth transition to IPv6 and allows service providers to efficiently extend their IPv4 networks. It aggregates multiple millions of concurrent connections and scales the bandwidth performance from 1G to over 400G.
Highlights
30 Million simultaneous connections per 32G of RAM (scales with memory)
200,000 connections per second per core (scales with the number of cores)
35Gbps per CPU core (@IMIX), scalable, over 400G per single instance
Bare metal deployments on Intel® Xeon® and Atom® based servers
Virtual machine deployments on VMware ESXi, Linux KVM and Amazon Web Services
1G to 100G Ethernet support includes Intel, Mellanox and Broadcom NICs
CLI and NETCONF/YANG management options with YANG-based NETCONF APIs
Monitoring through YANG-based KPIs that can be exported to a Time-Series Database and analytics dashboard
Advanced logging through syslog can be integrated with logging platforms

Virtualized Carrier-Grade Network Address Translation
The adoption of Service Defined Networks drives the need for virtualized network functions to provide flexible and scalable networking capabilities. The 6WIND vCGNAT solution along with the other 6WIND VSR solutions is designed to run as VNF and provide high-performance and scalable networking functions delivering routing, and large-scale NAT capabilities.
Why 6WIND Virtual CGNAT?
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VSR product suite
The 6WIND vPE Router delivers reliable IP/MPLS edge services for enterprises and service providers, enabling high-availability internet connectivity.
See product detailsThe 6WIND vBR, part of the VSR suite, ensures optimal routing with high scalability, performance, and low convergence time.
See product details6WIND’s vCPE router provides software-based and virtualized routing and security functions on a universal CPE
See product details6WIND’s vBNG delivers high-performance routing and subscriber management, enabling scalable, reliable broadband access and optimized user experiences in modern networks.
See product details6WIND User Plane Function (UPF) is designed to facilitate seamless and high-performance data transmission between devices and the network.
See product detailsThe 6WIND vCSR, part of the VSR suite, runs as a VNF or CNF on x86 and ARM COTS servers, providing the performance and features needed for RAN traffic aggregation.
See product detailsThe 6WIND vSecGW Router, part of the VSR suite, delivers scalable, high-performance security to address end-to-end protection needs for CSPs and enterprises.
See product detailsThe 6WIND vCGNAT Router delivers high-scale NAT to address IPv4 exhaustion, deployable on COTS servers across bare-metal, virtual, and cloud environments.
See product detailsThe 6WIND vFW Router, part of the VSR suite, is a high-performance L3/L4 firewall delivering scalable, efficient security for virtualized and cloud environments.
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