Virtual Carrier-Grade NAT Router (vCGNAT)
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.
Virtual CGNAT
6WIND vCGNAT Router provides network address translation capabilities at a high scale to handle internet IPv4 address exhaustion. It is deployed bare-metal, virtualized, or containerized on COTS servers in private and public clouds.
Carrier- grade product
Rich features set
High scalability and performance
Optimized resource usage
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?
vCGNAT
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.
VSR Product Suite
vPE
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vCSR
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Virtual Security Gateway
6WIND Virtual Security Gateway is a product that provides security capabilities along with performance and scalability to address end-to-end security challenges for service providers and enterprises.
vBR
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vCPE Router
The 6WIND vCPE Router is a virtualized routing solution adapted for Universal Customer Premises Equipment (uCPE). It runs as a virtualized network function (VNF) to deliver cost effective and highly efficient routing, security and virtual private network connectivity services on simple, inexpensive, on-site x86 devices.
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