6WIND

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6WIND
IndustrySoftware
FoundedSeptember 1, 2000 (2000-09-01)
Headquarters
Paris
,
France
Number of locations
United States, United Kingdom, Singapore
Key people
Julien Dahan, CEO
ProductsVirtual Service Routers, 6WINDCloud, Virtual Host Accelerator, 6WINDGate

6WIND is a Virtual Networking Software company delivering disaggregated and cloud-native solutions to CSPs and Enterprises globally. The company is privately held and headquartered in the West Paris area, in Montigny-le-Bretonneux. 6WIND has a global presence with offices in the US and APAC. The company provides Virtualized Networking Software which is deployed in bare-metal or in virtual machines on COTS servers in public & private clouds. Their solutions are disaggregated and containerized based on the Cloud-Native Architecture.

History[]

6WIND was founded in 2000 as a spin-out from Thales Group (previously Thomson-CSF), a provider of electronics for aerospace, defense and security. A 3.75 million Euro investment from Sofinnova Partners and others was announced in 2004, and 5 million Euros in 2004.[1] Partners include Red Hat, VMware and Wind River Systems.[2] Equipment vendors that provide boards and systems utilizing 6WIND software include Emerson Network Power.[3]

Other partners include: Kalray for data centers,[4] Hewlett-Packard for acceleration technology on ProLiant servers,[5] Dell,[6] Canonical,[7] Alcatel-Lucent for Red Hat Enterprise Linux.[8]

In April 2013, the company announced it would support an open-source software project for the Data Plane Development Kit from Intel.[9] In early 2012, 6WIND introduced a mobile edition and cloud edition of 6WINDGate, for 4G mobile phone companies and cloud computing.[10]

The company announced its Speed Series of packaged software in late 2014, marketed for network function virtualization (NFV). A product called 6WIND Virtual Accelerator allowing hypervisor scaling. A venture capital investment from Cisco Systems was announced in 2014.[11][12] In 2015, the company announced its Turbo Router Turbo IPsec software.[13]

In 2016 Radware said that their Aleon NG VA product used a product of the company along with OpenStack.[14][15] That same year Mirantis announced integration with 6WIND for data centers and NFV.

The company promotes its performance by publishing performance tests.[16]

In 2015 Light Reading mentioned that 6WIND software allowed Italian service provider NGI to build a router marketed for software-defined networking.[17]

In August 2017, 6WIND announced a "replacement program" for Brocade vRouter users.[18] 6WIND vRouter is based on DPDK traffic runs in the fast path outside of the Linux kernel, avoiding potential Linux kernel processing bottlenecks.[19] This announcement has been followed by 2 articles from The Register and SDxCentral comparing 6WIND with dedicated equipment and explaining how the vRouter solution helped a Spanish ISP to become SDN ready.[20][21]

See also[]

  • Packet processing

References[]

  1. ^ "Sofinnova Partners announces a €5 million second investment round to support the development of 6WIND". Press release. Sofinnova Partners. February 9, 2004. Retrieved March 8, 2017.
  2. ^ EETimes. " Wind River, 6Wind partner on multicore CPUs", January 14, 2008.
  3. ^ Anne-Francoise Pele. "6Wind joins Emerson's partnership program", November 18, 2008.
  4. ^ "Kalray and 6WIND Announce New Partnership".
  5. ^ "6WIND Turbo IPsec Performance Certified on Hewlett Packard Enterprise ProLiant Servers for Cost-effective Security Gateway Solutions for All Size Networks". Press release. February 2, 2016. Archived from the original on June 3, 2016. Retrieved March 8, 2017.
  6. ^ "Dell introduces new NFV platform, starter kits - FierceWireless". www.fiercewireless.com.
  7. ^ Nestor, Marius. "Canonical Partners with 6WIND to Accelerate the Growth of Ubuntu Cloud Networking".
  8. ^ "Alcatel-Lucent signs agreements with Red Hat, Advantech and 6WIND to accelerate delivery of virtualized radio access networks". 15 December 2015.
  9. ^ "6WIND Announces dpdk.org Open-Source Project to Accelerate Development of Intel Architecture-Based Networking Products". Press release. April 9, 2013. Retrieved March 8, 2017.
  10. ^ Janine E. Mooney (February 13, 2012). "6WIND Now #1 Supplier of Networking Software for LTE Infrastructure, Extends Product Line to Cloud Infrastructure Solutions". Press release. Retrieved March 8, 2017.
  11. ^ Martyn Warwick (2014). "SDN/NFV Wars: Cisco tries to put the breeze up HP by blowing money into French company 6Wind". Telecom TV. Archived from the original on January 26, 2017. Retrieved March 8, 2017.
  12. ^ Richard Chirgwin (July 7, 2015). "Cisco slings simoleons at software-defined networking biz 6Wind". The Channel. Retrieved March 8, 2017.
  13. ^ "6WIND Offering Accelerated L3 Virtual Appliances". Sponsored blog posting. Packet Pushers. October 21, 2015. Retrieved March 8, 2017.
  14. ^ "Radware, 6Wind Team on Virtual Acceleration". Press release. April 19, 2016. Retrieved March 8, 2017.
  15. ^ "Radware's Virtual Alteon ADC Achieves Industry Highest Performance in OpenStack Environment". Press release. April 26, 2016. Retrieved March 8, 2017.
  16. ^ "Blazing performance with 6WIND Speed Series Turbo Appliances". SDx Central web site. September 24, 2015. Retrieved March 8, 2017.
  17. ^ Mitch Wagner (February 17, 2015). "Italian SP Deploys Homemade SDN Appliance". Light Reading. Retrieved March 8, 2017.
  18. ^ "6WIND Lures Brocade vRouter Customers Left Out in Cold".
  19. ^ "6WIND Offers Replacement Program for Dead Brocade vRouter - Packet Pushers". packetpushers.net.
  20. ^ Chirgwin, Richard (1 July 2018). "Be The Packet. Take each hop it makes. Your network will repay you". The Register.
  21. ^ "Spanish ISP Replaces Cisco Hardware Routers With 6WIND vRouter". SDxCentral.
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