6WIND Demonstrates Virtual Accelerator for NFV Infrastructure at HP Discover
Barcelona, Spain (PRWEB) December 02, 2014 -- 6WIND, a high-performance software company, today announced that it will demonstrate Virtual Accelerator, the first product in its new Speed Series family, at HP Discover. 6WIND Virtual Accelerator provides accelerated virtual switching and networking features for virtual infrastructures to enable Network Functions Virtualization (NFV), data center virtualization and network appliance virtualization. At HP Discover, 6WIND will demonstrate wire speed 240 Gbps aggregate bandwidth on an HP server running an IP Router Virtual Machine (VM).
6WIND Virtual Accelerator runs within the hypervisor domain with a hardware-independent architecture that allows new and existing VMs to be integrated quickly onto x86-based servers. As the industry’s only transparent virtual infrastructure acceleration solution, 6WIND Virtual Accelerator is provided as a simple software package so that customers do not have to replace or modify existing software such as Open vSwitch (OVS), Linux, Hypervisors and OpenStack® technology.
The networking and telecom industries are undergoing a transformation due to advances with virtualization on standard servers that promise cost savings, scalability and flexibility. However, if the proper software architecture is not deployed on servers with the transition to new generation architecture, competitive advantage and time-to-market can be lost because performance and functionality will decrease versus specialized equipment. 6WIND Virtual Accelerator maximizes virtual infrastructure throughput to enable dozens of high bandwidth, or hundreds of low bandwidth, virtual applications on a server.
6WIND is an HP OpenNFV Program technology partner, which provides it access to HP’s open standards-based NFV reference architecture and HP industry-standard products and capabilities, enabling it to quickly develop applications for cloud-enabled NFV deployments.
Enabling Virtualization for Content Delivery Networks
6WIND developed a vCDN (virtual Content Delivery Network) use case whereby 6WIND Virtual Accelerator is combined with the TCP Termination module within 6WIND’s 6WINDGate™ packet processing software. The 6WINDGate TCP stack enables developers to create high performance vCDN applications sustaining over 100 million concurrent TCP connections, combined with Virtual Accelerator on top of HP NFV servers to reduce capital expense, scale network architectures and accelerate service creation. For more about 6WIND and HP’s TCP Termination benchmark visit: http://www.6wind.com/news-events/press-releases-2014/6wind-press-release-september-9/
6WIND Virtual Accelerator delivers:
• Network hardware independence for seamless hardware upgrades, including 10G to 40G to 100G ports
• Wire speed performance required to enable high density, compute intensive VMs on a single server
• Flexible virtual switching support for Open vSwitch and Linux bridge with no modifications
• Complete virtual networking infrastructure with VLAN, VXLAN, Virtual Routing, IP Forwarding, Filtering and NAT
• Native Virtio support for VMs based on different OSs
• High bandwidth for VM to VM communications required for Service Chaining
• Transparent orchestration support for OpenStack technology
“6WIND enables NFV on HP’s servers by providing the infrastructure to support high density and compute intensive virtual applications as required by use cases such as vCDN,” said Eric Carmès, CEO and Founder of 6WIND. “Our Virtual Accelerator can seamlessly provide HP customers with the required combination of hardware independence, performance, features, VM integration and management as a simple software update with no modifications to their existing architecture.”
“By deploying 6WIND’s Virtual Accelerator on HP servers, customers can increase VM bandwidth and density and enable the transition to NFV,” said Claus Pedersen, director, Server Telco and NFV, at HP. “Our joint performance benchmark testing demonstrates how the combination of 6WIND software technology and HP Servers can enable the highest possible performance for NFV use cases such as vCDN. This provides the right compute for the right workload at the right economics for data center and network virtualization for HP’s telecommunication customers and marks another important milestone in HP’s compute strategy.”
6WIND Virtual Accelerator is available for 1, 2 and 4 socket Intel x86-based servers with DPDK, multi-vendor NICs and major Linux distributions.
6WIND Virtual Accelerator will be demonstrated at HP Discover in Barcelona, December 2-4, 2014 in 6WIND’s booth in Hall 5, Stand 611. 6WIND VP of Business Development François-Frédéric Ozog will present in the HP NFV Guru Bar on December 2nd at 3:30 pm and December 3rd and 4th at 1:30 pm. For more information on 6WIND Virtual Accelerator, please visit: http://www.6wind.com/products/6wind-virtual-accelerator/
For more information on the vCDN use case with 6WIND Virtual Accelerator, 6WINDGate TCP stack and HP servers, please see the Light Reading white paper at: http://www.6wind.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/6WIND-HP-Virtual-CDN.pdf
About 6WIND
6WIND’s commercial software solves performance challenges for network vendors in telecom, enterprise and cloud infrastructure markets. The company’s packet processing software is optimized for cost-effective hardware running Linux with a choice of multicore processors to deliver a wide variety of networking and security protocols and features. By solving critical data plane performance challenges on multicore architectures, 6WIND enables a cost-effective value proposition, enabling the transition to the future with network functions virtualization (NFV). 6WIND is based near Paris, France with regional offices in China, Japan, South Korea and the United States. For more information, visit http://www.6wind.com.
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Kelly LeBlanc, 6WIND, http://www.6wind.com, +1 (408) 203-2608, [email protected]
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