6WIND explained

6WIND
Key People:Julien Dahan, CEO
Industry:Software
Products:Virtual Service Routers, 6WINDCloud, Virtual Host Accelerator, 6WINDGate
Location City:Paris
Location Country:France
Locations:United States, United Kingdom, Singapore

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 users.[18] 6WIND 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 two articles from The Register and SDxCentral comparing 6WIND with dedicated equipment and explaining how the solution helped a Spanish ISP to become SDN ready.[20] [21]

In November 2022, 6WIND announced an strategic partnership with IP-Tribe in APAC.[22]

See also

Notes and References

  1. News: Sofinnova Partners announces a €5 million second investment round to support the development of 6WIND . Press release . Sofinnova Partners . February 9, 2004 . March 8, 2017 .
  2. http://www.eetimes.com/electronics-news/4190686/Wind-River-6Wind-partner-on-multicore-CPUs Wind River, 6Wind partner on multicore CPUs
  3. Anne-Francoise Pele. "6Wind joins Emerson's partnership program", November 18, 2008.
  4. Web site: 2016-04-13 . Kalray and 6WIND Announce New Partnership . 2023-07-02 . finanznachrichten.de.
  5. News: 6WIND Turbo IPsec Performance Certified on Hewlett Packard Enterprise ProLiant Servers for Cost-effective Security Gateway Solutions for All Size Networks . February 2, 2016 . Press release . March 8, 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160603160848/http://www.broadcastnewsroom.com/article/6WIND-Turbo-IPsec-Performance-Certified-on-Hewlett-Packard-Enterprise-ProLiant-Servers-for-Cost-effective-Security-Gateway-Solutions-for-All-Size-Networks-4273845 . June 3, 2016 . dead .
  6. Web site: Dell introduces new NFV platform, starter kits - FierceWireless. www.fiercewireless.com.
  7. Web site: Nestor . Marius . 2015-12-07 . Canonical Partners with 6WIND to Accelerate the Growth of Ubuntu Cloud Networking . 2023-07-02 . softpedia.com.
  8. Web site: Alcatel-Lucent signs agreements with Red Hat, Advantech and 6WIND to accelerate delivery of virtualized radio access networks. 15 December 2015. 11 May 2016. 11 June 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160611044952/https://www.alcatel-lucent.com/press/2015/alcatel-lucent-signs-agreements-red-hat-advantech-and-6wind-accelerate-delivery-virtualized-radio. dead.
  9. News: 6WIND Announces dpdk.org Open-Source Project to Accelerate Development of Intel Architecture-Based Networking Products . Press release . April 9, 2013 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160604020605/http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/4/prweb10612220.htm . dead . June 4, 2016 . March 8, 2017 .
  10. News: 6WIND Now #1 Supplier of Networking Software for LTE Infrastructure, Extends Product Line to Cloud Infrastructure Solutions . Press release . February 13, 2012 . Janine E. Mooney . March 8, 2017 .
  11. News: SDN/NFV Wars: Cisco tries to put the breeze up HP by blowing money into French company 6Wind . Martyn Warwick . Telecom TV . 2014 . March 8, 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170126172845/http://www.telecomtv.com/articles/network-innovation/sdn-nfv-wars-cisco-tries-to-put-the-breeze-up-hp-by-blowing-money-into-french-company-6wind-12617/ . January 26, 2017 . dead .
  12. News: Cisco slings simoleons at software-defined networking biz 6Wind . Richard Chirgwin . July 7, 2015 . The Channel . March 8, 2017 .
  13. Web site: 6WIND Offering Accelerated L3 Virtual Appliances . Sponsored blog posting . Packet Pushers . October 21, 2015 . March 8, 2017 .
  14. News: Radware, 6Wind Team on Virtual Acceleration . Press release . April 19, 2016 . March 8, 2017 .
  15. News: Radware's Virtual Alteon ADC Achieves Industry Highest Performance in OpenStack Environment . Press release . April 26, 2016 . March 8, 2017 .
  16. Web site: Blazing performance with 6WIND Speed Series Turbo Appliances . September 24, 2015 . SDx Central web site . March 8, 2017 .
  17. News: Italian SP Deploys Homemade SDN Appliance . February 17, 2015 . Light Reading . Mitch Wagner . March 8, 2017 .
  18. Web site: 2017-08-24 . 6WIND Lures Brocade vRouter Customers Left Out in Cold . 2023-07-02 . sdxcentral.com.
  19. Web site: 2017-08-25 . 6WIND Offers Replacement Program for Dead Brocade vRouter - Packet Pushers . 2023-07-02 . packetpushers.net.
  20. Web site: Be The Packet. Take each hop it makes. Your network will repay you. Richard. Chirgwin. 1 July 2018. The Register.
  21. Web site: Spanish ISP Replaces Cisco Hardware Routers With 6WIND vRouter. SDxCentral.
  22. Web site: 2022-11-29 . 6WIND and IP-Tribe announce Strategic Partnership in APAC . 2023-07-02 . Yahoo Finance . en-US.

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