6WIND

6WIND
Industry Software
Founded September 1, 2000 (2000-09-01)
Founder Eric Carmès
Headquarters Montigny-le-Bretonneux, France
Number of locations
 China, Japan, South Korea and the United States
Products 6WINDGate, 6WIND Virtual Accelerator, 6WIND Turbo Router, 6WIND Turbo IPsec
Website www.6wind.com

6WIND is a French company marketing high performance-networking software. The company is privately held and headquartered in the West Paris area, in Montigny-le-Bretonneux. 6WIND has a US subsidiary, sales and support offices in Japan and South Korea, and research and development in China. The company provides packet processing software for physical and virtual Linux networks applications. Its offerings included source code, also marketed as network function virtualization (NFV).

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]

See also

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. ↑ acceleration technology on data centers
  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. Retrieved March 8, 2017.
  6. ↑ Dell NFV Platform Starter Kit
  7. ↑ Cloud Networking acceleration
  8. ↑ vRAN technology
  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. 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.
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