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French networking software company From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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6WIND (/ˈsɪkswɪnd/) 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.
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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 two 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]
In November 2022, 6WIND announced a strategic partnership with IP-Tribe in APAC.[22]
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