Don’t Forget the Data Plane Challenges as You Plan for NFV
Between two and three hundred people attended the ETSI Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) meeting in Santa Clara last month. As expected, there was a strong turnout from the telecom service providers who started the NFV initiative in late 2012, while many other companies were also represented such as network equipment manufacturers, system integrators, software companies and processor suppliers. The overall impression was that key service providers are strongly committed to NFV, with the...
read moreLooking Forward To Interop
By Charlie Ashton, VP of Marketing and Business Development at 6WIND For me, the last two weeks have been like a total immersion class on Software-defined Networking (SDN) and Network Functions Virtualization (NFV). Last week, 6WIND exhibited at the Open Networking Summit (ONS), held in Santa Clara, where I also attended as many sessions as possible. Earlier this week, I attended the second ETSI ISG meeting on NFV, also in Santa Clara. ONS 2013 was a deep dive into the current status of...
read more6WIND Announces dpdk.org Open-Source Project
By Eric Carmes - 6WIND Founder and CEO In a recent post, I summarized a number of announcements that 6WIND recently made involving key industry partners. I also announced that 6WIND will lead other major industry initiatives to bring compelling solutions for the industry to accelerate networking and telecom transformation. 6WIND is proud to announce the establishment of the dpdk.org open-source project to accelerate development of Intel® Data Plane Development Kit (Intel® DPDK)...
read moreVirtual Switch Acceleration Boosts VM Density in Data Centers
By Charlie Ashton, VP of Marketing and Business Development at 6WIND This week, 6WIND announced extensions to the 6WINDGate™ networking software that deliver a 10x performance improvement for virtual switches. These new capabilities address three critical scalability challenges faced by service providers operating public/private cloud data centers as well as telecom infrastructure architected around Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) concepts. The first scalability challenge relates...
read moreAccelerating the Transformation of Telecom and Networking
By Eric Carmes - 6WIND Founder and CEO 6WIND recently made a number of announcements involving key industry partners, including: 6WIND’s participation in the Intel-HP SPECTRUM program, a community of hardware and software developers that focus on solutions to challenges in the telecommunications market segment; 6WIND provides an integrated networking solution based on 6WINDGate™ for powerful HP ProLiant servers utilizing Intel® Xeon® processors. Integration of 6WINDGate software...
read moreNFV: A Hot Topic at Mobile World Congress 2013
By Eric Carmes - 6WIND Founder and CEO NFV (Network Function Virtualization) was obviously one of the hottest topics at MWC 2013. Several use cases were demoed by tier-1 platform vendors, telecom equipment manufacturers, service providers and operators to show the benefits of the NFV concept. These use cases can be classified into two categories. The first one is the migration of functions traditionally located in at the customer premises into the operator’s infrastructure. One...
read moreWelcome to the new 6WIND blog
By Charlie Ashton, VP of Marketing - 6WIND Welcome to the new 6WIND Blog! Just in time for Mobile World Congress and RSA Conference, we are launching www.6windblog.com as a replacement for the Multicore Packet Processing Forum. As 6WIND’s business has evolved over the past few years, we have recognized that the value we bring to our customers is much more than just the support of multicore architectures, though that remains an integral part of our solution. Our customers see...
read moreData Center Security Challenges Require Advanced Networking Functions on Server Blades
By Charlie Ashton, VP of Marketing - 6WIND Within both public and private cloud data centers, the number of Virtual Machines per server blade is increasing rapidly, leveraging on-going improvements in the performance of the x86 processors used on those blades. Today, a typical server blade in a service provider data center hosts at least 50 VMs, with that number expected to grow to hundreds within a few years. Because of this growth in the number of VMs running on each server blade, the...
read more6WIND Provides Valuable Enhancements for the Intel® DPDK
By Eric Carmes - 6WIND Founder and CEO A few years ago, Intel released its Data Plane Development Kit (Intel® DPDK) software. The DPDK library is provided to OEMs under a BSD licensing model, enabling the design of high performance networking software based on either pipelined or run-to-completion architectures. It runs in Linux userspace, providing optimizations for Intel® architecture platforms such as data plane libraries, optimized NIC drivers (queue and buffer management, packet flow,...
read moreLTE Core Network Virtualization is Key to Improving OPEX for Service Providers
By Charlie Ashton, VP of Marketing - 6WIND In 2012, service providers worldwide continued their aggressive rollout of LTE networks, with 105 operators in 48 countries having launched LTE commercially by the end of October. In total, over 350 network operators have invested or soon will invest in LTE. Overall, LTE is on a faster growth trajectory than any other mobile technology, projected to reach a billion connections in just over seven years (in 2017), whereas GSM took GSM twelve years to...
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