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Accelerating the Transformation of Telecom and Networking

Accelerating 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 with Read More »

Insights into SDN for Service Providers at Linley Carrier Conference

By Charlie Ashton, VP of Marketing - 6WIND This week I attended the Linley Tech Carrier Conference in San Jose. There were many interesting presentations on trends in Cloud RAN and HetNets, along with details of new basestation SoCs and network processors. Given 6WIND’s focus on solutions for Software-Defined Networking (SDN), I was especially interested in a presentation by Christos Kolias, Research Scientist at Orange, on “Service Providers in the Era of Software-Defined Networking”. Kolias Read More »

Observations From InfoSecurity Europe 2012

By David Le Goff - 6WIND Product Marketing Manager I spent a day recently at InfoSecurity in London (http://www.infosec.co.uk/) which with over 12,000 visitors is one of Europe’s largest security conferences. I talked with many exhibitors about network security along with their challenges in migrating from proprietary environments to more flexible platforms, based on x86 processors and with virtualized architectures. It seems that the security market is working hard to bring more agility to network Read More »

Insights into Cisco’s Software Defined Networking Strategy at Interop

By Charlie Ashton, VP of Marketing - 6WIND I spent a day this week at Interop in Las Vegas. Interop is always a fascinating show because it covers the whole range of products and technologies that can loosely be termed as “networking”. The exhibits span everything from cables and server enclosures to high-end networking equipment and a wealth of cloud-related software. Given 6WIND’s focus on Software Defined Networking (SDN), it was interesting to see a significant focus on this topic, as Read More »

High-Performance Packet Processing is Key Enabler for SDN and OpenFlow

By Eric Carmes - 6WIND Founder and CEO In a recent post, Charlie summarized his discussions at the Open Networking Summit. The conference covered a wide range of business and technical subjects relating to Software Defined Networks (SDN), with the topic of OpenFlow receiving particular attention in the networking industry. Last month I visited Japan and made a presentation about 6WIND’s technology to a group of Japanese journalists. Japan is one of the countries with the highest penetration of Read More »

6WIND’s New Solution for the Cloud Network Infrastructure Market

By Eric Carmes - 6WIND Founder and CEO This week, 6WIND announced 6WINDGate™ Cloud Edition, an extension to its 6WINDGate software product line that addresses the needs of cloud infrastructure providers (Press Release). In this post, I would like to explain why 6WIND, having become the #1 supplier of high-performance networking software for LTE infrastructure, will address the needs of cloud network infrastructure providers and how 6WIND’s solution is uniquely positioned for this market. 6WINDGate Read More »