Software Implementation
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By David Le Goff - 6WIND Product Marketing Manager
Until recently, network appliances targeted for both carrier and enterprise applications were designed around specific hardware platforms. To ensure maximum performance and optimum functionality, the appliance software was configured and optimized for a one-time combination of processor, NIC, memory and board, typically single-sourced from unique suppliers. This approach requires the investment of significant engineering expertise to bring to market Read More »
By David Le Goff - 6WIND Product Marketing Manager
Developers of high-end networking equipment for enterprise, cloud and mobile infrastructure applications are challenged to deliver on-going performance improvements while maintaining small form-factors. A standard Linux networking stack uses services provided by the Operating System and is subject to significant overheads associated with functions such as preemptions, threads, timers and locking. These overheads may be imposed on each packet passing Read More »
By David Le Goff - 6WIND Product Marketing Manager
Today’s enterprise-class security appliances need to secure and manage hundreds of thousands of connections, within applications such as enterprise and public/private cloud data centers. Advanced security features are required to address the increasing sophistication of threats, requiring ever-increasing levels of security processing within standard equipment form-factors.
The standard Linux OS is inefficient for high-performance security solutions, Read More »
By David Le Goff - 6WIND Product Marketing Manager
IP network security challenges
IP Security (IPsec) was developed to integrate security into IP networks which did not provide any native support for security. IPsec provides authentication (session management) and data confidentiality (encryption/decryption) at Layer 3.
IPsec is actually a suite of protocols, including IKE (Internet Key Exchange), AH (Authentication Header) and ESP (Encapsulating Security Payload) amongst others and the IPsec Read More »
By David Le Goff - 6WIND Product Marketing Manager
New data center architecture
The traditional hierarchical client-server architecture is no longer optimal for data centers. Web-focused applications distributed across multiple layers (such as presentation, business logic, database and storage) require high-bandwidth networking services with minimal latency to support “East-West” traffic.
Given cost constraints along with the lack of visibility into the future mix of applications or the growth Read More »
By David Le Goff - 6WIND Product Marketing Manager
Given the worldwide escalation in network traffic along with the growth in mobile collaboration, service providers face well-understood challenges to apply innovative, flexible networking technologies to efficiently scale their networks. At the same time, they must better manage their subscribers’ Quality of Experience (QoE) while controlling their costs in terms of both CAPEX and OPEX.
Although multicore processor technology has existed for Read More »
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