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,...
read moreHigh-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...
read moreFascinating Discussions About OpenFlow at Open Networking Summit
By Charlie Ashton, VP of Marketing - 6WIND I spent a couple of days last week at the Open Networking Summit in Santa Clara. The conference covered a wide range of business and technical subjects relating to Software Defined Networks, with the topic of OpenFlow receiving particular attention. In a keynote address on the first day of the conference, Urs Hoelzle, Senior Vice President at Google, described how Google used OpenFlow as part of a major overhaul of its internal networking...
read moreMulticore Packet Processing Announcements at the Conference Formerly Known as ESC
By Charlie Ashton, VP of Marketing - 6WIND The event that used to be known as Embedded Systems Conference (ESC) has now been combined with several other conferences (including the former Multicore Expo) to create DesignWest, held last week in San Jose, CA. Being an engineer at heart, I have always found ESC to be a fascinating event in terms of the breadth of products featured in the expo. Everything that an embedded system developer could possibly want is typically on display:...
read moreThe Implications of “Freemium” 4G Data for the Big Carriers, and Other Recent News
By Charlie Ashton, VP of Marketing - 6WIND FierceWireless recently published an interesting analysis of how new “freemium” 4G data services might impact major carriers worldwide, prompted by NetZero’s launch of a completely free tier of wireless data service. After buying a $49 USB modem, NetZero users can get 200 MB of Clearwire's WiMAX service per month for free. And other providers such as FreedomPop have indicated plans for even more aggressive packages. The article explores how...
read moreDiversity Rather than Consolidation in Architectures for Multicore Packet Processing
By Charlie Ashton, VP of Marketing - 6WIND In a joint press release last week (click here), 6WIND and TI announced that multicore processors based on TI’s recently-announced KeyStone II architecture will be supported within the 6WINDGate™ packet processing software, with this support becoming available in the second half of 2012. TI’s scalable KeyStone II architecture includes support for both TMS320C66x digital signal processors (DSP) generation cores and multiple cache-coherent...
read moreHybrid Multicore-Based Systems a Hot Topic at RSA Conference
By Charlie Ashton, VP of Marketing - 6WIND In last week’s blog I mentioned a few of the interesting new products featured at RSA Conference and discussed one of the common threads from conversations with attendees, which was the need for increased performance and scalability in the low-level packet processing functions that are a critical part of many of these products. From a system architecture perspective, we also heard consistent comments about the need for efficient implementations of...
read morePress Releases and Announcements at Mobile World Congress 2012
By Eric Carmes - 6WIND Founder and CEO Please find hereafter a selection of press releases and announcements at Mobile World Congress 2012. Processors: LSI announced the addition of ARM’s latest multicore technology to expand the Axxia Platform (Press Release). This is an interesting move as it seems more and processor vendors are now giving up the PowerPC architecture and choosing ARM for their future generations of products III will be the key number for Cavium Networks this year with...
read moreWide Range of New Security Products Discussed at RSA Conference
By Charlie Ashton, VP of Marketing - 6WIND I spent most of my time at RSA Conference last week working our booth, with limited time to walk the show floor and understand the wide range of new products on display. In conversations with attendees and exhibitors, however, I was struck by the wide range of new solutions being discussed at the event as well as the diversity of challenges that are being addressed in the whole category of network security. Among the interesting new products featured...
read moreIntegrated Software Solution for Intrusion Prevention Systems featured at RSA Conference
By Charlie Ashton, VP of Marketing - 6WIND Are you going to RSA Conference this week? If so, please stop by and visit with 6WIND and BroadWeb. We’ll be discussing the Integrated Software Solution for Intrusion Prevention that we announced on February 24. As mentioned in that announcement, 6WIND and BroadWeb have worked together to develop a pre-integrated software solutions for IPS systems, which will accelerating OEMs’ time-to-market while at the same time delivering industry-leading performance....
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