6WIND Announces dpdk.org Open-Source Project

6WIND 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) architecture-based Read More »

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 »

6WIND Provides Valuable Enhancements for the Intel® DPDK

6WIND 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, classification, Read More »

How is SDN Changing the Networking Industry?

By Eric Carmes - 6WIND Founder and CEO Since the inception of the Internet, the networking industry has relied on the same business model. Today’s networking equipment and appliances are still characterized by proprietary, vertically integrated software running on dedicated hardware. Equipment provided by major vendors includes custom silicon for efficient packet processing, a custom Operating System and custom applications (from switches to L4-L7 software). Increasingly, however, the new generation Read More »

Enabling Differentiated Classes of Services at High Performance

By David Le Goff - 6WIND Product Marketing Manager Quality of Service (QoS) is a basic foundation for enabling the “network monetization” that represents such a critical challenge for both service providers and carriers. Within networking equipment, the first, critical step in the QoS process involves the identification of multiple traffic classes, typically known as traffic classification (and a future post will explain how 6WIND’s software accelerates this function). Once the identification Read More »