Company:6WIND

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Short description: French networking software company
6WIND
IndustrySoftware
FoundedSeptember 1, 2000 (2000-09-01)
Headquarters
Paris
,
France
Number of locations
United States, United Kingdom, Singapore
Key people
Julien Dahan, CEO
ProductsVirtual Service Routers, 6WINDCloud, Virtual Host Accelerator, 6WINDGate

6WIND is a virtual networking software company delivering disaggregated and cloud-native solutions to CSPs and enterprises globally. The company is privately held and headquartered in the West Paris area, in Montigny-le-Bretonneux. 6WIND has a global presence with offices in the US and APAC. The company provides virtualized networking software which is deployed in bare-metal or in virtual machines on COTS servers in public & private clouds. Their solutions are disaggregated and containerized based on the cloud-native architecture.

History

6WIND was founded in 2000 as a spin-out from Thales Group (previously Thomson-CSF), a provider of electronics for aerospace, defense and security. A 3.75 million euro investment from Sofinnova Partners and others was announced in 2004, and 5 million euros in 2004.[1] Partners include Red Hat, VMware and Wind River Systems.[2] Equipment vendors that provide boards and systems utilizing 6WIND software include Emerson Network Power.[3]

Other partners include: Kalray for data centers,[4] Hewlett-Packard for acceleration technology on ProLiant servers,[5] Dell,[6] Canonical,[7] Alcatel-Lucent for Red Hat Enterprise Linux.[8]

In April 2013, the company announced it would support an open-source software project for the Data Plane Development Kit from Intel.[9] In early 2012, 6WIND introduced a mobile edition and cloud edition of 6WINDGate, for 4G mobile phone companies and cloud computing.[10]

The company announced its Speed Series of packaged software in late 2014, marketed for network function virtualization (NFV). A product called 6WIND Virtual Accelerator allowing hypervisor scaling. A venture capital investment from Cisco Systems was announced in 2014.[11][12] In 2015, the company announced its Turbo Router Turbo IPsec software.[13]

In 2016 Radware said that their Aleon NG VA product used a product of the company along with OpenStack.[14][15] That same year Mirantis announced integration with 6WIND for data centers and NFV.

The company promotes its performance by publishing performance tests.[16]

In 2015 Light Reading mentioned that 6WIND software allowed Italian service provider NGI to build a router marketed for software-defined networking.[17]

In August 2017, 6WIND announced a "replacement program" for Brocade vRouter users.[18] 6WIND vRouter is based on DPDK traffic runs in the fast path outside of the Linux kernel, avoiding potential Linux kernel processing bottlenecks.[19] This announcement has been followed by two articles from The Register and SDxCentral comparing 6WIND with dedicated equipment and explaining how the vRouter solution helped a Spanish ISP to become SDN ready.[20][21]

In November 2022, 6WIND announced an strategic partnership with IP-Tribe in APAC.[22]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Sofinnova Partners announces a €5 million second investment round to support the development of 6WIND". Press release (Sofinnova Partners). February 9, 2004. http://www.sofinnova.fr/en/sofinnova-partners-announces-a-e5-million-second-investment-round-to-support-the-development-of-6wind/. 
  2. ↑ Wind River, 6Wind partner on multicore CPUs, EE Times, January 14, 2008.
  3. ↑ Anne-Francoise Pele. "6Wind joins Emerson's partnership program", November 18, 2008.
  4. ↑ "Kalray and 6WIND Announce New Partnership". 2016-04-13. http://www.finanznachrichten.de/nachrichten-2016-04/37048640-kalray-and-6wind-announce-new-partnership-008.htm. 
  5. ↑ "6WIND Turbo IPsec Performance Certified on Hewlett Packard Enterprise ProLiant Servers for Cost-effective Security Gateway Solutions for All Size Networks". Press release. February 2, 2016. http://www.broadcastnewsroom.com/article/6WIND-Turbo-IPsec-Performance-Certified-on-Hewlett-Packard-Enterprise-ProLiant-Servers-for-Cost-effective-Security-Gateway-Solutions-for-All-Size-Networks-4273845. 
  6. ↑ "Dell introduces new NFV platform, starter kits - FierceWireless". http://www.fiercewireless.com/tech/story/dell-introduces-new-nfv-platform-starter-kits/2014-10-14. 
  7. ↑ Nestor, Marius (2015-12-07). "Canonical Partners with 6WIND to Accelerate the Growth of Ubuntu Cloud Networking". http://news.softpedia.com/news/canonical-partners-with-6wind-to-accelerate-the-growth-of-ubuntu-cloud-networking-497042.shtml. 
  8. ↑ "Alcatel-Lucent signs agreements with Red Hat, Advantech and 6WIND to accelerate delivery of virtualized radio access networks". 15 December 2015. https://www.alcatel-lucent.com/press/2015/alcatel-lucent-signs-agreements-red-hat-advantech-and-6wind-accelerate-delivery-virtualized-radio. 
  9. ↑ "6WIND Announces dpdk.org Open-Source Project to Accelerate Development of Intel Architecture-Based Networking Products". Press release. April 9, 2013. http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/4/prweb10612220.htm. 
  10. ↑ Janine E. Mooney (February 13, 2012). "6WIND Now #1 Supplier of Networking Software for LTE Infrastructure, Extends Product Line to Cloud Infrastructure Solutions". Press release. https://www.wirelessdesignmag.com/news/2012/02/6wind-now-1-supplier-networking-software-lte-infrastructure-extends-product-line-cloud. 
  11. ↑ Martyn Warwick (2014). "SDN/NFV Wars: Cisco tries to put the breeze up HP by blowing money into French company 6Wind". Telecom TV. http://www.telecomtv.com/articles/network-innovation/sdn-nfv-wars-cisco-tries-to-put-the-breeze-up-hp-by-blowing-money-into-french-company-6wind-12617/. 
  12. ↑ Richard Chirgwin (July 7, 2015). "Cisco slings simoleons at software-defined networking biz 6Wind". The Channel. https://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/07/07/cisco_slings_samoleans_at_6wind/. 
  13. ↑ "6WIND Offering Accelerated L3 Virtual Appliances". Sponsored blog posting. Packet Pushers. October 21, 2015. http://packetpushers.net/6wind-offering-accelerated-l3-virtual-appliances/. 
  14. ↑ "Radware, 6Wind Team on Virtual Acceleration". Press release. April 19, 2016. http://www.lightreading.com/nfv/nfv-tests-and-trials/radware-6wind-team-on-virtual-acceleration/d/d-id/722781. 
  15. ↑ "Radware's Virtual Alteon ADC Achieves Industry Highest Performance in OpenStack Environment". Press release. April 26, 2016. https://globenewswire.com/news-release/2016/04/26/832716/0/en/Radware-s-Virtual-Alteon-ADC-Achieves-Industry-Highest-Performance-in-OpenStack-Environment.html. 
  16. ↑ "Blazing performance with 6WIND Speed Series Turbo Appliances". SDx Central web site. September 24, 2015. https://www.sdxcentral.com/articles/featured/6wind-speed-series-performance-report/2015/09/. 
  17. ↑ Mitch Wagner (February 17, 2015). "Italian SP Deploys Homemade SDN Appliance". Light Reading. http://www.lightreading.com/carrier-sdn/sdn-technology/italian-sp-deploys-homemade-sdn-appliance/d/d-id/713802. 
  18. ↑ "6WIND Lures Brocade vRouter Customers Left Out in Cold". 2017-08-24. https://www.sdxcentral.com/articles/news/6wind-lures-brocade-vrouter-customers-left-out-in-cold/2017/08/. 
  19. ↑ "6WIND Offers Replacement Program for Dead Brocade vRouter - Packet Pushers". 2017-08-25. https://packetpushers.net/6wind-replaces-brocade-vrouter/. 
  20. ↑ Chirgwin, Richard (1 July 2018). "Be The Packet. Take each hop it makes. Your network will repay you". https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/07/01/network_roundup_july_1_2018/. 
  21. ↑ "Spanish ISP Replaces Cisco Hardware Routers With 6WIND vRouter". https://www.sdxcentral.com/articles/news/spanish-isp-replaces-cisco-hardware-routers-with-6wind-vrouter/2018/06/. 
  22. ↑ "6WIND and IP-Tribe announce Strategic Partnership in APAC" (in en-US). 2022-11-29. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/6wind-ip-tribe-announce-strategic-090000378.html. 



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