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Julien Dahan, CEOThe expectations that commercial consumers, businesses, and communication companies have begun to express about the technology further increases the stress to manufacture and supply software solutions that support it; and not every company is able to meet these new requirements efficiently or cost-effectively. However, these challenges can be overcome when an organisation reaches out to 6WIND, a global networking software company that specialises in virtual router (vRouter) solutions.
This network software provider has over 15 years of experience in the field, where it initially focused on providing high performance software to original equipment manufacturers (Tier 1 OEMs) to help them speed up their time to market and revenue to produce their networking products like UTM, 5G, uCPE, IPsec Gateway, and SD-WAN among many others.
6WIND approaches the conversation of 5G with a complete understanding of existing market challenges and works towards deploying effective strategies to overcome such challenges effectively. Due to the difficulties businesses face when attempting to integrate 5G-based technologies, 6WIND realised that it had to move from a centralised architecture to a disaggregated and distributed cloud-based one.
Julien Dahan, CEO of 6WIND, further explains that the company utilises control and user plane separation (CUPS) architecture, which is a fully distributed and cloudified model of a networking infrastructure. “It helps customers and partners to implement new 5G applications quickly and successfully,” he says.![]()
We provide the best cost to performance ratio along with unparalleled security, scalability, flexibility and reliability, which can be integrated and used in Tier 1 Service & Cloud Providers, OEMs and Enterprises
Leveraging the vRouter technology offered by 6WIND today, several well-known service providers and telco companies excel at creating robust and secure networks for various business and commercial activities. Interestingly however, 6WIND refrained from stepping into the spotlight for over 15 years. “We always worked backstage, supporting customers and partners with innovative technologies,” adds Dahan. However, they have now taken the initiative to step forward and package, based on the company’s recognised core technology, leading-edge networking software solutions to provide customers and partners with an end-to-end, high performance, and secure journey.
6WIND’s technologies are high-performing and offer strong network security designed to help Service Providers, TEPs, NEMs, and OEMs adopt the latest in 5G connectivity. The company is currently capable of managing over 100,000 secure VPN tunnels per single instance and sustain an establishment rate of 1000 tunnels per second with their IPsec solution, which is far more than the average performance that other networking solution providers are capable of delivering today.
The Company’s vRouter solutions bring to the forefront performance, security, along with flexibility, and virtualization capabilities enabling software to replace hardware routing devices without compromising on features or performance. This innovative technology empowers users to dynamically configure the device or network according to various project needs. For processes involving 5G, IoT, and SD-WAN related technologies especially, 6WIND helps execute them seamlessly with the most comprehensive security measures in place, while performance is constantly stable. The Virtual Accelerator software strengthens virtualization infrastructures by addressing the performance bottlenecks and enhancing the networking capabilities of hypervisors while preserving the flexibility and benefits of virtualization. “We provide performance, security, and reliability through our solutions, which can be integrated and used in big network environments with ease,” states Dahan.
With such advanced solutions for networking, the future of connectivity is set to witness a revolutionary change, and 6WIND is going to be at the centre of it all. The company is well vested in the networking markets globally, especially Europe, Americas, and Asia Pacific regions as 5G has created a large impact in these growing economies. “We are networking technology experts and always deliver on our promises; often exceeding expectations. 6WIND will continue to support its clients in addressing all their networking and communication needs more effectively and innovatively,” concludes Dahan.
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Company
6WIND
Management
Julien Dahan, CEO
Description
6WIND is a networking software company and the worldwide leader in vRouter solutions. The company’s 6WINDGate - the source code foundation - illuminates the company’s networking competencies for OEM operations where the software, designed for tier 1 networks, empowers clients to build new products and solutions for 5G, SD-WAN, and IoT markets. Based on this technology, 6WIND developed its vRouters and Virtual Accelerator solutions. The Company’s vRouter solutions bring to the forefront performance, security, along with flexibility, and virtualization capabilities enabling software to replace hardware routing devices without compromising on features or performance. The Virtual Accelerator software strengthens virtualization infrastructures by addressing the performance bottlenecks and enhancing the networking capabilities of hypervisors while preserving the flexibility and benefits of virtualization. 6WIND has a global presence with Headquarters based in Paris, France and in Santa Clara, California
The 6WIND vSecGW, powered by 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors and Intel Ethernet 800 Series Network Adapters, proved IPsec performance scalability to 400Gbps with an internet MIX traffic profile (iMIX350B). Furthermore, it demonstrated its high efficiency by delivering more than 25Gbps IPsec performance with a single CPU core. For more details, please refer to the white paper.
Thanks to the 6WIND vSecGW, service providers and more specifically network operators can replace legacy physical security gateways with a virtual one running on COTS servers in hybrid environments and delivering higher efficiency, superior deployment flexibility, rich feature set, carrier-grade performance, and high availability at a fraction of the cost.
The 6WIND vSecGW has been designed to support a wide range of network applications, including fixed wireline, wireless or converged networks. Some of the network use cases it covers include Mobile Security Gateway, Remote Access IPsec VPN, Secure Multi-Cloud Access and Enterprise site-to-site and network-to-network security.
The 6WIND vSecGW runs as a virtual network function (VNF) with industry-leading virtualization hypervisors, as a container network function (CNF) in a Kubernetes/docker environments, or as a platform network function (PNF) in a bare metal deployment.
As a Mobile Security Gateway, the 6WIND vSecGW can be deployed together with the 6WIND virtual Cell Site Router (vCSR) to provide Mobile Operators with a complete virtualized or containerized end-to-end routing and security service from the cell site to the core network.
“6WIND vSecGW solution once again demonstrates its unparalleled leadership in performance, scalability, and efficiency. By demonstrating 400Gbps iMIX IPsec on a single instance we have proven how we help CSPs and MNOs stay competitive by reducing their hardware usage by 3:1 ratio. Our VSR solutions are not only cost-effective but deliver sustainability and efficiency by reducing energy consumption by more than 50%. This coupled with high performance, agility, openness, and unparallel security delivers a solution that major CSPs and MNOs rely on globally.” said Julien Dahan, CEO, 6WIND.