6WIND Integrates with Mirantis OpenStack for High Performance Data Centers and NFV Infrastructure

SANTA CLARA, Calif., April 25, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- 6WIND, a high-performance networking software company, today announced integration with Mirantis OpenStack to simplify joint customer deployments for high performance data centers and Network Function Virtualization Infrastructure (NFVI). 6WIND Virtual Accelerator™, which is hypervisor acceleration software, will integrate an OpenStack Fuel plugin for increased application throughput and efficiency in KVM environments. Both companies have worked together to release a Mirantis certified 6WIND Virtual Accelerator Fuel plugin. Developed in open source, Fuel provides an intuitive, GUI-driven experience for deployment and management of a variety of OpenStack distributions and plugins.

Hypervisor bottlenecks reduce application performance, slowing adoption of NFV and limiting the scale of data centers beyond 10G. Based on DPDK, 6WIND Virtual Accelerator provides a packet processing solution for a full-featured and high performance virtual networking infrastructure allowing:

• High performance I/Os leveraging DPDK, with multi-vendor NIC support
• High performance virtual switching (Open vSwitch and Linux bridge) and networking (Overlays, Filtering/NAT, IP Forwarding, IPsec)
• Support for existing workloads through standard Virtio drivers

6WIND Virtual Accelerator's Fuel plugin automates the deployment of DPDK-based hypervisor acceleration in Mirantis OpenStack for virtual applications to scale from 10 to 40 to 100 Gbps throughput without disrupting the KVM hypervisors, SDN Controllers or OpenStack. 6WIND Virtual Accelerator includes full synchronization with the OS networking stack and zero configuration for Linux architectures, benefiting its Fuel plugin users with flexibility to automatically scale system resources according to application bandwidth requirements.

"Many Network Operators are working with Mirantis OpenStack as they transition to NFV," said Kamesh Pemmaraju, VP of Product Marketing at Mirantis. "The partnership between Mirantis and 6WIND expands the use cases for OpenStack NFV by leveraging Fuel to automate hypervisor scaling for critical high performance virtual networking requirements."

"To realize the promise of NFV with OpenStack deployments, hypervisor acceleration is required so that performance is not sacrificed with virtualization," said Eric Carmès, CEO and Founder of 6WIND. "Combining 6WIND's Fuel plugin with Mirantis OpenStack automates hypervisor scaling, delivering bare metal performance for NFV applications without added complexity."

About 6WIND

6WIND's commercial software solves performance challenges for network vendors in telecom, enterprise and cloud infrastructure markets. The company's 6WINDGate™ packet processing software is optimized for cost-effective hardware running Linux with a choice of multicore processors to deliver a wide variety of networking and security protocols and features. Based on 6WINDGate, 6WIND Virtual Accelerator™ provides accelerated virtual networking infrastructure and 6WIND Turbo Router™ and 6WIND Turbo IPsec™ are software appliances for bare metal or virtual machine environments. By solving critical data plane performance challenges on multicore architectures, 6WIND delivers a cost-effective value proposition, enabling the transition to the future with Network Function Virtualization (NFV) and Software-Defined Networking (SDN). 6WIND is based near Paris, France with regional offices in China, Japan, South Korea and the United States. For more information, visit http://www.6wind.com.

Company Contact: 
Kelly LeBlanc
VP of Marketing for 6WIND
Phone: +1 (408) 508-6732
[email protected]  

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