Revolutionizing the Datacenter

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Turbo Boost NFV Performance on Power

Kelly LeBlanc, VP of Marketing

6WIND

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▪ Network Operators must evolve existing network infrastructure

The Network Architecture Transformation

■ To reduce capital expense

■ To scale flexible networking

architectures

■ To accelerate service creation

Performance Enables a Cost-Effective Transition to SDN / NFV

High PerformanceSpecialized Hardware

Bring Performance To Virtual

Networking

Deliver Required Performance to

Standard Servers

▪ Headquartered in France with a global presence in the US, China, Korea and Japan

▪ Primary business is infrastructure software for networking

▪ Combines software expertise with historical experience in telecom

▪ Products are used both by Network Operators and OEM vendors

▪ VC-backed company with Cisco as an investor

6WIND: Performance Software Experts

High Performance Software For Cost-Effective Virtual Networking

▪ Hypervisor Scaling– Virtual switch bottleneck– SR-IOV breaks virtualization– 10/40/100 Gig Ethernet

▪ Application Throughput– Standard OS Virtio driver

bottlenecks– Legacy networking software

doesn’t scale on COTS servers

Virtual Networking Performance Problems

App App App

Hypervisor

▪ 6WINDGate: Source Code For The Networking Product Builder

– Complete Layer 2-4 networking stack

– A la carte modules

▪ 6WIND Speed Series: Ready To Use Networking Software

– Virtual Accelerator– Turbo Router– Turbo IPsec

6WIND Software Enables Virtual Networking

3rd Party Application

Any OS

VM

Hypervisor

VM

ApplicationSoftware

3rd Party Application

Any OS

VM

Hypervisor

VM

Telco Use Case: 6WIND Enables the Cost- Effective Transition to NFV (vEPC Example)

VM

PCEF, ADC…

EPC → vEPC

MME

SGW

PGW

Linux

PGW Application Software

VM

Mgmt

VM

MME

VM

SGW

VM

PGW

High performance vEPC

High performance EPC in bare metal environments

NFVI:• high performance • easy to manage• rich feature set

Hypervisor VirtualAccelerator

Cloud Provider Use Case: 6WIND Virtual Accelerator Reduces Network TCO and Enables New Services

■ Increase VM

density

■ Increase individual

VM performance

■ Enable new

services

■ No impact on

management

Cost-effective cloud network infrastructure scalability

VM VM

VM

VM

VM

VM

VM

VM

VM

VM

VM

VM

VM VM

VirtualAccelerator

VirtualAccelerator

1. 6WINDGate-powered network appliance (router, IPsec gateway, firewall, load balancer…)

2. 6WIND Speed Series on Power servers

OEM and Network Operator Use Case: 6WIND Enables Cost-Effective Network and Virtual

Appliances

Rapidly transform business models

Server Platform

Bare Metal / Hypervisor

ApplicationSoftware

HardwareProcessors Servers NICs

3rd Party VNFsVNF VNF

NFVI Hypervisor

Management: OpenStack / SDN Controllers

6WIND Ecosystem