6WIND Announces Availability of Mirantis Certified Fuel Plugin for OpenStack Virtual Networking Acceleration

SANTA CLARA, Calif., July 27, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- 6WIND, a high-performance networking software company, today announced general availability for its Mirantis certified 6WIND Virtual Accelerator™ Fuel Plugin. 6WIND Virtual Accelerator is software that provides accelerated virtual switching and networking features for virtual infrastructures to enable Network Function Virtualization (NFV), data center virtualization and network appliance virtualization on Commercial-off-the-Shelf (COTS) servers.

Hypervisor bottlenecks within virtual infrastructures reduce software application performance, slowing adoption of NFV and limiting the scale of data centers and network appliances beyond 10G. To solve these bottlenecks and provide cost-effective networking solutions, 6WIND Virtual Accelerator is installed on the hypervisor. It delivers the required performance and functionality to NFV Infrastructure (NFVI), and data center and network appliance virtualization by bringing acceleration to Open vSwitch (OVS) and Linux bridge, and preserving standard Linux commands (tcpdump, iptables, IPsec/XFRM, etc.) for ease of deployment and operation.

Most virtual environments comprise tens, hundreds and even thousands of servers, making manual deployments for required acceleration a challenging task. With the 6WIND Virtual Accelerator Fuel Plugin, server installation is automated and simplified to pushing the "deploy" button. 6WIND's Virtual Accelerator Fuel Plugin provides OpenStack with a zero configuration and quick deployment of the fastest DPDK-based networking solution without the limitations of SR-IOV or PCI passthrough that break virtualization.

6WIND Virtual Accelerator enhances virtual infrastructure with the following key features:

• Mature solution for high performance I/O leveraging DPDK, with multi-vendor NIC support
• Accelerated virtual switching (Open vSwitch and Linux bridge) and networking (Overlays, Filtering/NAT, IP Forwarding, IPsec) using the fastest packet processing algorithms
• Supports existing workloads through standard Virtio drivers
• Scalable software-based switching enables Service Chaining

"Network Operators are leveraging Neutron within Mirantis OpenStack to create NFV infrastructures on x86 servers," said Kamesh Pemmaraju, VP of Product Marketing at Mirantis. "With 6WIND's Mirantis certified Fuel Plugin, customers now have a software solution to increase VNF performance and density with the click of a button."

"Performance and user experience are major considerations when leveraging OpenStack to transition from legacy hardware to software applications," said Eric Carmès, CEO and Founder of 6WIND. "Mirantis certification of the 6WIND Virtual Accelerator Fuel Plugin gives the OpenStack user community confidence in a tested solution that scales server performance in a matter of minutes rather than days."

Learn how to deploy the highest performance virtual networking infrastructure using Fuel with 6WIND Virtual Accelerator: https://launchpad.net/fuel-plugin-6wind-virtual-accelerator

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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