Find out how 6WIND brings networking performance to virtualized architectures.

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SPEED MATTERS

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 Deliver the industry’s highest performance packet processing
software to shorten the path to profitability for network vendors.
 Enable Service Providers, Cloud and Content Providers and
Enterprises to capitalize on the SDN / NFV transformation by
transparently providing network performance and scalability.
The 6WIND Vision

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 Enable open platform
ecosystem to replace
dedicated hardware
with commodity servers
and virtualization.
 Close the performance
gap for Cloud and
Content Providers to
upgrade their network
architecture.
The Promise Of 6WIND
Network Architecture
Transformation
Dedicated Hardware
And Software
Platform
White Box
Ecosystem
Virtualization
Rigid Platform
Long Time To
Market
Open Platform
Inexpensive
Rapid
Services
Creation
$$$
Expensive
$

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Requirements Increase with Data Center Virtualization
Hypervisor
Virtual Machine
Application
Linux
Virtual Machine
Application
Windows
Virtual Machine
Application
Any
OS
Virtual Machine
Application
Any
OS
Hardware Independence
High Performance East-West Communications
Throughput
VM Density

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Limitations of Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV)
Virtual Machine
Application
Linux
Virtual Machine
Application
Windows
Virtual Machine
Application
Any
OS
Virtual Machine
Application
Any
OS
High Performance East-West Communications
VM Density
SR-IOVHypervisor
Hardware Independence
Throughput

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Limitations of Virtual Switching
Virtual Machine
Application
Linux
Virtual Machine
Application
Windows
Virtual Machine
Application
Any
OS
Virtual Machine
Application
Any
OS
High Performance East-West Communications
VM Density
Hypervisor
Virtual Switch
Throughput
Hardware Independence

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6WIND Meets Increased Data Center Virtualization Requirements
Virtual Machine
Application
Linux
Virtual Machine
Application
Windows
Virtual Machine
Application
Any
OS
Virtual Machine
Application
Any
OS
High Performance East-West Communications
VM Density
Hypervisor
Virtual Switch
High ThroughputHardware Independence
Accelerated Virtual Switch

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6WINDGate Packet Processing Software:
High Performance, Transparency, Scalability
 Fastest performance on the market; in both
physical and virtual environments
 Transparent, no change to OS, hypervisor and
management
 Available across major platforms
 Native support for network protocols
Multicore Processor Platform
Fast
PathNetwork Stack
Control Plane
Fast
Path
Fast
Path
Fast
Path
Fast
Path

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6WINDGate Resolves the Bottlenecks
Performance
(MillionsOfPackets
PerSecond)
...
Fast Path Cores
...
Increase OS stability
by offloading
resource intensive
mundane tasks
Standard Linux
Becomes
Unstable
Performance benefits
scale with the number
of processing cores
1 2 3 8 9 10 ...

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6WINDGate Brings Networking Performance to Virtualized
Architectures
NICs
DPDK
(Intel and multi-vendor NIC drivers)
Fast vNIC
OVS
Acceleration
Additional Features
(L3 Routing,
Firewall, NAT…)
Virtual
Switch
Fast
vNIC
PMD
Virtio
PMD
Fast
vNIC
Linux
Virtio Virtio
Fast
vNIC
Virtual
Appliance
(DPDK-
based)
Virtual
Appliance
(Linux-
based)
Virtual
Appliance
(Other
OSs) Drivers for Virtual Appliance
• 6WIND drivers for high performance
communications
• Standard drivers for existing Virtual
Appliances
• Extensible for all OSs
Accelerated Virtual Switch
• 6WIND drivers for high performance
communications
• Accelerated Open vSwitch
• Extended network services
• DPDK with multi-vendor NIC support
Virtio

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 Increase VM
density
 No change
in VMs
 No impact
on
management
Use Case Example 1: Increase VM Density
Fast
Path
Leverage 40 G ports to
reduce costs by 75% per
port
VM VM VMVM VM
VM VM VMVM VM
Standard Linux
VMVM
Virtual Switch
Accelerated
Virtual Switch
FastPath
Virtual Switch

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 6WINDGate OVS L2
switching performance
 6.8 Mpps per core
 Nearly 70 Mpps using 10
cores (20 threads)
 Performance scales
linearly with the number of
cores configured to run
the fast path.
 Performance is
independent of frame size.
6WINDGate Accelerated OVS:
Over 10x Performance over Standard Linux

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OVS
OVS
OVS
OVS
OVS
OVS
OVS
OVS
OVS
OVS
OVS
OVS
OVS
OVS
OVS
OVS
Without 6WINDGate 3X More VMs, 3X More Performance
70% Less Servers, ROI in < 3 Months
128 byte-packets
500 Mbps per VM
16 Cores / 4 VMs per core
8
Gbps
16
VMs
24
Gbps
48
VMs
6WINDGate Reduces VM TCO

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 Enable new
services
based on high
performance
East/West
traffic
 No impact on
management
Use Case Example 2:
Enable High Performance East-West Cloud Services
Leverage 40 G ports to
reduce costs by 75% per
port
VM VM
Standard Linux
VMVM
Virtual Switch
Accelerated
Virtual Switch
FastPath
Virtual Switch

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Virtual
Network
Function
Virtual
Network
Function
Virtual
Network
Function
Lowest Latency with Flexibility Between Workloads
PCI Express
Local NIC
External Switch
Physical Switching Limitations
• Hardware dependent switching
(SR-IOV, RDMA, NIC embedded switching)
• Throughput is limited by PCI Express (50 Gbps)
and faces PCI Express and DMA additional
latencies
• Available PCI slots limit the number of chained
VNFs
• At 30 Gbps a single VNF is supported per node!
Virtual Switching With 6WINDGate
• Hardware independent virtual switching (NIC
driver)
• Aggregate 500 Gbps bandwidth with low latency
• No external limit to number of chained VNFs
50
Gbps
500 Gbps
6WINDGate Accelerated OVS

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6WIND Meets Increased Data Center Virtualization Requirements
Virtual Machine
Application
Linux
Virtual Machine
Application
Windows
Virtual Machine
Application
Any
OS
Virtual Machine
Application
Any
OS
High Performance East-West Communications
VM Density
Hypervisor
Virtual Switch
High ThroughputHardware Independence
Accelerated Virtual Switch

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