6WIND, a high-performance software company,
today announced two new software appliances in its Speed Series family:
Turbo Router and Turbo IPsec. Based on 6WINDGate packet processing
software, which is deployed in Tier 1 networks worldwide, Turbo Router
and Turbo IPsec can be installed quickly onto standard x86 servers
within bare metal and virtual machine (VM) environments.
The
new Speed Series Turbo Appliances are designed to benefit Service
Providers, Cloud and Content Providers and Enterprises with the best
price/performance ratios when transitioning from hardware to software
based appliances for flexibility, efficiency and cost savings. Compared
to competing software routers, 6WIND's Turbo Router can deliver up to
twice the performance at 1/4 the price. Compared to hardware-based IPsec
Gateways, 6WIND's Turbo IPsec can save 80% of the cost per gigabit of
IPsec throughput.
Turbo Router: 200+ Gbps Throughput with 45% Capacity Available
6WIND's
Speed Series Turbo Router combines dynamic routing and stateful
firewall features in a high performance software appliance:
- Data Plane: VLAN, LAG, Routing (including VRF), IPinIP, GRE, Firewall & NAT, and more
- Control Plane: VRRP, Routing (RIP, OSPF, BGP), and more
- Services: DHCP, SNMP, and more
- IPv4 and IPv6
- Performance: Over 200 Gbps IP Forwarding throughput on a Quad Intel®
Xeon® Processor E7-4800 v2 Series system @ 2.8 GHz leveraging only 22
cores out of 40
Turbo IPsec: 100+ Gbps Throughput with 45% Capacity Available
6WIND's
Speed Series Turbo IPsec, the industry's first software-based IPsec
Gateway appliance, combines IPsec, dynamic routing and stateful firewall
features:
- Data Plane: IPsec, VLAN, LAG, Routing (including VRF), IPinIP, GRE, Firewall & NAT, and more
- Control Plane: IKE, VRRP, Routing (RIP, OSPF, BGP), and more
- Services: DHCP, SNMP, and more
- IPv4 and IPv6
- Performance: Over 100 Gbps IPsec throughput while performing both
crypto and authentication on all packets without external crypto
technology on a Quad Intel® Xeon® Processor E7-4800 v2 Series system @
2.8 GHz leveraging only 22 cores
6WIND Speed Series Turbo Appliances include:
- Linear performance scalability with the number of cores deployed
- Full-featured data plane networking with fast path protocols
- Highly scalable control plane
- CLI, XML or Linux-based management (iproute2, iptables)
- High performance input/output (I/O) leveraging DPDK (Data Plane Development Kit) with multi-vendor NIC support
- Virtio vNIC support to eliminate standard virtual switch bottlenecks when combined with 6WIND Virtual Accelerator
6WIND Speed Series: Enabling NFV and Virtual Networking
Within
the 6WIND Speed Series family, the new Turbo Appliances can be easily
integrated with 6WIND's Virtual Accelerator for accelerated virtual
switching and networking infrastructure, and third party virtual
functions, in the transition to Network Function Virtualization (NFV)
and virtual networking environments. For example, by combining 6WIND's
Virtual Accelerator and Turbo Router, customers can achieve over 5x
performance of a standard Linux router VM running on top of Open
vSwitch, while saving 75% of the system's processor resources to run
additional VMs.
"Our
new Speed Series Turbo Router and Turbo IPsec appliances leverage our
industry-proven 6WINDGate technology to provide the packet processing
performance of hardware networking solutions in software," said Eric
Carmès, CEO and Founder of 6WIND. "Our Turbo Appliances deliver an
impressive price/performance advantage over competing software
appliances and traditional purpose-built hardware appliances."
6WIND Turbo Appliances are available for 1, 2 and 4 socket Intel x86-based servers.