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The combination of 6WINDGate software and TILEPro64 processor maximizes performance-per-Watt for cloud networking and mobile infrastructureequipment

6WIND has announced the availability of its 6WINDGate software with optimized support for the TILEPro64 processor family from TileraCorporation, the industry leader in highly scalable general purpose “manycore processors”. Already deployed by a wide range of OEMs worldwide, 6WINDGate enables the development of high-performance, energy-efficient TILEPro64-based equipment for cloud networking and mobile infrastructure applications.

As data and services migrate to the cloud and mobile applications require more bandwidth, designers of equipment for next-generation network infrastructure are required to achieve increased network performance despite demanding power consumption constraints. To meet these challenges,networking equipment must provide best-in-class energy efficiency (performance per Watt) using a hardware and software architecture that can scale to support growth in user traffic. At the same time, while introducing products based on new processor platforms, OEMs need to leverage their investments in proven, proprietary application software.

To address these requirements, the 6WINDGate packet processing software fully exploits the energy-efficient, “manycore” TILEPro64 processor architecture to deliver IP Forwarding performance of 580,000 packets per second, per Tile on a processor running at 800MHz (64-byte packets). Thisper-Tile IP Forwarding performance scales linearly with the number of tiles running 6WINDGate until the platform achieves full wire speed. Remaining tiles can be used to run additional value-added networking features or applications.

By maintaining full compatibility with standard Operating System APIs, 6WINDGate enables Tilera customers to quickly develop new applications and/or migrate existing software from another platform, thereby accelerating their time-to-market while reducing their schedule risk.

“We’re pleased to deliver support for the Tilera TILEPro64 processor,” said Eric Carmès, CEO of 6WIND. “We have worked closely with Tilera to ensure that 6WINDGate fully utilizes the unique features of their manycore architecture. OEMs developing solutions such as virtualized appliances for cloud infrastructure will leverage the performance, portability and scalability of 6WINDGate to maximize the performance-per-Watt ofTILEPro64-platforms while accelerating their time-to-market.”

Already deployed by tier-one networking and telecom OEMs worldwide, 6WINDGate is the gold standard for commercial packet processing software. Providing a comprehensive, pre-integrated suite of networking protocols fully optimized for multicore platforms, 6WINDGate eliminates the need for OEMs to invest their engineering resources into combining discrete protocols from multiple sources and/or designing custom optimizations. This allows 6WIND’s customers to eliminate up to twelve months of development time, reaping the rewards of being early to market with cost-optimized products that offer compelling performance.

"Tilera’s processors offer the best performance per watt of any processor on the market today. 6WIND’s software enables our OEM customers to extract amazing packet processing performance from our processors while retaining full compatibility with standard APIs," said Omid Tahernia, CEO of Tilera. "We're pleased to see 6WIND launch their support for the TILEPro64 processor. We look forward to an ongoing partnership in delivering the most power- efficient networking solutions."

6WINDGate support for the TILEPro64 processor family is available now. For more information please visit http://www.6wind.com/.