RMI Corp. and 6WIND, one of the leading providers of embedded software solutions that simplify networking and application development upon multi-core processor based equipment, are broadening their existing partnership aimed at enhancing the performance, scalability and ease-of-integration of advanced carrier-class solutions for their mutual customers.
As part of this collaboration, 6WIND is expanding availability of its 6WINDGate embedded software solutions that will be newly optimized for RMI’s XLR and XLS multi-core, multi-threaded processors. The expansion will enhance 6WINDGate’s embedded networking design and application integration simplifications and performance advantages of RMI’s multi-core processors. 6WINDGate is also being made available for customer evaluation across these RMI processor families.
6WINDGate, which is 6WIND’s flagship embedded networking software solution, provides ready-to-use layer 2-4 networking and protocols feature sets allowing engineers to start working on application development and integration much faster. 6WINDGate has been specifically designed to benefit from multi-core performance and to hide the complexity of multi-core extensions for applications. An XML-based manageability interface eases integration of networking and value-added features and applications and also maximizes customer software development reuse. This makes integration of applications on RMI processors a far more seamless process that also allows designers to maximize networking and application performance.
New optimizations will be provided for RMI’s XLR and XLS processor families to better integrate 6WINDGate with RMI’s OS. RMI’s XLR processor family is a very high throughput, feature-rich processor solution for a wide variety of infrastructure equipment and enterprise systems. The XLR processors enable applications such as integrated security, web services, virtualized storage, load balancing and server offload, as well as content and application aware, multi-service routing and switching. The XLS processor family offers mid- to entry-level versions of the XLR architecture. The XLS processor leverages the XLR’s performance, scalability and technology innovations and incorporates additional advanced interfaces. XLS processors address applications that demand a smaller form factor and lower power consumption. The XLR and XLS families are pin-compatible within each series and are software compatible across both processor families.
All 6WINDGate profiles – ADS, EDS and SDS – are being used in the partnership to provide a holistic solution across any number of cores. 6WINDGate provides a complete networking solution including dual-IP networking protocols, comprehensive L2/L4 networking functions, unicast and multicast forwarding, virtual routing, tunneling, IPsec via built-in crypto processors, stateful firewall, QoS, NAT, TCP offloading, with all these functions being IPv6 ready. 6WINDGate can run as a pure Linux solution (ADS and EDS) or in conjunction with the MCEE (SDS) to provide the highest level of performance and a seamless integration into customers’ existing Control Plane. As a result, embedded designers and equipment manufacturers can use the combined solution as a software environment for all RMI multi-core solutions. The partnership enables an end-to-end simplified design process for all phases.
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