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6WIND Software Provides 10x the Performance with Lower Power Consumption for Systems Based on Freescale QorIQ P4080
6WIND, the industry standard for commercial packet processing solutions, today announced a new version of its 6WINDGate™ software, with optimized support for the QorIQ™ P4080 processor from Freescale Semiconductor. The 6WINDGate software offers Freescale customers a market-proven migration path to the performance advantages associated with multicore processing, while also providing a solution for achieving low power consumption targets.
“6In today's ultra-competitive marketplace, the complexity associated with adopting new multicore architectures can often impede the realization of promised benefits, such as higher application performance, reduced power consumption and faster time-to-market. The availability of 6WINDGate software on the QorIQ P4080 processor will allow joint customers in the networking and telecommunications industries to more easily migrate their applications from single-core to multicore environments.
“The 6WINDGate software architecture removes the complexity of integrating high-performance packet processing into multicore networking equipment,” said Eric Carmes, CEO of 6WIND. “It includes a comprehensive set of Layer 2 through Layer 4 networking protocols, reducing customer development time by as much as 70 percent.”
6WINDGate also maximizes software reuse, since legacy applications previously running on single-core architectures can quickly and with minimal or no modifications migrate to the Freescale QorIQ P4080 processor, while achieving maximum performance. 6WIND’s environment incorporates an XML-based management interface that eases the integration of 6WINDGate with third-party networking applications and with customers’ own value-added software. These features combine to provide customers with a proven solution for jump-starting the migration of their applications, expediting time-to-market and reducing development costs.