Switching and Networking Software Enables Hardware-Independent NFV

The Virtual Accelerator software from 6WIND provides accelerated virtual switching and networking features for virtual infrastructures to enable network function virtualization (NFV), data center virtualization, and network appliance virtualization.
Nov. 4, 2014

The Virtual Accelerator software from 6WIND provides accelerated virtual switching and networking features for virtual infrastructures to enable network function virtualization (NFV), data center virtualization, and network appliance virtualization. The software runs within the hypervisor domain with a hardware-independent architecture to allow new and existing virtual machines (VMs) to be quickly integrated onto x86-based servers. It offers flexible virtual switching support for Open vSwitch and Linux bridge with no modifications and a complete infrastructure with VLAN, VXLAN, Virtual Routing, IP Forwarding, Filtering and NAT. Transparent orchestration for OpenStack is also supported.

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