Virtual host acceleration

1. Virtual Accelerator
Hypervisor Acceleration for Virtual
Machine Performance
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6WIND Virtual Accelerator® is a host network
acceleration software that provides a solution to
power the virtual networking infrastructure with the
required features, performance and scalability.
Used in Network Function Virtualization
infrastructure (NFVi), Data Center Virtualization or
Network Appliance Virtualization use cases.
Virtual Accelerator
6WIND Virtual Accelerator® software provides a solution to power the hypervisor with the
required features for virtual networking infrastructure used in Network Function Virtualization
(NFV), Data Center Virtualization or Network Appliance Virtualization use cases.
Rich features including layer 2 and 3

2. Optimize resource consumption at NFVi
Boost virtualization capabilities
High Performance and scalability
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Features
Line rate hypervisor networking
Accelerated virtual switching (Open vSwitch and Linux bridge)
Accelerated networking (Overlays for multi-tenancy, L3 routing, VRF, ACLs, NAT,
IPsec, QoS, TCP offloads and more)
Ease of deployment and operation
Increase VM density and performance on COTS servers
Supports standard network management tools (OpenStack and SDN controllers)
Supports existing and unmodified workloads through standard Virtio drivers
Scalable software-based switching enables Service Chaining
High performance with no SR-IOV or PCI Passthrough
Popular use cases include uCPE and Software-defined
Networking (SDN) virtual routing and switching solutions. It
is deployed in the KVM hypervisor to offer a high
performance alternative to SR-IOV and PCI passthrough that
break virtualization.
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3. Datasheet
Virtual Accelerator
Powering hypervisor acceleration for virtual networking infrastructure for
OEMs & ISPs
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Use Case
Nuage Networks aVRS Success
6WIND vRouter: The SDN Virtual Border Router for Service Providers and
Enterprises
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Blog
Virtual Accelerator™ vs OVS-DPDK

4. Virtualization is everywhere and virtual switches are the cornerstone to connect
Virtual Machines (VMs) to virtual or physical networks.
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vRouter Applications
Virtual Border Router
6WIND Virtual Border Router® is a high performance, ready-to-use software router, belonging
to 6WIND’s vRouter product family.
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Virtual CG-NAT
6WIND Virtual CG-NAT (Carrier Grade NAT) is a vRouter product that provides network
address translation capabilities at high scale to enable service providers handle internet IPv4
address exhaustion.
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Virtual Security Gateway
6WIND Virtual Security Gateway is a vRouter product that provides security capabilities along
with performance and scalability to address end-to-end security challenges for service providers
and enterprises.
Source - https://www.6wind.com/virtual-host-acceleration/