6WIND is excited to announce that Mavenir, a leading provider of communications platforms, has extended its licensing agreement for 6WINDGate, and related products and services for next generation network applications.

Mavenir and 6WIND have an existing long term relationship to deliver innovative solutions for 4G, 5G and Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) services including Media Resource Function (MRF), Evolved Packet Core (EPC), Virtual Radio Access Network (vRAN) and Session Border Controller (SBC) products.

Mavenir extended its 6WIND license to include the 6WINDGate™ TCP stack. In addition to 6WIND’s software, Mavenir benefits from 6WIND’s Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK) expertise, network software design skills and licensed support. The TCP Stack addition complements a variety of DPDK-based Layer 2 through Layer 4 6WINDGate stacks that are widely built into the Mavenir product suite.

In a competitive market, 6WIND products and services demonstrate value to end users. “6WIND’s high performance networking stacks enable us to meet our customers’ capacity and performance needs regardless of whether they deploy in bare metal or virtualized environments,” said Pardeep Kohli, President and CEO, at Mavenir. “6WIND is one of the keys to our success as a SDN/NFV solution provider.”

“We are proud to partner with Mavenir and provide a key enabling technology for their product growth and success,” said Eric Carmès, CEO and Founder of 6WIND. “Our high-performance software and expertise as the founders of DPDK.org allow market innovators like Mavenir to deliver networking products that meet all size network requirements and market evolutions, at a rapid pace.”

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