WanStaX

Our WanStaX Application Framework is a market ready, richly featured, extensible control plane software solution specifically designed for the MicroChip WinPath network processor family.

Through the WanStaX Application Framework ‘out of the box’ feature set, customers can have the key aspects of a software solution built and demonstrable literally in days. Our WanStaX Application Framework allows customers to focus on the ‘business logic’ of their solutions rather than the intricacies of configuring the WinPath.

Features

• A uniform and simplified application front end to the WinPath WDDI driver layer
• Fast adaption to new hardware designs via its unique Hardware Abstraction layer
• Accelerated development of WDDI applications using our off-the-shelf WDDI building blocks, including VRF Routing, VLAN and Non-VLAN Aware Bridging, IEEE 802.1Q Provider Bridging (Stacked VLAN’s), QoS, L2 and L3 VPN with MPLS
• Utilisation of the latest WinPath Hardware Accelerators including PCE and IWGP
• Multi-threaded access to WDDI via the WAF API layer
• Extensive abstracted interface to the target OS with Linux supported

Compatibility

• MicroChip's WinPath network processor family running the latest WDDI API
• Our WanStaX Carrier Ethernet control stacks can optionally be delivered pre-integrated to the WanStaX Application Framework:
  • Link Aggregation 802.3ad
  • Connectivity Fault Management 802.3ag
  • Link OAM 802.3ah
  • Performance Management Y.1731

Deliverables

• Our WanStaX Application Framework is provided in source code modules
• CLI and APLuser documentation
• Simulation package allowing accelerated x86-based host development and testing
• We offer support and maintenance for all software provided
• We also provide Professional Services from a pool of expert staff that has provided specialist WinPath capability to a large number of customers worldwide

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Software Defined Networking (SDN) is an emerging network architecture where network control is decoupled from forwarding and is directly programmable. The flexibility and high throughput of MicroChip’s WinPath Network processor portfolio makes it an ideal technology choice for network elements that customers need to be ‘SDN Ready’.

Our WanStaX software portfolio includes the necessary features to support OpenFlow-based forwarding, in parallel with ‘traditional’ network architectures which makes it easy for enterprises and carriers to progressively introduce OpenFlow based SDN technologies when WanStaX is deployed.

Features

• OpenFlow-Hybrid switch
• All OpenFlow 1.3.4 mandatory features supported
• Integration with EOAM, CFM and LAG
• VLAN and PBB support
• Quality of Service and PCP/DSCP remark support
• Advanced metering support
• NETCONF OFConfig-1.2 supported
• Additional Support for fixed TTP models

Compatibility

• MicroChip’s WinPath network processor family including all variants of WinPath3 and WinPath4 running the latest WDDI API

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Our WanStaX Carrier Ethernet is a portfolio of market ready, richly featured, Carrier Ethernet control stack solutions that incorporate Link Aggregation, Link OAM, CFM and Performance Monitoring.

WanStaX Carrier Ethernet components are specifically designed for the MicroChip WinPath network processor family.

Features

• An OS abstracted, standards compliant implementation of LAG (802.3ad), Link OAM (802.3ah), CFM (802.3ag) and PM (Y.1731) Ethernet protocols
• Example reference applications to accelerate integration of, customer solutions and third party products
• Working demonstrations ready to deploy on MicroChip’s WDS hardware reference platforms
• Each control stack is provided with a comprehensive documentation set and explanation of the reference applications, including details of how to port and build the stack for a new compiler or OS as well as step-by-step guides for integrating with a target solution

Compatibility

• MicroChip’s WinPath network processor family running the latest WDDI API
• WanStaX Carrier Ethernet components are compatible with our WanStaX Application Framework - an extensible control plane software solution specifically designed for the MicroChip WinPath network processor family

Licensing & Deliverables

• We offer a flexible, royalty free commercial model; offered on a ‘per product line’ basis as a single license fee
• Simulation package allowing accelerated x86-based host development and testing. We offer support and maintenance for all software provided
• We also provide Expert Services from a pool of experienced engineers that have provided specialist WinPath knowledge and capability to a large number of customers worldwide

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Our WanStaX Network Interface Device (NID) packages provide all the software that equipment manufacturers need to support the functional requirements for MEF transport and service NIDs.

Our portfolio has been designed to run on all MicroChip WDS3 and WDS4 reference hardware platforms utilising the flexibility and power of the WinPath.

Using interfaceFRR (a fully featured, high performance, free software IP routing suite) it is possible to extend the functionality of the solution to support standard dynamic routing protocols such as OSPF and BGP.

Features

• Full Service and Transport NID support
• Type 1.2, 2.1 and 2.2 NID solutions are available.
• Full OAM support (with hardware acceleration) , 802.3ah, 802.1ag, MEF 13, MEF 20, Y.1731 and 802.1AX.
• Full VLAN 802.1Q support.
• Support for E-Line/E-Tree and E-LAN as specified in MEF 6.1.
• Comprehensive QoS support.
• Traffic policing and shaping MEF 10.3.
• MPLS-TP G.8131 G.8132.
• Sync E and IEEE 1588v2 support.
• OpenFlow enabled.
• OSFP, RIP, BGP, ISIS, LDP

Applications

• Ethernet demarcation NID MEF 12.1.1
• PWE3backhaul
• SmartGrid

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