6WIND and eComNet Announce Strategic Partnership

Johannesburg, South Africa, May 25, 2023 – Founded in South Africa in 2004, eComNet is a Pan-African distributor that helps broadband, fibre, and network infrastructure organisations utilise their infrastructure to their full advantage. eComNet’s unique, highly specialised product offering includes a 360-degree bouquet of comprehensive services that provide clients with a one-stop-shop, including design, installation and maintenance. In addition, we collaborate closely with clients to develop a proof of concept, ensuring seamless product integration.

"I am very excited to be working with 6WIND, to offer our customers a mature and virtual platform to support their next-gen networks,” says Deon Wentzel, eComNet’s Managing Director. “particularly, about adding 6WIND’s virtual CG-NAT solution to our portfolio, to address the growing concern around IPv4 exhaustion with our service provider customers.”

6WIND, a leading green-tech networking software company specialising in high-performance virtualised and cloud-native network solutions, today announced their partnership with eComNet to help expand their reach in the Sub-Saharan Africa market.”

6WIND delivers high-performance and secure Virtual Service Router (VSR) Software Solutions, which are deployed bare-metal, virtualised, or containerised on COTS servers in private and public clouds.

The 6WIND VSR Software Solutions help reduce the carbon footprint by lowering energy consumption by more than 50%. This is done cost-effectively without sacrificing performance by drastically reducing the hardware required by the networks to deliver their services.

The 6WIND VSR Product Suite; vPE, vCSR, vSecGW, vCGNAT, vBR & vCPE, have proven their energy-saving capabilities and their impact on reducing the carbon footprint. These solutions deliver high performance, security, scalability, flexibility, openness and agility, to global CSPs, MNOs, Cloud Providers, Data Centres and Enterprises. These are deployed PNF, VNF, CNF, or cloud-native on COTS servers in private and public clouds.

“We are delighted to partner eComNet. Their wealth of knowledge, technical expertise and excellent customer relationships in the African Service Provider market make them an ideal partner for 6WIND. Together, with 6WIND’s VSR products, we bring the power of network virtualisation to help customers accelerate their virtualisation goals”, commented Julien Dahan, CEO at 6WIND.

About 6WIND

6WIND is a leading Green Tech company delivering Virtualised & Cloud-Native networking software. It is the worldwide leader in Virtual Service Router software solutions.

6WIND software is deployed globally by CSPs, MNOs, Cloud Providers, Data Centres & Enterprises, allowing them to replace expensive hardware & build highly optimised and sustainable 5G networks with virtualised networking software solutions for routing and security use cases.

6WIND has a global presence with Headquarters based in Paris – France, Santa Clara, CA – USA and Singapore.

Visit www.ecomnet.co and www.6wind.com for more information.

Company Contact:

Deon Wentzel, MD for eComNet cc

Phone+27 83 376 5222 – deon@ecomnet.co