Flexible,
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cloudSwXtch is very easy to deploy from the Azure Marketplace and AWS Marketplace. After setting a few simple parameters, a user creates the virtual network which deploys a cloudSwXtch into their Azure or AWS tenant. Any virtual machines that wish to connect to the cloudSwXtch must retrieve an xNIC from the cloudSwXtch by running a simple bash script.

cloudSwXtch is available for testing with a full-featured 30-day free trial.

The cloudSwXtch architecture includes a lightweight VM component that allows external networks to create AWS multicast or Azure multicast and move traffic between Azure data centers.

cloudSwXtch supports moving multicast traffic between Azure vNets, within or between Availability Zones.

cloudSwXtch is fully compliant with IGMP Version 2, and partially compliant with IGMP Version 3. cloudSwXtch currently supports many of the features of IGMP Version 3 that are in common use, and will fully support IGMP version 3 in a future release.

xNICs are available for virtual machines that run RHEL 7 or later, CentOS 7 or later, Ubuntu 18.04 or later, Windows Server 2016 and 2019. These operating systems must run on an x86_64 CPU.

The first release of cloudSwXtch allows users to transmit multicast traffic on or into the cloud. The multicast network behaves as if it were implemented on physical hardware. It uses standard IGMP-compliant methods to allow multicast producers and consumers to leave or join multicast groups.

cloudSwXtch is a virtual overlay network that runs in your AWS or Azure tenant. It creates a standards-compliant network by deploying virtual network switches and virtual Network Interface Controllers (xNICs) that allow software workloads running on virtual machines to distribute their information as if they were running on a physical network. Many features not available on cloud networks, like multicast, PTP, packet pacing, custom packet filtering, and others may be implemented as features on this virtual network.