Why Wind River?
Wind River is the leading provider of device software solutions for the broadband access market. Network equipment providers count on Wind River to deliver highly reliable, carrier-grade solutions to meet the stringent demands of today's wireless network infrastructure. Our commercial-grade software solutions scale to meet the performance and application-specific demands of equipment being used in the core, edge, access, and customer premise. Both VxWorks and Wind River Platform for Network Equipment, Linux Edition are the operating systems of choice for a variety of wireless network elements such as network switches, base stations, gateways, Node B, routers, access points, femtocells, and home gateways.
Wireless network equipment providers can reduce risk, maximize intellectual property investments, and focus resources on competitive differentiation by leveraging Wind River's portfolio of networking-specific solutions. Our run-time platforms are integrated, tested, and validated with the latest multicore and high-performance communications processors for both custom and in-house and standards-based commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) hardware systems. Project teams can achieve significant development efficiencies and time-to-market advantages by utilizing our standards-based, cross-platform development tools and device management and advanced networking technologies. And our customers rely on Wind River's world-class support and professional services to achieve project and deployment success.
Key benefits include the following:
Run-Time Platforms and Technologies
- VxWorks: Proven, highly reliable, small footprint, with built-in advanced networking capability
- Wind River Platform for Network Equipment, Linux Edition: Carrier Grade Linux distribution integrated and validated with the leading multicore processors and COTS hardware systems for the broadband access market
- Wind River Linux: Commercial-grade Linux distribution integrated and validated with the leading single and multicore processors for networking
- Wind River Advanced Network Technologies: Optimized for Wind River run-time platforms, with high-performance IPv4/IPv6, Mobile IP, IPsec, and security
Developer Tools
- Wind River Workbench: Eclipse-based and optimized for Wind River run-time platforms, with specialized tools for multicore application debug and development and standardization on one common development environment
Device Management
- Wind River Test Management: Automated testing framework that finds defects before deployment, increases collaboration within project teams, reduces time-to-market, and enables higher-quality code, a must for network elements deploying in carrier-grade systems
- Wind River Field Diagnostics: Manages and dynamically resolves defects found in deployed equipment
Services and Support
- Wind River Professional Services: Design services, software and hardware optimization, application and system integration services, with a team of experts that can migrate your existing projects to the latest hardware and software technologies such as multicore processing
- Global Support: Product support 24/7 in the preferred language of your project team
Partners
Wind River has established the deepest and broadest partner ecosystem in the networking industry. We've joined forces with the industry-leading providers of advanced processors, ATCA/MicroTCA COTS systems hardware, and middleware/application software technologies to bring our customers increased value. By partnering, Wind River is able to offer integrated and optimized solutions that maximize hardware and software performance, reduce risk, shorten time to application development, lower costs, and enable competitive differentiation. Our integrated solutions are an ideal fit for companies developing devices for wireline and wireless networks, from core, edge, access, and customer premise. Wind River VxWorks and Wind River Linux platforms are deployed in network devices such as IMS core, rack mount servers, network controllers, gateways, base stations, routers, access points, and more.
Partner Spotlight
Hardware
Sun Microsystems
Sun Microsystems and Wind River have partnered to deliver carrier-grade ATCA blade servers for next-generation networking platforms. The Sun Netra CP3220 ATCA blade server based on the quad-core AMD Opteron processor and Wind River Linux offer a winning combination of high reliability and performance and outstanding energy efficiency.
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Software
GoAhead Software
Wind River and GoAhead Software have partnered to deliver high availability (HA) software solutions to meet the carrier-grade needs of advanced networking applications. Find out how our combined software solutions are helping customers achieve even greater product reliability and service availability.
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Wind River Networking Solutions Ecosystem
Advanced Processors
Commercial Off-the-Shelf Systems (COTS)
- Continuous Computing: ATCA systems integrated with Wind River Carrier Grade Linux
- Emerson Network Power: ATCA/MicroTCA system integration, VME, CompactPCI solutions
- Kontron: ATCA/MicroTCA system integration
- RadiSys: ATCA/MicroTCA system integration
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- Sun Microsystems: Netra ATCA system integration
Software Components
Sun Microsystems and Wind River
Build your next network element using Sun's Netra CP3220 ATCA blade server and Wind River
Platform for Network Equipment, Linux Edition
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To meet the demands of today's highly competitive global marketplace, the telecom and networking industries are striving to find cost-effective network solutions that meet the high performance and reliability requirements of next-generation networks. Building network elements using standards-based ATCA blade servers running multicore processors gives telecom equipment manufacturers (TEMs) and network equipment providers (NEPs) the opportunity to realize record packet processing performance and massive compute density while also achieving power and space savings and development efficiencies.
The Sun Netra CP3220 ATCA blade server delivers the breakthrough performance of AMD Opteron's multicore, 10GbE computing, and runs Wind River's Platform for Network Equipment, Linux Edition, the operating system of choice for highly reliable telecommunications and network elements.
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Highlights
- Standards-based ATCA solution ideally suited for 4G radio access networks, VoIP, triple-play, SS7, Sigtran, distributed HLR/VLR, and IMS services such as IPTV and multimedia streaming
- Quad-core AMD Opteron processor
- Carrier-grade availability and maximum density for next-generation data centers
- Cost-effective, high-performance, highly reliable carrier-grade system
- 10GbE for breakthrough performance, lower total cost-of-ownership, and investment protection
- Integrated with Wind River Platform for Network Equipment, Linux Edition, the industry's leading Carrier Grade Linux operating system
- Supported by the leading hardware and software providers for the telecom and networking industries, Sun and Wind River
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GoAhead Software and Wind River
Ensure system uptime and focus resources on innovation with GoAhead's SAFfire high availability and management middleware and Wind River's carrier-grade operating systems
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Failure is not an option in today's network infrastructure. Developers of carrier-grade and mission-critical systems are challenged with designing network elements that are 99.999% fault tolerant. GoAhead's SAFfire offers a sophisticated HA and management solution that provides the most comprehensive support for Service Availability Forum (SA Forum) standards: the Application Interface Specification (AIS) and the Hardware Platform Interface (HPI).
SAFfire has been integrated with Wind River's industry-leading carrier-grade operating systems. These highly reliable software combinations have been field tested and proven in systems deployed by customers in the telecom, defense, and aerospace industries. Both companies are committed to delivering standards-compliance solutions that help customers focus on innovation and differentiation and speed time-to-market.
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Highlights
- Lower project risk
- Field-proven solution for ATCA and MicroTCA-based network elements
- Deployed on tens of thousands of systems worldwide
- Application portability and platform independence
- Unmatched support for SA Forum standards
- Comprehensive implementation of AIS
- Integration with the leading hardware platforms via HPI
- Integration with both VxWorks and Wind River Linux
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Strategies for Developing Multifunction IMS Systems
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The growing number of connected mobile devices is impacting and shaping the future of the broadband wireless access market. By 2011 it is estimated there will be close to 4 billion mobile subscribers connected to networks through a variety of devices such as smartphones, mobile Internet devices (MIDS), and even automobiles. The iPhone and BlackBerry are two examples of smart devices that take advantage of the new broadband services offered by today's network. These devices are both consumers and producers of high-bandwidth data, voice, and video content. The combination of new devices with increasing multimedia capability and the growing number of subscribers to the network are driving service providers and an entire ecosystem of network equipment providers, systems integrators, and component vendors to find new ways to increase network capacity and deliver services wireless consumers want. 
