Why Wind River
With Wind River, you can leverage new open-standards technologies without sacrificing previous investments in core intellectual property, run-time environments, and development tools. You can keep up with the latest hardware advancements and standards, and have the flexibility to use best-of-breed solutions across your product portfolio. You can standardize on one middleware layer across multiple equipment projects, and even easily upgrade software on equipment already in the field. You can support multinational development teams, standards, and languages.
We offer complete application-enabling platforms that provide advanced networking, security, and management functionality, backed by a professional services practice that can extend the capabilities of your engineering team. To learn more about Wind River networking solutions, contact us today.
Network Equipment Platforms: From VxWorks, the proven industry-leading RTOS, to commercial-grade, open-source Linux solutions (and application-ready ATCA-based solutions) to Wind River Workbench
Solutions (ATCA): Industry's first integrated, validated application-ready ATCA COTS solution
Standards: Wind River is affiliated with the Eclipse Foundation, The Linux Foundation, SCOPE, SA Forum, WiMAX Forum, and more
Platforms
Two Run-Time Platforms. One Common Development Environment.
Unlimited Flexibility and Potential.
We open up your options and protect you from technology lock-in. With Wind River, you get a complete networking solution, from software development through deployment and management, from hardware optimization through middleware integration. We deliver complete application-enabling platforms for our proven VxWorks RTOS and for commercial-grade, open-source Linux for carrier grade network equipment. Both run-times are supported by our comprehensive development suite, Wind River Workbench; and both leverage a common, standards-based network stack.
Platform for Network Equipment, VxWorks Edition
For network applications that require high determinism, fast throughput, and a small memory footprint, Wind River offers Platform for Network Equipment, VxWorks Edition. This platform is based on our industry-leading real-time OS and the most widely used and field-proven device software operating system available today.
Key benefits include the following:
- Integrated, advanced networking and security protocol
- Reliable performance
- Small footprint
- Support for leading networking BSPs and COTS hardware solutions
Platform for Network Equipment, Linux Edition
Ideal for telecommunications and high-end data networking markets, Platform for Network Equipment offers a commercial-grade distribution based on a unique "pristine-source" kernel, giving you full visibility into the kernel, along with integrated patches and packages. Wind River is the industry leader in delivering open-standards-based Carrier Grade Linux, the preferred OS for ATCA-based equipment.
Key benefits include:
- Fully integrated, tested, validated, and maintained "pristine-source" distribution with advanced networking, security, and other open-source technologies
- Ability to scale from reduced footprint to carrier-grade ATCA-based projects
- Support for several ATCA-based and network equipment COTS solutions
- Eclipse-based end-to-end development tools with workflow optimization
Wind River Workbench
Workbench unlocks the power of Wind River Linux and VxWorks for network equipment development teams. An integrated development suite based on the Eclipse framework, Workbench provides deep capabilities that support the entire development life cycle, from hardware bring-up to platform and application development, and enables standardization on one common development suite across the enterprise. Through its tight integration with Wind River run-time platforms, Workbench helps boost productivity, reduce costs, and improve time-to-market.
Wind River Device Management
Beyond deployment, Wind River Device Management products give network equipment providers a secure infrastructure to debug, test, diagnose, and repair running software during development, in the test lab, and in the field,
Advanced Networking Technologies
Wind River also provides a common set of advanced networking technologies—key networking protocols and APIs—optimized for our VxWorks and Linux platforms. The Wind River Network Stack, based on proven Interpeak technologies, is an investment that can be leveraged across both run-time environments, giving you efficiency of scale while enhancing key areas such as IPv6, wireless connectivity, IP mobility, and networking performance.
Standards
A Leader in Employing and Building Open Industry Standards
Wind River is committed to standards—we built our DSO solution on them, and we are taking the lead in establishing them. Our commitment to evolving standards includes driving the Device Software Development Platform (DSDP) project at the Eclipse Foundation; providing TIPC support for messaging on the backplane between different operating systems; and leading the way on Carrier Grade Linux with The Linux Foundation (formerly OSDL).
Eclipse Foundation: This open community of tool providers enables tool developers to gain ultimate flexibility and control over their software technology.
The Linux Foundation (formerly OSDL): Committed to accelerating the growth and adoption of Linux in the enterprise. Founding members including IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Computer Associates, Intel, and NEC (home to Linus Torvalds, creator of Linux).
Mountain View Alliance: Works to accelerate the adoption of platforms and building blocks based on the specifications of member organizations; promotes a diverse and thriving ecosystem of open-specification-based components and platforms.
SCOPE Alliance: Dedicated to accelerating the deployment of carrier-grade platforms for service provider applications; enabling and promoting the availability of open carrier-grade platforms based on COTS hardware/software and open-source building blocks; and promoting interoperability to better serve service providers and consumers.
Service Availability Forum (SA Forum): Develops and publishes high-availability and management software interface specifications; then promotes and facilitates specification adoption by the industry.
WiMAX Forum: Promotes and certifies the compatibility and interoperability of broadband wireless products using the IEEE 802.16 and ETSI HiperMAN wireless MAN specifications, and accelerates the introduction of these devices into the marketplace.
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
Sun Microsystems
Wind River and Sun Microsystems have partnered to deliver leading-edge carrier-grade networking solutions that address the growing need of telecom and network equipment manufacturers for devices that offer higher throughput and higher performance computing. Find out more about our recent announcement to integrate Wind River Platform for Network Equipment with Sun's UltraSPARC T2 processor.
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Wind River Networking Solutions Ecosystem
Advanced Processors
Commercial Off-the-Shelf Systems (COTS)
Software Components
For telecom equipment manufacturers (TEMs) and network equipment provider (NEPs), complexity has become a way of life. You face increasing pressure to deliver on the promise of new communications services, which in turn drives new equipment designs and requirements across the entire network infrastructure—from core to access to edge equipment. Consider these developments: Fixed Mobile Convergence (FMC); seamless voice, video, data, and wireless integration; Next Generation Networking (NGN) and the IP Multimedia Subsystem; standards specifications and interoperability; open-source software and scalable, reusable IP; commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) solutions; and heterogeneous connectivity requirements.
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