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
- Wireless Broadband Access: Industry's leading device software solution for wireless network element
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 Test Management
Test Management is a comprehensive device software test system that streamlines the workflow between developers and test engineers through an automated process of dynamic testing, diagnosing, and resolving defects in application software.
Wind River Field Diagnostics
Beyond deployment, Field Diagnostics gives network equipment providers a secure infrastructure to debug, test, diagnose, and repair running software on deployed devices 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
Hardware
RadiSys
RadiSys and Wind River have partnered to deliver integrated and validated carrier-grade ATCA platform solutions for next-generation networking. RadiSys' Promentum 10 Gigabit Ethernet systems combined with Wind River's Carrier Grade Linux operating system offer an industry-leading application-ready platform that allows telecommunications equipment manufacturers (TEMs) to lower total cost of ownership, focus on competitive differentiation, and speed time-to-market.
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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
(white paper, registration required)
- Sun Microsystems: Netra ATCA system integration
Software Components
RadiSys and Wind River
Start building your network application today with RadiSys' Promentum ATCA systems and
Wind River Platform for Network Equipment, Linux Edition
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Leveraging an integrated standards-based hardware and software platform benefits customers in many ways. In addition to providing a head start for product development, it removes the burden of managing multiple building-block components from the various suppliers that make up an application-ready system. By choosing the right integrated and validated ATCA-based platform, TEMs can take advantage of total life cycle management and gain access to expert service offerings and training that will ultimately lower cost of ownership, allow teams to focus on the value-add features, and accelerate time-to-market.
The RadiSys Promentum family of ATCA-based platforms offers the highest bandwidth node connectivity, up-link and cross-link capability, and the highest processing density per slot. Integrated with Wind River's carrier-grade Platform for Network Equipment, Linux Edition, the combined solution offers a leading-edge packet processing functionality, scalable to meet the demands of today's and tomorrow's next-generation network elements.
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Highlights
- 10 Gigabit Ethernet fabric AdvancedTCA application-ready platform architecture
- Variety of modules to create various configurations to meet specific application
- Modular design for system scalability
- NPU-based line card for wire-speed packet processing
- Dual core Intel processor
- NEBS qualified
- Wind River Platform for Network Equipment, Linux Edition
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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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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.
