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Communications service providers (CSPs) are moving toward Open RAN, an industry standard focused on radio access interoperability particularly relevant for 5G. Open source communities play a critical role in developing open source technology implementations according to the Open RAN standard.
Wind River is committed to making Open RAN a success. To that end, we have been strategic about which open source projects we engage in and how. Given that background, this paper will give an overview of Wind River involvement with the Yocto Project, StarlingX, and the O-RAN Alliance.
Learn about the key features of Wind River Studio that drive value for communications service providers (CSPs) moving to Open RAN.
Open RAN could save up to 30% in total cost of operations (TCO) if built with the components that Wind River® Studio provides.
Studio has been proven in live deployments at scale. Its foundational components include a container-based distributed cloud platform and full-stack analytics, plus automation and orchestration.
Here is a sample of some of the unique and innovative features our customers rely on to keep down their TCO.
Studio has the lowest resource requirement in the market, with only two physical cores needed for the control plane. Optimizations will enable Studio to run on a single core on 4th Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors.
Studio can also operate on a single all-in-one node that includes control, storage, and worker.
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Wind River supports the complete end-to-end lifecycle management of infrastructure (O-Cloud) and O-RAN services in a single solution.
Integration between Wind River Studio Conductor and the hardware manager is used to implement the correct hardware configuration (BIOS firmware).
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Wind River is the only CaaS provider demonstrating the ability to reduce power consumption by up to 12%. (This demonstration was performed with O-RAN Alliance ecosystem members at the recent O-RAN PlugFest.)
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With Studio you can dynamically scale out the infrastructure (adding worker nodes) with no impact on the existing service(s). Scale from an all-in-one single server (AIO-SX) to a distributed cloud.
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Wind River is the only CaaS provider that can zero-touch provision a whole distributed cloud using an integrated orchestration framework.
You can execute deployment of a distributed cloud from an orchestrator and deploy a system controller and subclouds with a single click.
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Wind River is the only CaaS provider with the ability to execute patches and upgrades from a central location. Zero-touch operations are also possible.
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Benefit from full cloud-native distributed cloud capabilities (not just distributed compute). And service is available even during any communication failure between the central site and cell site.
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Use the lowest number of servers required to implement a high-availability solution, due to efficient hardware utilization capabilities and unique hyper-converged cloud architecture. You can benefit from high availability with as few as two nodes.
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Studio gives you out-of-the-box (i.e., ready for use from Day 0) ultra-low latency without further need for customizations or development. The low-latency kernel satisfies O-RAN low-latency requirements.
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Precision Time Protocol capabilities are available out of the box (i.e., ready for use from Day 0) without further need for customization or development.
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Wind River Studio delivers an integrated cloud platform unifying infrastructure, orchestration, and analytics capabilities so operators can deploy and manage their intelligent 5G edge networks globally.
Distributed networks are complex, so our focus with Wind River® Studio is on providing the Day 1 and Day 2 features needed for Open RAN that enable ease of deployment, increased levels of automation, and operational efficiency.
Leverage a distributed, cloud-native, container-based platform built for scale. Studio offers a commercially supported version of open source StarlingX.
Learn More »Remotely provision and operate thousands of nodes.
Learn More »Get complete visibility into your distributed cloud network.
Learn More »Scale your network from a handful of nodes to thousands in a geographically dispersed, distributed environment, through a single pane of glass.
Learn More »Deliver new services faster with edge-aware infrastructure and application lifecycle management, with hybrid public/private cloud integration.
Learn More »Operate and optimize your network using data and analytics with AI/ML-driven trend analysis.
Learn More »Automated, live updates and upgrades keep your system updated with minimal to no downtime.
Learn More »A recent study by Analysys Mason found that TCO reduction is significant enough to justify the move to Open RAN today, but operators need to have the right technology stack and skillsets to do so. Watch the webinar for details.
Ready to improve operations, reduce OpEx, and create new service opportunities? Contact us for more information or a private demonstration of Studio operator capabilities.
Contact Us »“I stand extremely firmly on the side in that we would not be deploying it if it wasn’t as good or better than what we have in place today.”
- Bill Stone, Verizon VP of Technology Development and Planning
Listen to a podcast with Verizon’s Srini Kalapala™ »“Our team has been working tirelessly to take OpenRAN technology from a theory in our lab to our customers in the real world — it’s remarkable how much has been achieved in such a short period of time.”
- Andrea Dona, Vodafone Chief Network Officer
Read a Forbes article, “A Vodafone Perspective On Key Market And Technology Trends“ »“We are pleased to announce that we have developed a 5G virtualized base station that complies with the O-RAN standard and has launched on our commercial network.“
- Kazuyuki Yoshimura, Chief Technology Officer, KDDI Corporation.
Read the press release »
“We are delighted to partner with Wind River on this important milestone for the first distributed and fully automated 5G edge commercial deployment in Europe. Edge cloud capability with Wind River Studio has the potential to further improve our customer satisfaction in the form of new services and enhanced customer experience, as well as strengthen Elisa’s position as the leading digital service provider in automating operations.”
-Sami Komulainen, Executive Vice President at Elisa
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“DOCOMO looks forward to deepening its cooperation with an expanding range of stakeholders, including overseas mobile operators, via the Shared Open Lab. DOCOMO is committed to working with its OREC partners to develop further technologies and know-how for the increased adoption of Open RAN, vRAN and other open networks capable of responding flexibly and quickly to diversifying needs in the worldwide mobile communication market.”
Read the press release »
5G is here and is accelerating edge cloud opportunities, such as virtual RAN (vRAN), multi-access edge computing (MEC), and the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT.) As carriers and other critical infrastructure companies explore these opportunities, they need to ensure that the solutions they select will meet the challenging requirements of the intelligent edge in areas such as security, ultra-low latency, telco-grade service uptime, small-footprint deployments, and streamlined operation.
This is one of the reasons carriers such as Verizon and Vodafone have selected a commercial deployment of StarlingX for their networks.
StarlingX is a cloud-native, Kubernetes, container-based infrastructure project hosted by the Open Infrastructure Foundation.
It provides a fully featured open source distributed cloud that is ideal for supporting critical infrastructure applications and services at the network edge.
For organizations that require full lifecycle support and services around an open source solution, Wind River® provides Wind River Studio as commercially supported StarlingX. Studio provides value-added capabilities and services that ensure our customers’ success, using the most advanced open source edge cloud solution available.
As the de facto O-Cloud platform for O-RAN Alliance, the StarlingX project is already accelerating the industry toward a common open source edge platform. We expect it to grow to span a wide variety of use cases, and we invite you to join this exciting, groundbreaking work.
Download the StarlingX source code, try it out, and join the discussion at starlingx.io. Or contact us to learn more.
» Contact UsStudio is the first cloud-native platform for the design, development, operation, and servicing of mission-critical intelligent edge systems that require security, safety, and reliability. Studio is architected to deliver digital scale across the full lifecycle through a single pane of glass to accelerate transformative business outcomes.
The core operator capabilities of Studio include:
セキュリティ、安全性、信頼性を必要とするミッションクリティカルなインテリジェントエッジシステムの開発、デプロイ、運用、サービスを行うための、クラウドネイティブプラットフォーム
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Wind River® has been involved in space systems for more than 25 years. As the leading software supplier for the development of intelligent edge devices, it is the partner of choice for the journey into the future.
