Features

Key features and functionality include the following:

• VxWorks RTOS: The industry's leading embedded operating system is ideally suited for devices requiring a proven, highly scalable, hard real-time, deterministic run-time environment. The platform includes a comprehensive multi-core support (both AMP and SMP) networking stack that features Wind River Advanced Networking Technologies, enhanced memory protection, error management, and POSIX compliance. The latest edition is also backward-compatible with earlier versions of VxWorks, allowing customers to leverage existing and legacy software assets.
• Wind River Workbench: 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. Workbench is extensible and scalable, allowing developers to meet specific project needs, and it can seamlessly integrate hundreds of third-party plug-ins.
• Extensive partner technologies: To ensure integrated technologies, Wind River has established the industry's widest-ranging partner ecosystem, joining forces with leading hardware and software providers to address such technologies as advanced file systems, level 2 and 3 networking protocols, advanced graphics, reference designs, and board support packages (BSPs).
• Networking, wireless, and security support: The platform integrates Wind River Advanced Networking Technologies, an extensive portfolio of networking and security protocols to protect network data. This portfolio provides implementations of IPsec and IKE, firewall and NAT, RADIUS client, 802.11i wireless security, Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), and digital certificates. It also provides support for wireless and mobility applications. These protocols can be used in any combination to provide secure applications that require access control, authentication, or privacy.
  

Customer Success

Wind River sped time-to-market for Siemens' advanced IP routers.		Raptor Networks used Wind River technology for their Ether Raptor 1010 distributed switching solution.
Airspan built a next-generation wireless WiMAX subscriber station with Wind River Platform for Network Equipment.

Wind River Professional Services

Wind River Network Equipment Services Practice

As part of our complete networking solution, Wind River offers a Network Equipment Services Practice, with outsourced engineering services specifically designed to help our customers meet strict market deadlines while keeping development costs down. Services include device design, network management and security, network compliance testing, wireless networking support, layer 2 Ethernet switching, BSP/LSP and device driver optimization, legacy application and infrastructure migration, Linux migration, and real-time best practices.

Architecture and Host Support

• Target processor architectures
  • ARM
  • IA
  • MIPS
  • PowerPC
• Processor vendors
  • AMD (IA)
  • Broadcom (MIPS)
  • Cavium Networks (MIPS)
  • Freescale Semiconductor (PowerPC)
  • IBM (PowerPC)
  • Intel (IA, XScale)
  • Mips Technologies (MIPS)
  • PA Semi (PowerPC)
  • Raza Microelectronics (MIPS)
  • Xilinx (PowerPC)
• Host operating systems
  • Linux
  • Solaris
  • Windows

Network Equipment Partners

Wind River's world-class partner ecosystem assures tight integration between our core technologies and those of the premier hardware and software companies we've chosen to build out our solutions. Our partners help to extend the capabilities of Wind River's development and run-time platforms by offering out-of-the-box integration and support for key technologies in the fast-moving network equipment market. Our customer support team is trained to troubleshoot partner technologies in use with Wind River products, making ours the most comprehensive and best supported partner ecosystem in the DSO industry.

Please click on any technology below to learn more about our
network platform partners:

Affiliations

At Wind River, we applaud the move toward open industry standards. Because we believe the world is changing too fast to lock our customers into proprietary technologies, we've built our DSO solution on open standards, expertly integrated and intelligently applied.

Wind River does not just embrace open standards, we're taking the lead in establishing them. Driving the Device Software Development Platform 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 OSDL; participating in AutoSAR - these are just a few examples of our commitment to evolving standards.

Eclipse Foundation
Eclipse is an open platform for tool integration built by an open community of tool providers. Operating under an open-source paradigm with a common public license that provides royalty-free source code and worldwide redistribution rights, the Eclipse platform enables tool developers to have ultimate flexibility and control over their software technology.

The Linux Foundation
The Linux Foundation (formerly known as the Open Source Developers Lab, or OSDL)—home to Linus Torvalds, creator of Linux—is dedicated to accelerating the growth and adoption of Linux in the enterprise. Supported by a global consortium of IT industry leaders, The Linux Foundation is a nonprofit organization that provides state-of the-art computing and test facilities in the United States and Japan for developers around the world. Founding members include IBM, HP, CA, Intel, and NEC.

SCOPE Alliance
SCOPE is an industry alliance committed to accelerating the deployment of carrier-grade base platforms for service provider applications. Its mission is to help, enable, and promote the availability of open carrier-grade base platforms based on COTS hardware/software and Free Open Source Software (FOSS) building blocks, and to promote interoperability to better serve service providers and consumers.

Service Availability Forum
The Service Availability™ Forum (SA Forum) is a consortium of industry-leading communications and computing companies working together to develop and publish high-availability and management software interface specifications. SA Forum then promotes and facilitates specification adoption by the industry.