Wind River Carrier Grade Open Platform

A Mandate for Next-Generation Network Elements

As the next-generation network (NGN) begins, architecting highly reliable systems becomes a greater challenge. Designing carrier grade functionality in network elements and systems is the new mandate for today’s always-on network. Because the NGN equipment is being built from a diverse range of third-party hardware, software, and operating systems, it is critical that network equipment providers partner with suppliers who understand carrier grade and have a proven track record of delivering highly reliable solutions to the market.

Wind River is the industry leader, with a record of providing a carrier grade open platform software foundation for network elements in the core, edge, access, and even customer premise.

Key Benefits

• Competitive advantage: Allows you to focus development effort on value-add and competitive differentiation.
• Time-to-market: Integrates the leading communication multi-core processors, commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) hardware systems, and independent software vendor (ISV) middleware and technologies.
• Flexibility: Leverages open source, open standards, and a broad and rich set of interchangeable ISV ecosystem technologies.

Features

• Carrier Grade Linux 4.0 and VxWorks develop-and-run platform
• Multi-core ready: symmetric multiprocessing (SMP), asymmetric multiprocessing (AMP), hypervisors/virtualization
• Advanced software development tools for application development, system viewing, debugging, and test
• Integration with the leading high availability (HA) and system management middleware
• Integration with best-in-class middleware and software technologies including database, SIP, and network management
• Integration with the leading AdvancedTCA and COTS hardware systems
• Optimization for performance with the leading multi-core processors for communication systems
• Validation and testing with ecosystem hardware and software
• Open source and open standards support
• OpenSAF, SAF, AIS, HPI
• Eclipse-based development environment

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