ACCELERATE SOFTWARE-DEFINED NETWORKING
INTRODUCING WIND RIVER
OPEN NETWORK SOFTWARE
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We Provide the Network Platform so You Can Focus Software-defined networking (SDN) provides a flexible and modular approach to traditional networks by logically separating the network control plane from the data forwarding plane. The industry shift to SDN empowers network operators to find solutions to their unique requirements, diversifies their supply chain by lowering the barriers for entry, and generally increases the pace of innovation in the industry. Wind River® Open Network Software is a complete network switch software environment that provides the tools and resources needed to create, modify, and update network layers' L1, L2+, and L3+ functionality. The core architecture is highly flexible and object-oriented, designed for adaptations and feature modifications while preserving the integrity of the core. Open Network Software comes fully integrated with Intel® processor and switching hardware, yet is easily transportable to different environments. For equipment manufacturers, the industry shift to SDN presents both challenges and opportunities. Open Network Software addresses both by providing a platform with native networking capabilities as a foundation for innovation, allowing you to focus resources on the specific value-added capabilities that comprise your core competency and differentiators. |
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Future-Proof Network Software Platform
Overview
Open Network Software is a network software environment that offers equipment manufacturers the following features:
- Modular and extensible platform
- Well-defined and open system interfaces
- Widely used and supported programmatic management interface
- Object-oriented design
- Multi-platform cross-compiler development environment
- Full integration with Intel® processors and switch silicon
- Hardware-agnostic platform
- Automated system test environment
- Simulated environment for development and testing
- Native suite of basic network protocols
- Optional advanced networking modules
Why Open Network Software?
Why Open Network Software?
Open Network Software is the ideal platform upon which to build a differentiated, SDN-optimized network device or appliance, offering the following key benefits:
- Easy debugging and support, with rapid turnaround time due to the object-oriented design and well-defined system interfaces
- Compiling on all major operating systems; supports multithreading and multi-core processors
- Easy maintenance of the build environment (automake, autoconf)
- Automated unit, subsystem, and system test environment; regression test suites available
- Solution testing in a scalable simulated network, with multiple instantiations of a switch simulator on a Linux host
- Wind River services, support, and education
Differentiate Yourself
Differentiate Yourself
The Open Network Software platform provides you with all the basic components required for a network device, and with all the tools and interfaces required to add your differentiated functionality. The modular and layered construction of Open Network Software simplifies adaptation to different hardware platforms, management and control environments, and functionality. You can focus on refining functions that are your core competency and that differentiate your network device from the competition, reducing development costs, time-to-market, and maintenance costs.
