Wind River Platform for Network Equipment

Wind River Platform for Network Equipment provides developers with a device software optimization (DSO) solution that supports the two leading operating systems for device development, VxWorks and Linux, each with a separate edition of the platform. Both versions of Platform for Network Equipment are tightly integrated with Wind River Workbench, the premier Eclipse-based device software development suite, and are backed by Wind River's 20+ years of device software experience, a broad network of hardware and software partners, a world-class support organization, and a specialized professional services team.

Platform for Network Equipment enables companies to decrease time-to-market and improve quality for a variety of devices, from expensive chassis-based carrier-class equipment to resource-constrained, price-sensitive consumer electronics products. The platform offers multiple processor support and operating system flexibility, allowing developers to standardize on a single comprehensive development suite and migrate easily from project to project.

Key features and functionality include:

• Linux Run-Time: Based on a Carrier Grade Linux distribution, Platform for Network Equipment, Linux Edition, has been integrated with many of the industry's most popular telecom boards, making it an ideal fit for the telecommunications and high-end data networking markets. It supports the emerging PICMG 3.x Advanced Telecommunications Computing Architecture (ATCA) specification and various high-availability functions, and includes a standards-based interprocess communication (IPC) mechanism that connects the Linux and VxWorks editions of the platform. This tested and validated Linux platform is supported and maintained by Wind River.
• VxWorks Run-Time: Platform for Network Equipment, VxWorks Edition, relies on the proven, stringent, and deterministic real-time operating system successfully deployed in millions of network equipment devices worldwide. The platform's integrated run-time technologies provide process support, advanced memory protection, and configurable error management, as well as increased POSIX compliance and TIPC. Platform for Network Equipment includes the latest standard support for IPv4/IPv6, Wi-Fi, security protocols, and device management, and it also meets current demand for performance, security, and wireless functionality.
• Wind River Workbench: An integrated development suite based on the Eclipse framework, Workbench provides deep capabilities that support the entire development lifecycle, 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 a complete range of integrated technologies, Wind River has established the DSO 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, reference designs, and board support packages.
• Education Credits: Platform for Network Equipment includes credits that can be used to fund education courses for project personnel, ensuring that product development gets off to a quick start and stays on schedule.

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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.

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Wind River Network Infrastructure Services Practice

As part of its complete network infrastructure solution, Wind River offers a Network Infrastructure 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.

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Architecture and Host Support

Target Processor Architecture	Host Operating Systems
AMCC ARM Freescale IBM Intel MIPS Renesas	Linux Solaris Windows

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Network Infrastructure 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 infrastructure 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:

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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.

Communications Platforms Trade Association (CP-TA)
The CP-TA is an association of communications platform and building-block providers dedicated to accelerating the adoption of SIG-governed, open-specification-based communications platforms through interoperability certification. With industry collaboration, the CP-TA plans to drive a mainstream market for open industry standards-based communications platforms by certifying interoperable building blocks.

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.

Open Source Developers Lab
Open Source Developers Lab (OSDL) - home to Linus Torvalds, creator of Linux - is dedicated to accelerating the growth and adoption of Linux in the enterprise. Founded in 2000 and supported by a global consortium of IT industry leaders, OSDL 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. OSDL's 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 ^TM 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.