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Transforming the Network with Wind River Intelligent Network Platform
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Wind River Intelligent Network Platform Product Overview
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Wind River® Intelligent Network Platform is an integrated embedded software system that serves as a run-time foundation for network elements of all kinds. The platform integrates the key software components needed to design high-performance, intelligent network applications in a consolidated management and data plane system. The most comprehensive software-enabled packet acceleration and deep packet inspection (DPI) solution on the market today, Intelligent Network Platform has been architected to deliver maximum scalability and flexibility to build faster, smarter, and more secure products.
Key Components
Wind River Intelligent Network Platform includes the critical run-time components and life cycle development tools, services, and support needed to successfully build and deploy intelligent network elements. Intelligent Network Platform has been fully integrated and optimized with Wind River Linux. However, the platform also offers the flexibility to utilize one or all of the data plane engines with other Linux distributions.
Faster
Wind River Application Acceleration Engine: Data plane network stack designed for the acceleration of layer 3 and 4 protocols and applications
- Up to 1,100% faster IP forwarding than native Linux
- Up to 500% faster UDP or TCP termination than native Linux
- Up to 300% acceleration of existing Linux-based applications with no code change
- Up to 28x reduced latency for DPI pattern matching
- The only packet acceleration solution pre-integrated with Intel® Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK)
Smarter
Flow Analysis Engine: DPI solution that enables complete visibility into network traffic in real-time, including protocol and application identification
- Optimized for multi-core processors
- Maximum protocol and application identification functionality
- Comprehensive traffic metadata functionality
More Secure
Wind River Content Inspection Engine: High-speed pattern-matching and DPI solution
- High performance, low latency
- Full intrusion detection and prevention functionality
- 500% faster than open source DPI solutions
Life Cycle Development Tools
The platform is supported by the comprehensive Wind River portfolio of development tools. Customers can use the tools to simulate entire systems, quickly configure run-time environments, analyze and tune system software, and debug for higher quality software.
Use Cases
Wind River Intelligent Network Platform serves as the foundation for network products in access, edge, and core; and in wireless, wireline, and security appliance markets. The platform can be used to accelerate a variety of applications running on LTE network elements, cloud elements, and software-defined network elements. Specific use cases include the following:
- Cloud radio access networks
- Data centers
- Intrusion detection and intrusion prevention applications
- Media gateways
- Microserver acceleration
- Mobile access, edge, and core
- Next-generation firewalls
- Server acceleration and offload
- Virtual private networks (VPNs)
Key Features
- Consolidated management and data plane embedded software
- Packet acceleration and throughput of any Linux-based network application
- Integrated yet separable data plane engines
- Comprehensive DPI functionality
- Full integration and optimization with Intel DPDK
- Carrier Grade Linux
Key Benefits
- One source for all critical management and data plane software components
- High performance run-time environment for maximum packet throughput results, in both legacy and next-generation applications
- Most comprehensive software-enabled DPI
- Scalable run-time environment for use across all network element portfolio products
- Lowest total cost of ownership for a management and data plane consolidated software system
- Substantial time-to-market savings with several engineering years of development already completed, tested, integrated, and deployed
- Fully supported
