Wind River Platform for Networking Equipment, VxWorks Edition and Wind River Linux provide developers with a Device Software Optimization (DSO) solution that supports the two leading operating systems for device development, VxWorks and Linux. Both are tightly integrated with Wind River Workbench, the premier Eclipse-based device software development suite, and are backed by Wind River's 25 years of device software experience, a broad network of hardware and software partners, a world-class support organization, and a specialized professional services team.
Both VxWorks and Wind River Linux enable 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 environment and migrate easily from project to project.
Wind River Linux 3.0 comes with all the features and hardware support of the previous platform editions in one single product and replaces the previous Linux editions of Wind River General Purpose Platform, Wind River Platform for Consumer Devices, and Platform for Networking Equipment. This provides customers with more flexibility and reduces purchasing and licensing complexity. Wind River Linux 3.0 comes with a set of preconfigured system profiles that make it easy to jump-start device-specific development and allow device manufacturers to bring devices to market easier, faster, and more cost-effectively than ever before.
Key features and functionality include the following:
- Linux run-time: Based on the Carrier Grade Linux (CGL) 4.0 specification, Wind River Linux 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 Linux and VxWorks. Based on Linux kernel 2.6.27 and GCC 4.3, Wind River Linux includes more than 500 software packages, specifications for fast boot-up time, small footprint and performance optimization, and sophisticated multicore features such as virtualization and multicore offload.
- VxWorks run-time: Platform for Networking 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 enhanced POSIX compliance (including certified POSIX 52 conformance) and TIPC. Platform for Networking Equipment integrates Wind River Advanced Networking Technologies and provides the latest standard support for IPv4/IPv6, Wi-Fi, security protocols, and device management, and it also meets current demand for performance, security, wireless, and mobility functionality. Asymmetric multiprocessing (AMP) and symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) support is now available for all VxWorks 6.7–based platforms through the VxWorks 6.7 Multiprocessing optional add-on product.
- 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 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 (BSPs).
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