Motorola and Wind River Join Forces to Provide Integrated AdvancedTCA/MicroTCA Communications Servers
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TEMPE, Ariz. and ALAMEDA, Calif. — 6 August 2007 — Motorola, Inc. (NYSE: MOT) and Wind River Systems (NASDAQ: WIND) today announced that they have formed a strategic alliance designed to provide integrated AdvancedTCA® (ATCA®) and MicroTCATM communication platforms with Carrier Grade Linux and VxWorks runtimes. Through this agreement, Motorola's embedded communications computing business and Wind River will work together to deliver bundled hardware and software solutions for next-generation networking designs for the telecom, military and aerospace, medical and industrial automation industries. The companies also will provide joint customer support, as well as collaborate on product development and on driving joint value for industry initiatives such as OpenSAF high availability software, virtualization technologies and development environments for multicore processors. "Collaborating with an industry leader like Wind River demonstrates
Motorola's commitment to extend the benefits of leading-edge, multicore
technologies such as MicroTCA and AdvancedTCA to our joint customers," said
Stephen Dow, vice president and general manager, Embedded Communications
Computing, Motorola, Inc. "It also enables us to offer our customers a choice of
the best components from third party software providers, illustrating the
strength and maturity of the xTCA ecosystem." The first bundled solution, a MicroTCA-based COTS solution with Wind River Carrier Grade Linux, is now available through leading global distributors Arrow Electronics, Inc. and Avnet Applied Computing Solutions. Other solutions including the ATCA-9301 Cavium Octeon-based solution are expected to be available later this year. |
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About Wind River Founded in 1981, Wind River is headquartered in Alameda, California, with operations worldwide. To learn more, visit Wind River at www.windriver.com or call 1-800-872-4977. |
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About Motorola |
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MOTOROLA and the Stylized M Logo are registered in the US Patent & Trademark Office. Service Availability Forum is a proprietary trademark used under license. All other product or service names are the property of their respective owners. © Motorola, Inc. 2007. All rights reserved. The Wind River logo is a trademark of Wind River Systems, Inc., and Wind River and VxWorks are registered trademarks of Wind River Systems. Other marks used herein are the property of the respective owners. |
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Contact Information Wind River Systems U.K. Ltd Isabelle Denis Tel.: +33-1-6486-6664 |


