NEWS HIGHLIGHTS

• Wind River Platform for Infotainment is GENIVI 5.0 compliant.


• Platform for Infotainment is now available on the latest SoCs from Renesas and NVIDIA designed for advanced visual applications for automotive systems.


• Wind River has developed proof-of-concepts for ECU consolidation.

ALAMEDA, Calif. – May 20, 2014 – Wind River®, a world leader in delivering software for intelligent connected systems, has enhanced Wind River Platform for Infotainment to be compliant to the GENIVI® Compliance 5.0 specification. Additional updates to Platform for Infotainment include availability on new reference hardware and work with ecosystem collaborators to further grow capabilities such as enhanced data connectivity.

By using Platform for Infotainment, customers can quickly build a GENIVI-compliant automotive in-vehicle infotainment (IVI) platform. Additional updates to Platform for Infotainment include the following:

• Availability on new reference hardware for the Renesas R-Car H2/M2 and NVIDIA Tegra K1, system-on-chips (SoCs) for next-generation, high-end IVI and information systems targeting visual computing applications in areas such as automotive navigation, IVI, and driver assist systems


• Integration with Tuxera file system solutions, ensuring fully interoperable data connectivity and plug-and-play interoperability with externally brought-in data storage, and fail-safe design protecting against lost user content during plug-off or a power drop


• User interface and graphical development enhancements and Wayland/Weston enablement

Wind River has also developed proof-of-concepts that consolidate digital cluster displays and an IVI system onto a single architecture or electronic control unit (ECU). As automotive systems become more sophisticated, the number of ECUs and their complexity is also rising. The Wind River ECU consolidation proof-of-concept not only demonstrates space and power savings but also reduces complexity by moving integration efforts from hardware to software. This approach creates an opportunity to consolidate more of the software-driven functions onto fewer but more powerful hardware platforms.

"As automotive systems become more complex in order to keep up with evolving demands and requirements, software is increasingly playing a more significant role,” said Georg Doll, vice president of automotive solutions at Wind River. “With new challenges stemming from movements like the Internet of Things and rising connectivity in cars, there is a growing need to find experts like Wind River who possess deep software and integration expertise. Few companies have the mix of automotive, embedded, and open source software experience and industry relationships to successfully guide customers through today’s complex projects.”

The GENIVI-compliant Wind River Platform for Infotainment is an automotive IVI software platform based on the Yocto Project open source development infrastructure. The platform includes reference boards, accompanied by integrated software development and test tools, along with Yocto Project toolchain components. Being Yocto Project Compatible allows for greater cross-platform compatibility and component interoperability, and helps developers utilize open source for its capability for rapid innovation.

In addition to Platform for Infotainment, the Wind River automotive portfolio also includes expert system integration services, multimedia, and connectivity; technologies such as iOS connectivity, fastboot, Audio Video Bridging (AVB) Android, GENIVI expertise and solutions, Tizen integration services, Security Profile for Wind River Linux, and VxWorks®; and tools such as Wind River Diab Compiler, Wind River Simics® simulation, and virtualization technologies. This diverse expertise and comprehensive portfolio allows Wind River to support the auto industry in almost any project, from infotainment and telematics to digital cluster display projects.

More information about Wind River automotive technologies can be found at http://tinyurl.com/pfi052014.

About Wind River
Wind River, a wholly owned subsidiary of Intel® Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC), is a world leader in delivering software for intelligent connected systems. The company has been pioneering computing inside embedded devices since 1981, and its technology is found in more than 1 billion products. Wind River offers the industry's most comprehensive embedded software portfolio, supported by world-class global professional services and support, and a broad partner ecosystem. Wind River delivers the technology and expertise that enables the innovation and deployment of safe, secure, and reliable intelligent systems. To learn more, visit Wind River at www.windriver.com.
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NEWS HIGHLIGHTS

• Marks sixth consecutive year Wind River receives prestigious Confirmit ACE Award.
• Company earns award for outstanding achievement in global customer support.
• Award recognizes leaders using customer feedback to increase customer satisfaction and improve business results.

 

ALAMEDA, Calif. – May 8, 2014 – Wind River®, a world leader in delivering software for intelligent connected systems, today announced that it is a recipient of the 2014 Confirmit ACE (Achievement in Customer Excellence) Award in the area of worldwide customer satisfaction. The company earned the award based on overall satisfaction with Wind River customer support as determined by its global customer base.

The Confirmit ACE Awards program acknowledges outstanding achievement in customer satisfaction, employee satisfaction, and/or partner satisfaction. To qualify for the award, an elite group of Confirmit clients must achieve a combination of customer satisfaction mean scores and top-box rating percentages that are maintained for at least a six-month period between October 1, 2012 and December 31, 2013. Receiving a Confirmit ACE Award demonstrates the recipient’s rigorous application of customer feedback processes and its performance as measured by those processes.

Craig Lewis, senior vice president, worldwide sales at Wind River, commented, "We are honored to have been awarded a Confirmit ACE Award for the sixth consecutive year.  Our customers provide us with the invaluable input that allows us to offer world-class support for our product portfolio, and this recognition is a reflection on our commitment to ensuring they have the best possible experience. The Confirmit ACE Awards program serves as a framework for continuous improvement and is critical to Wind River’s continued success.”

"Wind River is a true leader in customer excellence. Its comprehensive program ensures that customer feedback is fully integrated into the company to improve overall business results,” said Henning Hansen, President and CEO of Confirmit. “We are honored that Wind River relies on Confirmit for its customer experience initiatives, and look forward to continuing to support their program as it continues to evolve.”

 

About Wind River

Wind River, a wholly owned subsidiary of Intel® Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC), is a world leader in delivering software for intelligent connected systems. The company has been pioneering computing inside embedded devices since 1981, and its technology is found in more than 1 billion products. Wind River offers the industry's most comprehensive embedded software portfolio supported by world-class global professional services and support, and a broad partner ecosystem. Wind River delivers the technology and expertise that enables the innovation and deployment of safe, secure, and reliable intelligent systems. To learn more, visit Wind River at www.windriver.com.

 

 

 

 

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NEWS HIGHLIGHTS

• Wind River accelerated virtual switch software delivers 20x the performance of the standard Open vSwitch with no hardware acceleration required.
• Accelerated vSwitch is integrated within Wind River Carrier Grade Communications Server as part of a comprehensive infrastructure platform for NFV applications.
• Carrier Grade Communications Server is the only commercial platform delivering six 9s (99.9999%) reliability for telecom networks, delivering up to 1,000x uptime improvement compared to enterprise-class solutions.

ALAMEDA, Calif. – May 7, 2014 – Wind River®, a world leader in delivering software for intelligent connected systems, announced that it has achieved industry-leading performance with its accelerated virtual switch (vSwitch) integrated within Wind River Carrier Grade Communications Server, which is designed for network functions virtualization (NFV). The accelerated vSwitch can deliver 12 million packets per second to guest virtual machines (VMs) using only two processor cores on an industry-standard server platform, in a real-world use case involving bidirectional traffic. This performance represents 20 times that of the standard Open vSwitch (OVS) software used in typical enterprise data centers. Providing unlimited scalability when instantiated on multiple cores, this industry-leading performance is achieved using up to 33% fewer CPU resources than other commercial solutions, with no requirement for specific hardware acceleration.

As service providers adopt NFV architectures in order to reduce network operating expenses and accelerate the deployment of new value-added services, the vSwitch plays a key function within the infrastructure platform that runs virtualized network functions (VNFs). The performance of the vSwitch determines the bandwidth of network traffic processed by the VNFs and directly influences the overall cost performance of the platform. Since service providers will ultimately derive revenue from services based on virtualized applications, it is important to minimize the processor resources consumed by the vSwitch function and maximize the resources available for VNFs.

The accelerated vSwitch within the Wind River Carrier Grade Communications Server can switch 12 million packets per second (64-byte packets) using only two processor cores within a dual-socket Intel® Xeon® processor platform running at 2.9 GHz. This measurement is based on bidirectional network traffic running from the network interface card (NIC) to the vSwitch, through a VM and back through the vSwitch to the NIC. This represents a real-world NFV configuration, rather than a simplified configuration where traffic runs only from the NIC to the vSwitch and back to the NIC (bypassing the VM so that no useful work in performed). The performance of the vSwitch is fully deterministic and scales linearly with the number of processor cores allocated to run the function, providing the scalability required for NFV deployments with ongoing changes in bandwidth requirements.

The Wind River accelerated vSwitch enables the rapid deployment of virtualized applications by supporting a wide range of guest operating systems running in the VMs. These guest OSes include enterprise-class Linux distributions, customer-specific “roll-your-own” Linux implementations, Windows® and Wind River Linux. The accelerated vSwitch supports standard, unmodified guest applications and the industry-standard Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) hypervisor. Virtual applications based on the Intel Data Plane Development Kit (Intel DPDK) can run unmodified thanks to the Wind River Advanced Virtual Port poll-mode virtual NIC driver. These unique features allow service providers and telecom equipment manufacturers (TEMs) to leverage the performance, scalability and reliability of the accelerated vSwitch without having to modify and re-validate their existing applications.

“As a key element in our Carrier Grade Communications Server, our accelerated vSwitch was designed from the ground-up to incorporate the Carrier Grade features that are critically important for telecom networks that must deliver six 9s reliability,” said Mike Langlois, general manager of the communications business for Wind River. "For example, the accelerated vSwitch provides fast convergence during live migration of VMs, while minimizing the impact of dirty page updates. To allow for optimum resource allocation, it provides deterministic processing performance without the jitter of over 10% exhibited by the standard Open vSwitch. Finally, protocols such as LAG, VLAN tagging, and VXLAN provide the security features that are essential for telecom networks.”

Wind River Carrier Grade Communications Server, including the accelerated vSwitch, is available now as an early release for select customers. To learn more about the Wind River Carrier Grade Communications Server and how Wind River is addressing the opportunities and challenges created by NFV and network transformation, visit http://tinyurl.com/vswitch050714.

About Wind River

Wind River, a wholly owned subsidiary of Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC), is a world leader in delivering software for intelligent connected systems. The company has been pioneering computing inside embedded devices since 1981, and its technology is found in more than 1 billion products. Wind River offers the industry's most comprehensive embedded software portfolio, supported by world-class global professional services and support, and a broad partner ecosystem. Wind River delivers the technology and expertise that enables the innovation and deployment of safe, secure, and reliable intelligent systems. To learn more, visit Wind River at www.windriver.com.

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Jessica Miller
Global Corporate Communications