NEWS HIGHLIGHTS

• Wind River open source solutions help developers rapidly address IoT challenges to meet critical needs across a diverse range of markets.
• Wind River Linux profiles updated with the latest kernel and toolchain from the Yocto Project 1.7 release to enable even greater flexibility and scalability.
• Latest Wind River Linux solutions will be showcased at Embedded Linux Conference, March 23–25.

EMBEDDED LINUX CONFERENCE, SAN JOSE, Calif. – Mar. 23, 2015 – Wind River®, a world leader in delivering software for intelligent connected systems, has delivered enhancements to Wind River Open Virtualization, Security Profile for Wind River Linux, and Carrier Grade Profile for Wind River Linux. These profiles provide developers with key capabilities to create the safe, secure, and reliable intelligent systems that will harness the power of the Internet of Things (IoT).

Open Virtualization, Security Profile, and Carrier Grade Profile have been updated with the latest Linux kernel, toolchain, and user space from the Yocto Project 1.7 release. These software profiles are high-value add-ons to Wind River Linux, with features that seamlessly integrate with validation tools, documentation, and hardware support.

In IoT, a steady flow of intelligence and actionable insights can emerge only if connectivity is present and persistent. However, as a result of persistent connectivity, exposure to security threats increases. Additionally, if devices are not properly protected, the ability for persistent connectivity itself is threatened.

"The challenges around security and connectivity are becoming more complex with the growth of IoT. Developers must work on projects demanding higher levels of security and performance within tighter schedules and budgets. Our Linux profiles provide a jump-start to address these demands for intelligent, connected, and more secure devices for a range of IoT needs,” said Dinyar Dastoor, vice president and general manager of operating system platforms at Wind River. “In addition to the challenges that arise with deploying large IoT systems, companies also face the difficulties of maintaining many deployed devices over a long period of time, well after repeated updates to the Linux kernel and its packages. Wind River provides support for long lifecycles, including updates and security patches for new vulnerabilities.”

Built to align with the Common Criteria for Operating System Protection Profile and Evaluation Assurance Levels (EAL), Security Profile delivers security capabilities to help developers protect against future threats from the growth of IoT. As other industries, such as networking, industrial, and automotive, are increasingly asked to comply with similar Common Criteria requirements to evaluate and certify products that demand greater security and connectivity, developers are facing new challenges. Meeting these needs can be expensive and time-consuming, adding cost and risk to programs. Customers can reduce risks by relying on Wind River to deliver a fully maintained and securely monitored commercial embedded Linux distribution with built-in security features such as a hardened kernel, secure user space, and secure boot process.

Virtualization, a game-changing technology in the IT, networking, and communications industries, also offers the promise of system consolidation, reduced capital and operational expenses, and new cloud services ripe for IoT opportunities, to many other industries, from aerospace and defense to medical and automotive. Using open source Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) technology combined with the proven commercial Wind River Linux distribution, Open Virtualization delivers near-native hardware performance and enables many applications and functions running on dedicated operating systems and hardware to consolidate into one intelligent system, enabling highly scalable systems at lower cost.

As more devices become connected in the IoT age, they will require increased performance and zero downtime. For certain applications, such as critical infrastructure for energy or medical use cases, the network simply cannot go down, and carrier grade reliability is essential. Strict requirements to achieve these specifications are mandated by the Linux Foundation in the Carrier Grade Linux (CGL) specifications. Carrier Grade Profile meets the registration requirements of the Linux Foundation’s CGL 5.0 specification. This turnkey solution delivers all of the technologies essential to building a powerful, flexible, responsive, stable, and secure platform.

Wind River Linux delivers the flexibility and innovation that comes with open source technology, combined with the long term commercial support needed for the lifetime maintenance of a device. Wind River Linux can help developers significantly reduce production and maintenance costs and speed build cycles by more than 30 percent compared to roll-your-own (RYO) in-house efforts. To calculate the costs of building an RYO embedded Linux project versus the savings from using Wind River Linux, use the total cost of ownership (TCO) calculator at http://tinyurl.com/LxTCOcalc.

In addition to security and connectivity, flexibility and scalability are essential to an IoT infrastructure. The Yocto Project provides the technical flexibility to allow teams to scale one common runtime across a variety of IoT devices of virtually any size, industry, or architecture, all leveraging the same technical infrastructure for greater efficiencies and cost savings. Developed from the Yocto Project open source development infrastructure, Wind River Linux uses the latest Linux kernel as its upstream source to ensure customers have commercially supported access to the newest advancements from the open source community. With numerous key maintainer and technical lead positions within the Yocto Project and other open source projects, Wind River is an active leader in the open source community. To learn more about Wind River contributions, visithttp://tinyurl.com/LxLdrshp.

Wind River Linux and its software profiles are part of the Wind River Helix™ portfolio of products enabling IoT advancements. Wind River open source solutions will be showcased at Wind River booth 9 at Embedded Linux Conference 2015 in San Jose. For more information about the Wind River presence at the show, visit http://tinyurl.com/windELC.

Separately, Wind River also recently announced the addition of application and data services in the cloud to Wind River Linux via Wind River Edge Management System, its cloud-based IoT platform.

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 nearly 2 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.

Wind River is a trademark or registered trademark of Wind River Systems, Inc. and its affiliates. Other names may be the trademarks of their respective owners.

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NEWS HIGHLIGHTS

• Wind River COTS platform serves as key technology enabling DO-178C certification, alignment with FACE^™, and ease of portability.
• VxWorks 653 provides Northrop Grumman with upgradable platform aligned with the latest government initiatives to reduce program lifecycle costs.
• Platform is used in over 325 programs by more than 185 customers on over 70 aircraft.

ALAMEDA, Calif. – March 18, 2015 – Wind River^®, a world leader in delivering software for intelligent connected systems, has announced that Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) has selected Wind River VxWorks^® 653 Platform for its latest helicopter digitization avionics mission equipment package to be integrated onto the Black Hawk UH-60V helicopter.

Part of the Wind River product portfolio of safe and secure operating systems, VxWorks 653 is a commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) platform for supporting delivery of safety-critical, integrated modular avionics (IMA) applications. It provides Northrop Grumman with a DO-178C certifiable, upgradable platform that is aligned with the latest government initiatives to reduce program lifecycle costs.

Wind River recently released updates to VxWorks 653, including support for multi-core silicon and robust partitioning for applications that enable multilevel RTCA DO-178C certification, as well as support for the Safety Base Profile of Future Airborne Capability Environment (FACE™) 2.1 Technical Standard.

"Fully compliant with ARINC 653, VxWorks 653 provides customers with robust partitioning in time and space to facilitate fault containment—and enables reduced size, weight, and power, as well as a reduced bill of materials, on the industry’s most advanced aircraft," said Dinyar Dastoor, vice president and general manager of operating system platforms. "Wind River is proud to be a trusted technology supplier to Northrop Grumman for such an important program, and is very pleased to continue helping our customers drive innovation in their next-generation avionics platforms."

"By incorporating VxWorks 653 into our mission equipment package, we have achieved a system architecture that helps protect our customers’ long term investment for multiple platforms," said Ike Song, vice president, Situational Awareness Systems at Northrop Grumman Electronic Systems. "Our use of VxWorks 653 enables us to align with the FACE^™ Technical Standard, achieve DO-178C certification, and consolidate our avionics technology on multi-core hardware, resulting in superior performance and lower lifecycle costs."

For more than three decades, Wind River has been a trusted advisor in the development of safety- and mission-critical products. Used in over 325 programs by more than 185 customers on over 70 aircraft, VxWorks 653 serves as a key technology in a wide range of commercial, military, and space safety- and mission-critical programs, both manned and unmanned, around the globe.

More information about Wind River VxWorks 653 Platform is available at http://tinyurl.com/VxWorks653. To learn more about the company’s work in the aerospace and defense segments, visit http://tinyurl.com/WindAero.

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 nearly 2 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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Innovative Solution Comprising Intel Security and Wind River Technology Has Been Penetration Tested at Texas Tech University

WASHINGTON, D.C.—March 4, 2015 – Intel Security, a leading provider of comprehensive security solutions to local governments and energy sectors around the word, today announced a technology platform that could secure both legacy and new capabilities within the electric power grid. The new solution, Intel Security Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP), was developed in collaboration with the Department of Energy-funded Discovery Across Texas smart grid project including deployment at Texas Tech University, and is a joint project of Intel Security and Wind River.

Intel Security CIP works by separating the security management functions of the platform from the operational applications, allowing the operational layer to be robustly secured, monitored and managed. While sophisticated and extensive, the solution is also easy to use, cost-effective and can work for both new and legacy infrastructure. Intel Security CIP can be applied with little or no changes to business processes or application software, and can be retrofitted onto many existing systems.

Protecting the security of the power grid, which is critical to a nation's ability to function, has long been an Intel Security priority. In 2011 and 2010 the company sponsored two global studies on the security of the grid with the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), the number one ranked think tank in the U.S. for defense and national security by the Lauder Institute at the University of Pennsylvania. The most recent study, "In the Dark: Crucial Industries Confront Cyberattacks," found that of the 200 CIP executives surveyed globally, 32% had not adopted special security measures for smart grid controls. Yet 33% anticipated a major cybersecurity incident within 12 months. In short, the report concluded that the energy sector was not adequately prepared for cyberattacks.

"The risk of cyberattacks on critical infrastructure is no longer theoretical, but building security into the grid is challenging due to the amount of legacy infrastructure and the importance of availability of service," said Lorie Wigle, Vice President of Internet of Things Security Solutions for Intel Security. "Traditional security measures such as patching and rebooting are often inappropriate for the grid, so we set out to design something entirely different that could be non-invasive but simultaneously robust."

"From December 2013 to January 2015, the Intel Security CIP was in a field trial at Texas Tech University, where it performed as required by NIST standards and withstood penetration testing, as well as protected the synchrophasor applications during the Heartbleed vulnerability and Havex attacks," said Milton Holloway, President & COO, Center for the Commercialization of Electric Technologies. "This project was an outstanding example of a successful public-private partnership in that it produced technologies that are market-ready. What could be a better outcome of a demonstration project?”

Intel Security CIP provides a secure managed platform that includes fundamental protection building blocks such as device identity, malware protection, data protection and resiliency – all tailored to today's machine-to-machine environments. The technology also holds promise beyond the power grid and could be equally effective for departments of defense, the oil and gas industry and medical applications, among other uses.

The new Intel CIP technology will be demonstrated in Washington, D.C., today at an 8:00 a.m. discussion forum at the Phoenix Park Hotel including Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN); Dr. James Lewis, director and senior fellow, Strategic Technologies Program, CSIS; Vikram Budhraja, CEO of the Electric Power Group, and other industry experts.

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NEWS HIGHLIGHTS

• Wind River is a founding partner in China Mobile’s new OPNFV test lab.
• China Mobile and Wind River collaborate on the development of virtualized small cell gateway solution and a virtualized C-RAN solution.
• The jointly developed NFV solutions will be showcased at the China Mobile booth in Hall 3, Stand 3A10 at Mobile World Congress 2015.

MOBILE WORLD CONGRESS, BARCELONA, Spain — Mar. 2, 2015 — Wind River®, a world leader in delivering software for intelligent connected systems, and China Mobile have joined forces on multiple Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) projects. The collaboration includes a new NFV test lab as well as the development of virtualized small cell gateway and cloud radio access network (C-RAN) solutions. The combination of these efforts is designed to help the industry begin to roll out NFV deployments and reduce time-to-market and operating expenses (OPEX).

China Mobile has created a new test lab, based on the OPNFV open source project, focused on accelerating NFV through an integrated, open platform. The OPNFV lab provides a diverse hardware and software infrastructure for open standards-based testing and integration, including live network access. Wind River is one of the founding partners of the test lab. The lab is able to provide commercial grade NFV platforms, including Wind River Titanium Server software, to support open source development and testing. Offering a rich environment for the testing and evaluation of commercial NFV platforms, the lab provides a variety of participation opportunities for a diverse range of partners across the ecosystem.

In the showcase of its joint virtualized small cell gateway technology, China Mobile and Wind River have demonstrated the feasibility of creating high-performance, high-available data plane virtual network functions (VNFs) at a considerably lower cost and with greatly improved flexibility. As data traffic continues to grow at an exponential rate, small cell base stations are an increasingly attractive option to help expand network capacity.

The virtualized small cell gateway solution features the ASTRI Small Cell Gateway as a VNF on Wind River Titanium Server, running on the Intel® Xeon® processor. The ASTRI gateways are designed for offload signaling and mobility management to the mobile core network and were pre-validated and optimized for performance with Titanium Server, a carrier grade NFV infrastructure software solution that is designed to meet the stringent "always on" requirements of the telecom industry.

"The industry is adopting NFV models in order to quickly deploy new services and achieve greater operational cost savings. However, performance and system reliability cannot be sacrificed. It is essential to maintain carrier grade requirements," said Zhiqiang Yang, deputy general manager of China Mobile Research Institute. "By working with Wind River, we have made a meaningful step in this promising direction."

"Data traffic is pushing networks to their limits and operators are looking to deploy NFV technologies for flexible deployment of network applications and services. The complexities around NFV are multi-faceted, and in order to make real progress, it is essential to collaborate with industry leaders like China Mobile," said Charlie Ashton, senior director of business development for networking solutions at Wind River. "Wind River Titanium Server delivers carrier grade virtualization for NFV infrastructure, helping to enable service providers to gain new flexibility, scalability, and operational cost and energy benefits."

Additionally, China Mobile and Wind River have developed a C-RAN solution for NFV deployment. The joint solution delivers a live demonstration of a successful C-RAN that provides near-native hardware performance and live migration of L1 to L3, and that follows the requirements of the ETSI NFV Industry Standards Group. The solution will also be demonstrated at Mobile World Congress 2015, and features Wind River Titanium Server technologies running on an Intel Xeon processor-based server with a dedicated hardware accelerator.

"With Wind River's help, we successfully developed an industry-first virtualized C-RAN base station baseband processing unit (BBU) pool prototype that supports dynamic full carrier live migration while satisfying the stringent real-time requirement of a complete LTE protocol stack," said Dr. Chih-Lin I, chief scientist at China Mobile Research Institute.

By using Titanium Server as their NFV infrastructure platform, customers may enjoy both the rapid service deployment of enterprise networks coupled with the carrier grade uptime and reliability typically mandated by telecom networks. Based on technologies using open standards including carrier grade Wind River Linux, real-time Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM), carrier grade plugins for OpenStack®, Data Plane Development Kit, and accelerated vSwitch technologies, and optimized for Intel architecture, Titanium Server brings together high performance and carrier grade reliability.

Both the virtualized small cell gateway and the C-RAN demonstration will be showcased at the China Mobile booth in Hall 3, Stand 3A10 at Mobile World Congress 2015. Separately, additional NFV technologies will be on display at the Wind River booth in Hall 7, Stand 7J65. For more information about Wind River at Mobile World Congress, visit http://www.windriver.com/events/mwc-2015.

To learn more about how Wind River is addressing the opportunities and challenges created by NFV and the transformation of the network into the backbone for Internet of Things (IoT) connectivity, visit http://www.windriver.com/solutions/industries/networking/. Titanium Server is part of the Wind River Helix™ portfolio of products enabling IoT advancements.

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 nearly 2 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.

Wind River is a trademark or registered trademark of Wind River Systems, Inc. and its affiliates. Intel and Intel Xeon are trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U.S. and/or other countries. Other names may be the trademarks of their respective owners.

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Virtual C-RAN solution uses Intel® technology for greater levels of network performance

MOBILE WORLD CONGRESS, BARCELONA, Spain — Mar. 2, 2015 — Altiostar and Wind River® have developed a highly scalable Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) cloud radio access network (C-RAN) solution that allows mobile operators to deliver superior quality of experience with major cost savings, while reaping the benefits of an IT cloud service delivery model.

A technical breakthrough for the NFV C-RAN market, the Altiostar C-RAN solution can be deployed using readily available standard Ethernet transport and does not require expensive and hard-to-deploy dark fiber or wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) in the last mile. The solution allows operators to build high-density clusters, resulting in considerably improved network performance and reduced capital expenditure and operating expenses.

"Current C-RAN architecture requires expensive and hard-to-deploy dark fiber or WDM in the last mile to carry CPRI frames. Additionally, exploding data consumption is creating tremendous network capacity shortfall. Carriers are eager to find disruptive solutions to address these challenges," said Ashraf M. Dahod, president and CEO of Altiostar. "The Altiostar solution uses standard Ethernet-based fronthaul to build the cloud RAN. By working with industry leaders like Wind River and using Intel technology, we were able to get to market faster with an NFV C-RAN solution that enables the rapid introduction of new services and capacity, while driving down the total cost of ownership."

As networks move to NFV, to properly handle traffic growth while improving quality of experience, it will be important to deploy a C-RAN with intelligent software-intensive eNodeBs that are capable of supporting LTE-Advanced features and provide scalable, on-demand compute, memory, and I/O bandwidth. Altiostar’s C-RAN solution includes intelligent macro and micro cellular eNodeBs. The Altiostar solution utilizes the NFV-enabling Wind River Titanium Server software platform for its software-intensive intelligent eNodeB. It runs on the Intel® Xeon® processor, which gives it the high performance needed for hyperscale workloads while minimizing the footprint.

"In order for the telecom industry to successfully achieve NFV, the delivery of virtualized services at carrier grade levels of performance and reliability is absolutely critical," said Paul Senyshyn, vice president and general manager of networking solutions at Wind River. "Wind River Titanium Server delivers an NFV infrastructure that gives Altiostar's solution the carrier grade virtualization required to allow service providers to easily and quickly achieve goals such as reducing costs while introducing new high-value services through NFV."

"The unrelenting pace of mobile data traffic growth combined with the rise of the Internet of Things are driving the requirement for high-performance compute density deeper into the networks," said Steve Price, general manager of the Communications Infrastructure Division at Intel. "Using the Intel® Xeon® processor and Wind River Titanium Server software platform provides Altiostar with the performance needed to deliver a robust NFV C-RAN solution."

Wind River Titanium Server is a carrier grade NFV infrastructure software solution that is designed to meet the stringent "always on" requirements of the telecom industry. By using Titanium Server as an NFV infrastructure software foundation, the telecom industry may enjoy the best of both worlds: the rapid service deployment typically found in enterprise networks with the carrier grade uptime and reliability mandated by telecom networks. Based on technologies using open standards, including carrier grade Wind River Linux, real-time Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM), carrier grade plugins for OpenStack®, Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK), and accelerated vSwitch technologies, and optimized for Intel® architecture, Titanium Server brings together high performance and carrier grade reliability.

The NFV C-RAN solution demonstration will be showcased at the Altiostar Executive Meeting Room in Hall 8.1, Room CC8.7 at Mobile World Congress 2015. Additional demonstrations of Titanium Server will be located at the Wind River booth in Hall 7, Stand 7J65.

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 nearly 2 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.

Wind River is a trademark or registered trademark of Wind River Systems, Inc. and its affiliates. Intel and Intel Xeon are trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U.S. and/or other countries. Other names may be the trademarks of their respective owners.

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