NEWS HIGHLIGHTS

• Virtualization Profile for VxWorks integrates real-time embedded, Type 1 hypervisor into the core of the real-time operating system.
• Wind River real-time virtualization offering update includes storage virtualization capabilities, enhanced security capabilities, and expanded processor support.
• VxWorks continues to help customers develop scalable, future-proof, safer, and more secure operating environments for connected devices in the IoT.

ALAMEDA, Calif. – July 28, 2015 – Wind River®, a global leader in delivering software for the Internet of Things (IoT), has announced a major update to its real-time virtualization offering that allows customers to further reduce cost and innovate connected devices. The update includes storage virtualization capabilities, enhanced security capabilities, and expanded processor support.

Virtualization Profile for VxWorks® is based on Wind River virtualization technology and extends the scalability capabilities of VxWorks by integrating a real-time embedded, Type 1 hypervisor into the core of the real-time operating system (RTOS). Through embedded virtualization, it allows VxWorks customers to consolidate multiple disparate workloads on a single processor. Critical in today's era of IoT, it helps to address the need for robust, safer and more secure partitioning across all market segments.

“Virtualization is a key attribute in GE’s global vision for industrial control systems in the era of the Industrial Internet. It allows the GE businesses to combine their real-time control logic, HMI, security, and cloud connectivity into a single platform,” said Wes Skeffington, principal engineer at GE. “Wind River’s virtualization offering provides the right attributes like scalability, storage virtualization, real-time behavior, virtual machine isolation, and security capabilities to realize this vision.”

Updates to Virtualization Profile for VxWorks include the following:

• Storage virtualization through VirtIO allows devices to share a single storage controller, even a single disk, such as a Serial ATA device between multiple virtual machines (VMs), thereby dramatically reducing cost and complexity for consolidated systems. The run-time configuration, combined with support for the VirtIO device virtualization framework makes the virtualization profile a flexible and highly customizable virtualization layer for embedded devices.

• Enhanced security capabilities include seamless integration with the Security Profile for VxWorks. These capabilities help customers to guard security from power-on all the way through VM load and beyond with secure boot, secure load, and data encryption during transmission and after shutdown.

• Expanded support for Intel® Atom™ and Celeron™ processors, providing even greater choices for customers to build product lines that scale from low end controllers to major gateways and high performance compute and display stations.

“Embedded virtualization allows customers to meet the challenges of the IoT era; it enables a future-proof architecture that can adapt and evolve to meet changing market requirements, customer needs, and technology advancements,” said Dinyar Dastoor, vice president and general manager of operating system platforms at Wind River. “With these latest virtualization and security capability enhancements, Wind River has further strengthened VxWorks as the leading RTOS for IoT where connectivity, scalability and the ability to develop safer and more secure environments are paramount.”

The Virtualization Profile for VxWorks is an integral part of the Intel Industrial Solutions System Consolidation Series, a production-ready, virtualization software stack used for running an assortment of industrial and IoT workloads on a single platform.

More information about Virtualization Profile for VxWorks is available at http://tinyurl.com/VxWorksVirtualization. And to learn more about how Wind River is addressing the opportunities and challenges of IoT, visit http://tinyurl.com/WindHelix.

About Wind River

Wind River, a wholly owned subsidiary of Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC), is a global leader in delivering software for the Internet of Things. The company has been pioneering computing inside embedded devices since 1981, and its technology is found in more than 2 billion products. Wind River offers a comprehensive portfolio of solutions for addressing the system-level challenges and opportunities of IoT that is backed by world-class global professional services, award-winning customer support, and a broad partner ecosystem. Wind River delivers the software and expertise that enables the innovation and deployment of safe, secure, and reliable intelligent systems. To learn more, visit www.windriver.com.

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ALAMEDA, Calif. – July 20, 2015 –Wind River^®, a global leader in delivering software for the Internet of Things (IoT), has announced that it will participate in a proof-of-concept (PoC) led by KDDI R&D Laboratories Inc. for automated operation for Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) test beds.

 

The PoC will utilize Wind River Titanium Server as its foundation for demonstrating the deployment of virtual network function. Titanium Server is a carrier grade NFV infrastructure software solution that meets the stringent requirements of the telecom industry.

 

During the latest PoC earlier this year, using virtualization technologies, KDDI R&D Labs successfully demonstrated full automation of the operational flow for not only mobile equipment but also fixed-line facilities. For example, the demonstration includes management control systems that can automatically and immediately perform failure recovery for defects in software-based functions or virtualized platforms.

 

“KDDI R&D Labs is working towards SDN and NFV advancements to enable flexible response to service requirements, improve operational quality and efficiencies, and promote initiatives that will help realize the next generation of mobile infrastructure,” said Dr. Eng. Itsuro Morita, Executive Director, Core Network Division at KDDI R&D Labs. “We expect Wind River Titanium Server will help to drive future PoC and standardization activities to enable advanced operations for the SDN/NFV era.”

 

“Delivering virtualized services at carrier grade levels of reliability and performance is essential as the industry is transitioning to NFV infrastructures,” said Paul Senyshyn, vice president and general manager of networking solutions at Wind River. "Wind River Titanium Server provides a NFV infrastructure that delivers the carrier grade reliability that meets strict telecom requirements and enables service providers to more easily and quickly find NFV success."

 

By using Titanium Server as an NFV infrastructure software foundation, the telecom industry enjoys the best of both worlds: the rapid service deployment typically found in enterprise networks as well as 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.

 

Additionally, the Wind River Titanium Cloud partner program provides an ecosystem of optimized, interoperable standard solutions based on Titanium Server to accelerate time-to-market for service providers and telecom equipment manufacturers (TEMs) deploying NFV infrastructure.

 

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 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 global leader in delivering software for the Internet of Things. The company has been pioneering computing inside embedded devices since 1981, and its technology is found in more than 2 billion products. Wind River offers a comprehensive portfolio of solutions for addressing the system-level challenges and opportunities of IoT that is backed by world-class global professional services, award-winning customer support, and a broad partner ecosystem. Wind River delivers the software and expertise that enables the innovation and deployment of safe, secure, and reliable intelligent systems.To learn more, visit www.windriver.com.

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NEWS HIGHLIGHTS

• Wind River Titanium Server carrier grade telecom infrastructure software has been validated on Nokia AirFrame Data Center Solution
• Nokia AirFrame delivers unique cloud-based capabilities for virtualized, low-latency and high-throughput telecom applications
• Titanium Server provides the reliability and performance that enables NFV infrastructure to meet telecom service provider requirements

 

ALAMEDA, Calif. – July 14, 2015 – Wind River®, a global leader in network virtualization software, has announced that Wind River Titanium Server has been validated as an NFV Infrastructure (NFVI) software running on Nokia’s recently-announced AirFrame Data Center Solution portfolio.

The AirFrame Data Center Solution leverages cloud technologies to deliver low latency and high throughput for virtual telecom network functions, combining centralized and distributed architectures for maximum efficiency and capabilities. With native support for the full range of Nokia Virtual Network Functions (VNFs), AirFrame enables flexible and innovative data centers to be deployed at strategic, optimum locations. Thanks to AirFrame, telecom service providers realize the full promise of Network Functions Virtualization (NFV), with use cases such as the relocation of radios from the field to data centers by using virtualized radio clouds, reducing operating expenses (OPEX) and accelerating the delivery of new services.

Wind River Titanium Server enables NFV platforms to deliver the carrier grade reliability required for telecom infrastructure. At the same time, it provides best-in-class Virtual Machine (VM) density for VNFs, maximizing the OPEX savings achieved by service providers.

“With Nokia AirFrame Data Center Solution, we’re continuing to advance the capability of commercially-deployed NFV and telco clouds,” said Henri Tervonen, vice president of architecture at Nokia Networks.

“We are delighted to have completed the validation of Titanium Server on Nokia’s AirFrame solution,” said Jim Douglas, senior vice president of product at Wind River. "Nokia Networks has been a valued Wind River customer for many years."

To learn more about how Wind River is addressing the opportunities and challenges created by NFV, visit http://www.windriver.com/solutions/industries/networking/. Through the Wind River Titanium Cloud program, Wind River provides an ecosystem that ensures the availability of optimized, interoperable solutions that accelerate time-to-market for service providers and telecom equipment manufacturers (TEMs) deploying NFV infrastructure. 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 global leader in delivering software for the Internet of Things. The company has been pioneering computing inside embedded devices since 1981, and its technology is found in more than 2 billion products. Wind River offers a comprehensive portfolio of solutions for addressing the system-level challenges and opportunities of IoT that is backed by world-class global professional services, award-winning customer support, and a broad partner ecosystem. Wind River delivers the software 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

• Revolutionary DCN multimedia Conferencing Device from Bosch is based on Android software optimized and adapted by Wind River.
• DCN multimedia system from Bosch includes enhanced connectivity features and superior levels of interoperability, flexibility and reliability.
• Wind River provided Android integration expertise that allowed development teams to stay focused on developing differentiating features and accelerate time to market.

ALAMEDA, Calif. – July 7, 2015 – Wind River®, a global leader in delivering software for the Internet of Things (IoT), announced that Bosch Security Systems B. V. is using Android expertise from Wind River for the development of their next generation DCN multimedia Conference System.

Bosch Security Systems has released the DCN multimedia Conference System which utilizes OMNEO, an IP-based media networking architecture and includes user-friendly touch-screen Multimedia Devices. Wind River provided an optimized Android software platform and comprehensive software integration services, helping Bosch to concentrate on delivering innovative features and shortening time-to-market. For more than 125 years, the Bosch name has been synonymous with innovation, quality and reliability. Building on world-class expertise, Bosch Security Systems has led the conference market for over 60 years.

Appropriate for city councils, regional councils and boardrooms, the DCN multimedia Conference System includes conference features such as the integration of audio, video and meeting content with Internet access in one single system for enhanced participation and presentation effectiveness. The DCN multimedia Conference System is a highly interoperable, flexible and reliable platform that delivers greater connectivity and multimedia capabilities. For example, during the conference, documents and presentations can be retrieved, shared and displayed using the Internet-enabled Multimedia Devices equipped with high-resolution capacitive touchscreens. Based on open standards, the DCN multimedia Conference System allows the use of custom-made or third-party apps to enhance the meeting experience even further. In total, these features provide the system with a high level of scalability to grow as customers’ requirements evolve.

“Growing competitive pressures and software complexity often make it difficult for companies to meet tight time-to-market windows with the key features and quality levels demanded by their customers.” said Amit Ronen, senior vice president of product delivery and services at Wind River. “Bosch Security Systems turned to Wind River for its deep embedded software expertise and proven track record of successful Android projects since 2007. Additionally, our development centers located around the world allow us to offer highly competitive offerings and outstanding local support across the globe.”

“Bosch has chosen Wind River for its extensive Android expertise. Together Bosch and Windriver have overcome very tough Android design challenges and delivered a high performance Android multimedia Conference Device,” said Bao Trinh, R&D Manager of the Communications Systems Business Unit at Bosch Security Systems B. V. “The services team at Wind River were a trusted partner at every step, helping our organization remain focused on our core competencies and deliver a secure and market-leading conferencing unit.”

For more than 30 years, Wind River has offered among the industry’s most comprehensive embedded software portfolios as well as development and education services designed to help customers attain a competitive advantage. As a CMMI Level 3–rated organization, Wind River can help companies bring safe, secure and reliable intelligent systems to market, delivering professional services across the entire range of the planning, development, and management process.

To find out how Wind River can help in the design of next generation connected intelligent systems, please visit http://www.windriver.com/ip-services/expertise/#android. For more information about how the entire Wind River Helix™ portfolio of products enable IoT advancements, visit http://tinyurl.com/WindHelix.

About Wind River

Wind River, a wholly owned subsidiary of Intel® Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC), is a global leader in delivering software for the Internet of Things. The company has been pioneering computing inside embedded devices since 1981, and its technology is found in more than 2 billion products. Wind River offers a comprehensive portfolio of solutions for addressing the system-level challenges and opportunities of IoT that is backed by world-class global professional services, award-winning customer support, and a broad partner ecosystem. Wind River delivers the software 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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