Wind River Studio: Engineered for Open RAN Success Through Innovation and TCO Savings
Open RAN could save up to 30% in total cost of operations (TCO) if built with the components that Wind River® Studio provides. Studio has been proven in live deployments at scale. Its foundational components include a container-based distributed cloud platform and full-stack analytics, plus automation and orchestration.
Here is a sample of some of the unique and innovative features our customers rely on to keep down their TCO.
CPU Utilization and Hardware Footprint
Impact: TCO Savings: 4/4 Innovation: 4/4
Studio has the lowest resource requirement in the market, with only two physical cores needed for the control plane. Optimizations will enable Studio to run on a single core on 4th Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors.
Studio can also operate on a single all-in-one node that includes control, storage, and worker.
Benefits/areas of applicability:
- Efficient hardware server dimensioning
- Power savings
- RAN software optimization
Power Consumption Savings
Impact: TCO Savings: 3/4 Innovation: 3/4
Wind River is the only CaaS provider demonstrating the ability to reduce power consumption by up to 12%. (This demonstration was performed with O-RAN Alliance ecosystem members at the recent O-RAN PlugFest.)
Benefits/areas of applicability:
- Continuous verification of power savings initiatives for O-RAN deployment
- Ability to identify KPIs and the tools to measure
- Benchmark for comparison with other RAN and hardware vendors
Zero-Touch Deployment of Distributed Cloud
Impact: TCO Savings: 3/4 Innovation: 3/4
Wind River is the only CaaS provider that can zero-touch provision a whole distributed cloud using an integrated orchestration framework.
You can execute deployment of a distributed cloud from an orchestrator and deploy a system controller and subclouds with a single click.
Benefits/areas of applicability:
- OpEx reduction
- Time-to-market acceleration
- Minimized human error
Infrastructure Orchestration
Impact: TCO Savings: 3/4 Innovation: 4/4
Wind River supports the complete end-to-end lifecycle management of infrastructure (O-Cloud) and O-RAN services in a single solution.
Integration between Wind River Studio Conductor and the hardware manager is used to implement the correct hardware configuration (BIOS firmware).
Benefits/areas of applicability:
- OpEx reduction
- Time-to-market acceleration
- Minimized human error
Scalability with Zero Touch
Impact: TCO Savings: 3/4 Innovation: 3/4
With Studio you can dynamically scale out the infrastructure (adding worker nodes) with no impact on the existing service(s). Scale from an all-in-one single server (AIO-SX) to a distributed cloud.
Benefits/areas of applicability:
- Hardware server dimensioning
- Power savings
- RAN software optimization
Distributed Software Patches and Upgrades
Impact: TCO Savings: 3/4 Innovation: 2/4
Wind River is the only CaaS provider with the ability to execute patches and upgrades from a central location. Zero-touch operations are also possible.
Benefits/areas of applicability:
- OpEx reduction
- Time-to-market acceleration
- Minimized human error
Distributed Cloud Solution
Impact: TCO Savings: 1/4 Innovation: 3/4
Benefit from full cloud-native distributed cloud capabilities (not just distributed compute). And service is available even during any communication failure between the central site and cell site.
Benefits/areas of applicability:
- Hardware server dimensioning
- Power savings
- RAN software optimization
Ultra-Low Latency out of the Box
Impact: TCO Savings: 2/4 Innovation: 1/4
Studio gives you out-of-the-box (i.e., ready for use from Day 0) ultra-low latency without further need for customizations or development. The low-latency kernel satisfies O-RAN low-latency requirements.
Benefits/areas of applicability:
- Hardware server dimensioning
- RAN software optimization
Reliability and High Availability
Impact: TCO Savings: 3/4 Innovation: 1/4
Use the lowest number of servers required to implement a high-availability solution, due to efficient hardware utilization capabilities and unique hyper-converged cloud architecture. You can benefit from high availability with as few as two nodes.
Benefits/areas of applicability:
- Hardware server dimensioning
- Power savings
- RAN software optimization
PTP Configurations out of the Box
Impact: TCO Savings: 2/4 Innovation: 1/4
Precision Time Protocol capabilities are available out of the box (i.e., ready for use from Day 0) without further need for customization or development.
Benefits/areas of applicability:
- Hardware server dimensioning
- RAN software optimization
Contact us if you would like to see any of these features demonstrated in your lab.
