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News Release from: Wind River Systems | Subject: Wind River Advanced Networking Technologies
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 14 June 2007
Platform packages networking
technologies
It's a bold claim, but Wind River describes its latest offering as the device software optimisation (DSO) industry's most comprehensive advanced networking technology portfolio.
Leveraging technology from the company's March 2006 acquisition of privately held Interpeak, Wind River Advanced Networking Technologies integrate functionality - including mobility, security, wireless and advanced IP networking capabilities - into both VxWorks and Wind River Linux platforms This product portfolio enables the industry's most full-featured, reliable, high-performing, scalable and configurable platforms
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 23 Oct 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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"Equipment manufacturers can now meet the ever-expanding connectivity requirements, regardless of the underlying operating system".
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"When Airspan Networks wanted to build a next-generation wireless WiMAX subscriber station, it found that Wind River was the only DSO vendor that could provide all of the necessary development components: real-time operating system, device management, high performance router stack and advanced networking technologies", says Paul Senior, Chief Technical Officer at Airspan Networks.
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"Wind River's high performance networking software technologies are a great complement to the powerful Octeon multicore MIPS64 processor solutions for next generation intelligent networking systems", says Rajiv Khemani, Vice President of Marketing and Sales at Cavium Networks.
"The combination of Wind River's operating systems, software and tools with our broad line of software compatible Octeon processors creates an ideal environment for developers to take full advantage of the advanced security and application hardware acceleration capabilities required for today's network elements".
"The communications industry and other vertical market segments building next generation networking equipment are just starting to realise the tremendous development efficiencies and time to market benefits of COTS hardware and software solutions", says Mike Langlois, President at Langloisgroup.
"Commercially available, standards-based components like Wind River Advanced Networking Technologies will contribute to the acceleration of the adoption of COTS-based solutions in networking infrastructures".
Wind River Advanced Networking Technologies are available for both VxWorks and Wind River Linux platforms.
This allows developers to build application software that can easily move from project to project regardless of the underlying operating systems or hardware.
This flexibility maximises developer efficiencies and enables the re-use of valuable intellectual property.
For VxWorks, Wind River Advanced Networking Technologies are integrated into the now-available VxWorks 6.5 platforms.
Components are available as addons (stand-alone products) for all previous versions of VxWorks 6.x.
For Wind River Linux, all validated components are available as a single add-on bundle for the newly available Wind River Linux Edition 1.5 platforms, as well as for all the previously released Wind River Linux Edition platforms.
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