Wind River 'Tames' Complexity in Network Equipment

Wind River announced that it has integrated support for HP BladeSystem carrier-grade and enterprise server blades, into its industry-leading Carrier Grade Linux, referred to as CGL, operating system, tools and build system.

 

CGL 4.0 solution supported on HP ProLiant server blades allows customers to standardize on one common carrier grade operating system platform, enabling high reliable networks to be built across many platforms.

 

P re-configured system profiles make it easy to jump-start device-specific development and allow device manufacturers to bring their products to market easier, faster, and more cost-effectively than ever before.

 

Wind River (News - Alert) is currently the only embedded Linux provider offering this fully integrated solution for this class of enterprise server.

 

According to Paul Anderson, vice president, marketing and strategy, Linux Products, Wind River, since the company was specifically designed for carrier grade deployment, the entire telecom environments stood to gain in terms of reliability and performance, simultaneously giving customers the variety and flexibility they needed to build good products.

 

Further integration of Intel (News - Alert) Xeon processor with CGL and HP Blade system server blades, allows customers to leverage investment applications and tools across all networking devices. The downtime for carrier grade is just four minutes annually, which would imply 99.999 per cent availability.

 

Customers are able to focus resources on product differentiation and revenue impacting activities, rather than spending time and effort on open source integration and maintenance, only when they have a development ready platform. Wind River Linux 3.0, provides a set of pre-configured system profiles

for vertical industries including networking, and industrial market systems.

 

Wind River, a wholly owned subsidiary of Intel Corporation, is a global figure in embedded and mobile software. Wind River has been pioneering computing inside embedded devices since 1981 and its technology is found in more than 500 million products.

 

In keeping with its integrated profile, Wind River has taken a different approach to helping clients succeed. Based on the Eclipse platform, Wind River Workbench is a collection of tools that accelerates time-to-market for developers building devices with VxWorks and Wind River Linux.