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September 23, 2011

Wind River Advances Network Acceleration Platform

By Rajani Baburajan, TMCnet Contributor


Wind River (News - Alert), a provider of embedded and mobile software, announced the latest release of its Wind River Network Acceleration Platform, its multi-core acceleration solution, with the addition of packet acceleration for higher-level protocols including Layer 4 transport protocols such as UDP (News - Alert) and TCP.


Network equipment providers are faced with the challenge of delivering high-performance network products that scale to meet the exploding traffic on 3G, 4G and wireline networks. Wind River Network Acceleration Platform leverages the benefits of multi-core technology to deliver ultrafast networking performance for network infrastructure equipment.

“Wind River Network Acceleration Platform allows project teams to spend their time developing high value, intelligent networking applications while easing migration to cutting-edge silicon,” said Mike Langlois, general manager of networking and telecommunications at Wind River, in a statement.

The solution enables greater performance with the addition of packet acceleration for higher-level protocols including Layer 4 transport protocols such as UDP and TCP. It expands hardware support for Freescale QorIQ and Intel (News - Alert) Xeon next-generation multi-core processors.  Optimized for multi-core silicon, the solution allows network performance to scale efficiently with the number of cores in a processor.

Wind River Network Acceleration Platform integrates complex components of multi-core software. The software helps customers cut development time and cost for high-performance networking systems. Wind River provides the necessary elements and expertise, in operating system, virtualization and networking technologies, to make high-performance systems work in a unified and smooth fashion, company officials said.

The network acceleration platform enhances the standard Linux networking stack to support high-performance network acceleration capabilities far exceeding what is possible using symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) mode alone. Its unique AMP approach enables packet acceleration that provides as much as 10 times the performance of standard Linux configurations.

The pre-integrated and highly optimized runtime platform offers Wind River Linux, the embedded industry’s most successful commercial embedded Linux distribution, as the control plane operating system.

The platform features an acceleration network protocol stack for the acceleration plane that uses dedicated processor cores to offload traffic from the main Linux stack, while the overall system behaves like a single networking stack.

Wind River Workbench works across all Wind River products to provide a consistent interface for monitoring and management, the company said.

In a related development Wind River announced the latest version of Wind River Test Management, a test automation system for monitoring, executing and managing embedded device software testing. It identifies high-risk segments in production code, enabling optimized testing that focuses just on changes between builds.


Rajani Baburajan is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To read more of Rajani's articles, please visit her columnist page.

Edited by Stefanie Mosca







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