Wind River Partners with Kontron to Develop Linux Based Industry Standard Telecom Solutions

Kontron Joins Wind River To Help Drive Carrier Grade Linux Standardization on ATCA, AMC and MicroTCA Platforms

Wind River, the global leader in Device Software Optimization (DSO), today announced that Kontron, one of the world's largest suppliers of embedded computer technology, has joined Wind River's partner program as a strategic partner and will bundle Wind River's Carrier-Grade Linux with Kontron's next generation of Advanced Telecom Computing Architecture (ATCA), MicroTCA and Advanced Mezzanine Card (AMC) platforms. The integrated Wind River and Kontron solutions create a complete COTS-based platform built on highly available, standards-based platforms for ATCA. Using COTS hardware and software enables application developers to simplify the overall product development effort and speed time-to-market of next-generation telecommunications equipment solutions.

Based on the Carrier Grade Linux specification from Open Source Development Labs, Wind River Platform for Network Equipment, Linux Edition, supports many of the industry's most popular telecommunications boards, making it an ideal fit for the telecommunications and high-end data networking markets. Platform for Network Equipment is a fully standards-based platform with support for key APIs such as the Hardware Platform Interface (HPI) specification from Service Availability Forum and the Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI). The result is a fully integrated and optimized support for the PICMG 3.x ATCA.

Platform for Network Equipment includes a standards-based interprocess communication (IPC) mechanism that connects the Linux and VxWorks editions of the platform. This capability is an especially viable configuration for many ATCA solutions that require both a true RTOS for data-plane communications and a Linux based solution for management and control. Only Wind River can offer a complete supported solution from a single vendor for all software required on ATCA platforms. This tested and validated Linux platform is supported and maintained by Wind River.

Availability

Wind River Linux will be available on Kontron's AT8001 ATCA processor board, AM4001 AMC module and AT8020 ATCA processor board.

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Wind River is the global leader in device software optimization (DSO). Wind River enables companies to develop and run device software faster, better, at lower cost and more reliably. Wind River platforms are pre-integrated, fully standardized enterprise-wide development solutions. They reduce effort, cost and risk and optimize quality and reliability at all phases of the device software development process from concept to deployed product.

Founded in 1981, Wind River is headquartered in Alameda, California, with operations worldwide.

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