Wind River Advanced Networking Technologies

Wind River Advanced Networking Technologies provides advanced networking and network management capabilities that span from core networking, security, wireless, and mobility for a variety of devices such as wireless infrastructure, network infrastructure, consumer devices, and industrial automation and control. The Wind River Advanced Networking stack is specifically designed and implemented for use in embedded real-time systems and can be configured for a minimum memory footprint. Wind River Advanced Networking Technologies is available for both Wind River VxWorks and Wind River Linux platforms, providing developers with the flexibility to build application software that can move easily from project to project, regardless of the underlying operating systems. This flexibility maximizes developer efficiency, saves time, and reduces cost by enabling the reuse of intellectual property. Wind River Advanced Networking Technology is designed to meet the diverse needs of the device optimization software industry. One or more of the following apply: A stack that was originally designed for embeded devices Common networking for VxWorks and Linux Common APIs for easy application development Broad protocol support for emerging regulatory requirements (e.g. IPv6, IKE etc) Cater to next generation networking needs (e.g. LTE, WiMAX, etc.)

Features
Key features and functionality include the following:

VxWorks RTOS: The industry's leading embedded operating system is ideally suited for devices requiring a proven, highly scalable, hard real-time, deterministic run-time environment. The platform includes full 64-bit processing support, comprehensive multicore support (both AMP and SMP), and a networking stack that features Wind River Advanced Networking Technologies, enhanced memory protection, error management, and POSIX compliance. The latest edition is also backward-compatible with earlier versions of VxWorks, allowing customers to leverage existing and legacy software assets.

Wind River Workbench: An integrated development suite based on the Eclipse framework, Workbench provides deep capabilities that support the entire development life cycle, from hardware bring-up to platform and application development, and enables standardization on one common development suite across the enterprise. Workbench is extensible and scalable, allowing developers to meet specific project needs, and it can seamlessly integrate hundreds of third-party plug-ins. Extensive partner technologies: To ensure integrated technologies, Wind River has established the industry's widest-ranging partner ecosystem, joining forces with leading hardware and software providers to address such technologies as advanced file systems, level 2 and 3 networking protocols, advanced graphics, reference designs, and board support packages (BSPs). Networking, wireless, and security support: The platform integrates Wind River Advanced Networking Technologies, an extensive portfolio of networking and security protocols to protect network data. This portfolio provides implementations of IPsec and IKE, firewall and NAT, RADIUS client, 802.11i wireless security, Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), and digital certificates. It also provides support for wireless and mobility applications. These protocols can be used in any combination to provide secure applications that require access control, authentication, or privacy.

Benefits
Multiple-platform support

Identical middleware software independent of RTOS Ability to standardize on common middleware

Intellectual property

No open source software (except cryptographic algorithms from OpenSSL) Implemented as a linkable kernel module Not a Linux derivative; developed for multiple operating systems

Multicore support

Networking stack optimized to run in multicore environment; utilizes hardware capabilities of Cavium OCTEON 58xx and 38xx

Mature product line/technology

Worldwide installed base Optimization for embedded environments

Comprehensive portfolio of technologies

IPv6/v4, security, wireless, mobility, network management, application protocols, etc. Support for Next Generation Networking (4G, pre-4G, including LTE, WiMAX) Completely based on standard RFCs and IETF drafts Strong partner ecosystem for market solutions

Powerful network debug utilities Comprehensive network test, interoperability, and certifications

Products
VxWorks Wind River Advanced Networking Technologies is integrated into Wind River VxWorks platforms 3.5 (VxWorks 6.5) as well as later versions. Individual Add-ons for VxWorks Platforms Wind River Advanced Networking Technologies 6.5 is available as individual add-ons for the following VxWorks versions prior to 6.5:

VxWorks 6.06.4 VxWorks 5.5.1

Wind River Linux Wind River Advanced Networking Technologies is packaged as a single product for Wind River Linux. All available modules are included in the Advanced Networking Technologies for Linux package.

Business Problems
Need massive capacity scalability for Networking products Need to drive TCO down substantially (both Opex and Capex) Need shorter development cycles, faster time-to-market Deliver more value to customers

Solution
Multi-Core acceleration solutions for superior product performance Consolidate products and cards into much smaller footprint with much greater price/power/performance using Multi-Core solutions Use pre-optimized skink wrapped acceleration solutions (S/W and/or H/W)

 Extendable to add your own secret sauce differentiators

Wind River Multi-Core Networking Technologies (MNT)

A set of packet processing features that makes use of data-plane cores Fast forwarding o IPv4/IPv6 packet forwarding Other features in development: o IPsec o Regular Expression Pattern Matching o VLAN switching o Link Aggregation o Layer 4 (UDP/TCP/SCTP) o Tunneling

Education Services for Networking and Telecom Equipment

The networking and telecom industries are going through a rapid technical evolution to support next-generation 3G, 3.5G, and 4G infrastructures as well as advanced wireline and enterprise applications. This evolution is a disruption to existing hardware and software assets, development processes, design methodology, and project schedules. Can you afford a lengthy trial-and-error cycle before your differentiating features get to market? Are your engineers ready to take advantage of the performance and consolidation benefits that multi-core can offer? Are you confident you know the integration issues with your off-the-shelf technologies? Wind River Education Services can provide the training and mentoring to make your engineers productive and confident using their Wind River tools. Our professionally designed courses provide in-depth guidance and hands-on practice for the challenges faced by designers of embedded networking and telecom equipment. With mentoring from our experienced engineering specialists, your engineers can immediately apply their knowledge within your processes, systems, and environment.

Mentoring for Rapid Integration

Given enough time, your engineers could figure out the best way to leverage new technologies and integrate them into your current systems. But if you want a faster start and expert guidance, Wind River Mentoring is an excellent option. One of our expert engineering specialists will consider the unique challenges of your project and your environment and provide highly targeted guidance and coaching. Your team gains the advantages of quicker evaluation of their options, fewer false starts, and higher productivity. And we'll assist you with specific issues:

Integration and best practices when including open source RFC code RFC compliance of products that include middleware packages to achieve requirements Techniques for performance-tuning the network stack Interoperability with network equipment from other suppliers Legacy code integration and rapid configuration of network components for interoperability with other de facto implementations Pv6 integration, deployment, and logo validation Network security policy deployment guidance Quality of service and traffic-shaping techniques Network performance optimization

Leading-Edge Courses
Now more than ever, project teams need all the advantages they can get. Wind River Education Services provides in-depth training on the most relevant and hottest technologies to hit the networking and telecom industries today. Give your team the edge to beat the competition. Find out more about our courses that can accelerate your team past the steepest part of the learning curve for networking and telecom issues:

Multi-core Technologies and Designing for Concurrency Introduction to Linux Wind River Linux 3.0 and Workbench Fundamentals Linux Fast Boot Linux Device Drivers Wind River Hypervisor Fundamentals Wind River Embedded Networking Fundamentals VxWorks 6.x Symmetric Multiprocessing VxWorks 6.x Asymmetric Multiprocessing Test Management 3.x