Wind River Systems has announced that its Wind River
Platform for Network Equipment, Linux Edition, will be optimised to
support the Sun’s UltraSPARC T1 processor.
Based on a CGL distribution, Wind River Platform for Network
Equipment, Linux Edition, integrates with many popular
telecommunications boards. It supports the PICMG 3.x ATCA
specification and various high-availability functions, and includes
a standards-based interprocess communication (IPC) mechanism that
connects the Linux and VxWorks editions of the platform.
Wind River believes the combination of its run-time platform on
an open source, 64-bit, multi-threaded
architecture will offer “significantly increased performance
throughput for high-end ATCA applications”, as well as higher
service availability, faster time-to-market, reduced development
costs and lower total cost of operations.
Raju Penumatcha, vice-president of Netra Systems and Networking
at Sun Microsystems, said Wind River is “recognised for its rich
development environment and reliability at the heart of
telecommunications networks. Combining these attributes with the
unmatched scalability of the Sun OpenSPARC architecture enables a
Linux platform that is ready for the next build out of converged
networks.”
Meanwhile, John Bruggeman, chief marketing officer, Wind River,
said that the Sun UltraSPARC T1 processor “delivers
industry-leading performance and multi-threading features that
enable a whole new class of high-end, high-value solutions for
markets such as ATCA”.
Support for the next generation OpenSPARC processor will be
available in the second half of 2007.