Wind River expands its ecosystem for NFV deployment

As the Titanium Cloud programme expands, current members also continue to introduce new NFV solutions validated on the Wind River Titanium Server NFV infrastructure platform. As an example, the ASTRI has introduced an LTE Small Cell Gateway and Security Gateway as Virtual Network Functions (VNFs) optimised for Titanium Server.

Through the Titanium Cloud programme, partners validate and pre-integrate their hardware and software offerings with Wind River Titanium Server and deliver solutions ready for deployment in live NFV networks. Complementing the Wind River Titanium Server NFV infrastructure software, partners provide solutions at all other levels of the overall end-to-end architecture: OSS/BSS, orchestration, VNFs and hardware server platforms.

Titanium Server is a carrier grade NFV infrastructure software solution that is designed to meet the ‘always on’ requirements of the telecomm industry. Titanium Server is based on open software standards including carrier grade Wind River Linux, real-time Kernel-based Virtual Machine, carrier grade-enhancements to OpenStack, Data Plane Development Kit and accelerated virtual switching, all optimised for Intel architecture platforms.

“In order to accelerate their NFV deployment and reduce schedule risk, service providers are looking for validated, market-ready end-to-end NFV solutions,” said Charlie Ashton, Senior Director, Business Development, Networking Solutions, Wind River. “Our ecosystem is expanding rapidly, and with the addition of new members we continue to deliver the availability of optimised, interoperable solutions for service providers and telecomm equipment manufacturers. In collaboration with our ecosystem partners, we are addressing several of the industry’s toughest NFV challenges, such as management and orchestration, security and testing.”

"In NFV and the cloud alike, the software platform is the critical bridge between an exploding mix of features and applications and a pool of servers to host them. Platform software accelerates performance, improves resilience and above all creates a consistent framework for deployment and operations that builds economy of scale,” commented Tom Nolle, President, Founder and Principal Analyst, CIMI. “Wind River's Titanium Cloud ecosystem is the number one example of platform software for NFV and the cloud, and every new member both proves the value of the ecosystem and extends that value by adding integrated, critical platform features. The Titanium Cloud ecosystem is becoming the universal constant of NFV."

Wind River will be demonstrating its NFV solutions at Mobile World Congress 2015 in hall 7, stand 7J65.