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NI Alliance Award

Wind River Wins NI Alliance Award


Wind River® Intelligent Network Platform won the award for Best Vendor Product or Solution based on Network Intelligence from the Network Intelligence Alliance (NI Alliance) at their awards gala during Mobile World Congress 2014. The awards from the NI Alliance, an industry organization created for collaboration among the network economy's technology providers, recognize and honor telecom operators and suppliers that have successfully used network intelligence technology to develop and deploy innovative services and products.

 

 

FEATURED

Wind River made two major product announcements in the first quarter of 2014:

Wind River Reinvents the Real-Time Operating System

VxWorks® 7, a major new release of the world's most widely deployed real-time operating system (RTOS), was introduced at Embedded World last month. VxWorks has been re-architected into a modular and scalable platform for a wide range of connected devices, from consumer wearables to large networking equipment, to enable customers to leverage the opportunities created by the Internet of Things (IoT). VxWorks 7 also delivers a comprehensive set of security and safety features, enhanced connectivity, graphics, and storage capabilities, and the new Wind River Workbench 4 development suite. The announcement was positioned in one article as one of the "five trends from Embedded World." Read more in the selection of articles below:



Virtualization Without Compromise

Wind River Carrier Grade Communications Server, the industry’s first commercial carrier grade fully integrated and virtualized software platform, was unveiled at Mobile World Congress last month. The solution is designed specifically for network functions virtualization (NFV) deployment and seamlessly integrates with existing networks. As one article framed it, the announcement was one of the “NFV moves that stole the show.” Wind River also announced a partnership with HP to enable a new generation of carrier grade, NFV-ready servers for the evolving telecommunications market.

 

WHITE PAPERS

The RTOS as the Engine for the Internet of Things

The majority of the "things" in IoT are embedded systems, many of which are running a real-time operating system (RTOS). This paper outlines the critical characteristics an RTOS must have in order to meet the specific challenges and realize the enormous opportunities of IoT.
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Gigaom Research Report: Enabling IoT

Today's IoT use cases tend to be custom-designed, using a combination of embedded sensors, gateway devices, networking communications, and backend services. This report from Gigaom drills into what needs to be in place for IoT to deliver on its promise, with particular emphasis on how embedded devices integrate with cloud-based analytical services.
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Gigaom Research Report: NFV Adoption to Transform Telecommunications Infrastructure

This paper examines the emerging role of network functions virtualization (NFV) in the telecom network, providing an overview of NFV and taking a deeper look at some of the characteristics mandatory for both hardware and software. The paper also discusses different use cases and how these implementations can benefit carrier service providers (CSPs).
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CUSTOMERS

Daikin Applied

  

Daikin Applied, the world's largest HVAC company, is capitalizing on the opportunities of IoT by using the intelligent gateway solution from Intel®, Wind River, and McAfee to transform their business.
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Bosch Rexroth

Bosch Rexroth is a leading provider worldwide for drive and control technology. To bring new technologies to market quickly, Bosch Rexroth relies on VxWorks and Wind River Workbench to deliver reliable, robust, and high-performance controllers to the automation market.
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AgustaWestland

Project Zero is an unmanned, all-electric tiltrotor aircraft that hovers like a helicopter and converts to a fixed-wing aircraft in forward flight. AgustaWestland relied on Wind River VxWorks 653 Platform and Wind River Professional Services to design, develop, build, and test Project Zero in six months.
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