Wind River Launches Partner Validation Program Targeting Networking and Telecoms Industry

ALAMEDA, CA - May 5, 2009 - Wind River (NASDAQ: WIND) today announced the Wind River Partner Validation Program with initial partners 6WIND, Continuous Computing, GoAhead Software, Oracle, RADVISION and Tail-f Systems.

"Application performance in the network is becoming a key competitive differentiator for many network and telecom equipment providers," says Eric Carmès, CEO of 6WIND. "Our tight partnership with Wind River has allowed us to deliver to customers an optimized networking offload Linux solution that takes advantage of performance features built into new multicore hardware systems."

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6WIND Announces Support for Cavium Networks OCTEON™ II Multicore MIPS64 Processor

PARIS, France - April 14, 2009 - 6WIND, a leading provider of embedded software solutions to simplify networking and application development within multicore processor based equipment, today announced support for the OCTEON II Processors from Cavium Networks (NASDAQ: CAVM), a leading provider of semiconductor products that enable intelligent processing for networking, communications, storage, wireless, video and security applications.

"Cavium Network's OCTEON II is state of the art multicore technology that addresses several markets in need of higher performance equipment and applications," commented Eric Carmès, CEO of 6WIND. "Combined with our ability to simplify the multicore networking and design environment with 6WINDGate, our joint solution delivers to market the ability for design engineers to quickly maximize performance of OCTEON II based designs while enjoying a faster time to market and revenue."

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Application Note: Packet Processing for LTE Equipment

LTE (Long Term Evolution) is gaining momentum to be the key standard for deploying Next Generation Networks (NGN) that provides end-users with unrivalled mobile broadband access. Features include data rates of 100Mbps downlink and 50Mpbs uplink, simultaneous voice and data sessions, and low round-trip latency to support real-time applications like gaming and mobile TV.

LTE is based on All IP Network (AIPN) architecture. As a consequence, the network architecture is much simpler compared to existing architectures such as 3G.

Several technical challenges will have to be taken up to deploy the LTE infrastructure. First of all, the aggregation of a large number of users using high speed mobile access will significantly increase the required packet processing performance. Secondly, processing on each packet will be necessary to differentiate and secure services. Also, green computing will be essential to limit power consumption. At the same time, infrastructure deployment schedules must be shortened for faster revenue generation.

Multicore technology provides the needed processing capabilities and flexibility, and offers a high level of integration with lower power consumption required by LTE. However, software design complexities persist, making development and integration difficult. The result is a hinderance to multicore deployment and performance. On top of existing standards, and because the communications layer has become mission critical, there are new requirements for software to be designed specifically in a way that simplifies and expedites multicore-based designs. It must:

• Efficiently implement fast path packet processing to take advantage of the full performance achievable with multicore processors
  
• Implement a complete, comprehensive, and ready to use set of networking features necessary for LTE equipment including VLAN, Link Aggregation, GRE encapsulation, GTP and IP over IP tunnelling, Layer 3 forwarding with virtual routing management, routing and virtual routing, Per Packet QoS and Filtering (ACLs), IPsec, SVTI, IKEv1 and IKEv2 for security…
  
• Be fully integrated with the control plane OS to maximize software reuse, simplify integration and hide multicore design complexities
  
• Run on market-leading multicore platforms with unified high-level APIs for interfacing built-in accelerators such as crypto engines
  
• Scale over different multicore architectures including low cost high volume hardware for eNodeB and large ATCA configurations for core equipment
  
• Provide an open architecture to ease integration of differentiating and value added features

Demonstrating leadership in the LTE arena, 6WINDGate has been selected by Tier-1 equipment providers for LTE Evolved Packet Core equipment (Mobility Management Entity - MME, Packet Data Network Gateway - PDNGW -, Serving Gateway - SG) and eNodeB….

A complete Application Note is available here

6WINDGate is the undisputed market leader in providing embedded software that simplifies, expedites and maximizes performance capabilities of multicore processor-based designs and applications. 6WINDGate Fast Path can be provided with a pre-integrated Linux networking stack and Control Plane protocols to reduce development time or integrated with existing software thanks to a smart architecture that hides multicore complexities.

If you are interested in our 6WINDGate offering, presentations, performance results and evaluation software are available upon request.

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