Wind River and China Mobile Team to Accelerate NFV for Mobile Networks
March 02 2015 - 3:00AM
Business Wire
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS
- Wind River is a founding partner in
China Mobile’s new OPNFV test lab.
- China Mobile and Wind River collaborate
on the development of virtualized small cell gateway solution and a
virtualized C-RAN solution.
- The jointly developed NFV solutions
will be showcased at the China Mobile booth in Hall 3, Stand 3A10
at Mobile World Congress 2015.
MOBILE WORLD CONGRESS – Wind River®, a world leader in
delivering software for intelligent connected systems, and China
Mobile have joined forces on multiple Network Functions
Virtualization (NFV) projects. The collaboration includes a new NFV
test lab as well as the development of virtualized small cell
gateway and cloud radio access network (C-RAN) solutions. The
combination of these efforts is designed to help the industry begin
to roll out NFV deployments and reduce time-to-market and operating
expenses (OPEX).
China Mobile has created a new test lab, based on the OPNFV open
source project, focused on accelerating NFV through an integrated,
open platform. The OPNFV lab provides a diverse hardware and
software infrastructure for open standards-based testing and
integration, including live network access. Wind River is one of
the founding partners of the test lab. The lab is able to provide
commercial grade NFV platforms, including Wind River Titanium
Server software, to support open source development and testing.
Offering a rich environment for the testing and evaluation of
commercial NFV platforms, the lab provides a variety of
participation opportunities for a diverse range of partners across
the ecosystem.
In the showcase of its joint virtualized small cell gateway
technology, China Mobile and Wind River have demonstrated the
feasibility of creating high-performance, high-available data plane
virtual network functions (VNFs) at a considerably lower cost and
with greatly improved flexibility. As data traffic continues to
grow at an exponential rate, small cell base stations are an
increasingly attractive option to help expand network capacity.
The virtualized small cell gateway solution features the ASTRI
Small Cell Gateway as a VNF on Wind River Titanium Server, running
on the Intel® Xeon® processor. The ASTRI gateways are designed for
offload signaling and mobility management to the mobile core
network and were pre-validated and optimized for performance with
Titanium Server, a carrier grade NFV infrastructure software
solution that is designed to meet the stringent "always on"
requirements of the telecom industry.
“The industry is adopting NFV models in order to quickly deploy
new services and achieve greater operational cost savings. However,
performance and system reliability cannot be sacrificed. It is
essential to maintain carrier grade requirements,” said Zhiqiang
Yang, deputy general manager of China Mobile Research Institute.
"By working with Wind River, we have made a meaningful step in this
promising direction.”
“Data traffic is pushing networks to their limits and operators
are looking to deploy NFV technologies for flexible deployment of
network applications and services. The complexities around NFV are
multi-faceted, and in order to make real progress, it is essential
to collaborate with industry leaders like China Mobile,” said
Charlie Ashton, senior director of business development for
networking solutions at Wind River. “Wind River Titanium Server
delivers carrier grade virtualization for NFV infrastructure,
helping to enable service providers to gain new flexibility,
scalability, and operational cost and energy benefits."
Additionally, China Mobile and Wind River have developed a C-RAN
solution for NFV deployment. The joint solution delivers a live
demonstration of a successful C-RAN that provides near-native
hardware performance and live migration of L1 to L3, and that
follows the requirements of the ETSI NFV Industry Standards Group.
The solution will also be demonstrated at Mobile World Congress
2015, and features Wind River Titanium Server technologies running
on an Intel Xeon processor-based server with a dedicated hardware
accelerator.
“With Wind River’s help, we successfully developed an
industry-first virtualized C-RAN base station baseband processing
unit (BBU) pool prototype that supports dynamic full carrier live
migration while satisfying the stringent real-time requirement of a
complete LTE protocol stack,” said Dr. Chih-Lin I, chief scientist
at China Mobile Research Institute.
By using Titanium Server as their NFV infrastructure platform,
customers may enjoy both the rapid service deployment of enterprise
networks coupled with the carrier grade uptime and reliability
typically mandated by telecom networks. Based on technologies using
open standards including carrier grade Wind River Linux, real-time
Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM), carrier grade plugins for
OpenStack®, Data Plane Development Kit, and accelerated vSwitch
technologies, and optimized for Intel architecture, Titanium Server
brings together high performance and carrier grade reliability.
Both the virtualized small cell gateway and the C-RAN
demonstration will be showcased at the China Mobile booth in Hall
3, Stand 3A10 at Mobile World Congress 2015. Separately, additional
NFV technologies will be on display at the Wind River booth in Hall
7, Stand 7J65. For more information about Wind River at Mobile
World Congress, visit
http://www.windriver.com/events/mwc-2015/index.html.
To learn more about how Wind River is addressing the
opportunities and challenges created by NFV and the transformation
of the network into the backbone for Internet of Things (IoT)
connectivity, visit http://www.windriver.com/markets/networking/.
Titanium Server is part of the Wind River Helix™ portfolio of
products enabling IoT advancements.
About Wind River
Wind River, a wholly owned subsidiary of Intel Corporation
(NASDAQ:INTC), is a world leader in delivering software for
intelligent connected systems. The company has been pioneering
computing inside embedded devices since 1981, and its technology is
found in nearly 2 billion products. Wind River offers the
industry's most comprehensive embedded software portfolio,
supported by world-class global professional services and support
and a broad partner ecosystem. Wind River delivers the technology
and expertise that enables the innovation and deployment of safe,
secure, and reliable intelligent systems. To learn more, visit Wind
River at www.windriver.com.
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Wind RiverJenny Suh, 510-749-2972jenny.suh@windriver.com
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