Adopting Virtualized Small Cells to Support Data Offload

Wind River (www.windriver.com) announced that network equipment manufacturer Raisecom has developed a virtualized small cell gateway by implementing Wind River Titanium Server™ to support Network Functions Virtualization (NFV).

Sandy Guo, carrier account director at Raisecom, stated, "The telecommunications industry has recently been focusing on virtualized network functions to increase revenue and improve flexibility in network configuration and operational efficiency. Since most telecom service providers require 'five-nines (99.999%)' level reliability, our hardware products meet these standards, and virtualized products must also comply with these requirements. To achieve this, Raisecom was able to rapidly transition to NFV through Wind River's NFV solution, accelerating market entry timing and enabling us to supply better products at lower costs to our customers."

As the first step in NFV implementation, Raisecom virtualized small cell gateway functionality. By adopting small cells, telecom operators can support mobile network data offload, increase frequency utilization efficiency, expand service coverage, and increase network capacity. Considering the significant cost and time required to independently implement a high-performance NFV platform for the gateway, Raisecom selected Wind River. By adopting Titanium Server as the NFV infrastructure platform, Raisecom was able to reduce product testing and validation costs by up to 20% compared to existing small cell gateway hardware, and reduce time-to-market by approximately 30%.

Woo-Young Choi, director overseeing Wind River's network business in Korea, stated, "To meet requirements for strong network flexibility, scalability, and adaptability in NFV environments, virtualized services must provide carrier-grade performance and reliability. Wind River Titanium Server is an NFV infrastructure platform providing carrier-grade virtualization, enabling the telecommunications industry to more easily and rapidly achieve its goals of reducing costs and developing high-value-added services through NFV."

Wind River's Titanium Server is a carrier-grade NFV infrastructure software solution designed to meet the telecommunications industry's stringent requirement of 'always-on' service continuity.

By implementing Titanium Server, it is possible to achieve rapid service deployment at levels previously possible in traditional enterprise networks, as well as carrier-grade uptime and reliability strictly defined in telecom operator networks. Wind River's Titanium Server, particularly based on carrier-grade Wind River Linux and real-time KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine), OpenStack®, DPDK (Data Plane Development Kit), and accelerated vSwitch technology optimized for open standards and Intel architecture, ensures outstanding performance and high reliability that meet customer expectations.

Titanium Server is included in Wind River Helix™, Wind River's IoT strategy portfolio that enables secure management across the entire path from intelligent devices at the Edge, gateways, networks, and cloud. Additionally, Wind River's 'Titanium Cloud (Wind River Titanium Cloud™) Ecosystem Program' supports telecom operators and telecom equipment manufacturers in accelerating time-to-market through optimized standard solutions with guaranteed interoperability based on NFV infrastructure.