Disclosure of technology that satisfies the reliability and security levels required by communication applications
Joint demonstration with Lenovo, Altiostar, Lift.io, ZenBand, China Mobile, etc.

Wind River announced that it unveiled its latest network virtualization technology at MWC 2017 and showcased technology demonstrations with key ecosystem partners.

Wind River recognizes the growing importance of enhancing computing performance at the network edge. This is well known as Mobile Edge Computing, and deploying cloud computing capabilities at the edge can generate "fog," enabling network services more effectively. Furthermore, it was reported that through this, mobile operators, service and content providers, Internet TV (OTT) content providers, and independent software vendors (ISVs) can benefit from the proximity of content delivery, service agility, and enhanced performance offered by edge computing solutions.

The key details of the technology demonstrations with ecosystem partners showcased by Wind River at MWC 2017 are as follows.



Lenovo
Lenovo Group announced at this MWC that it has selected Wind River Titanium Cloud as a carrier-grade platform for demonstrating and validating its Network Function Virtualization (NFV) solutions.

As part of its collaboration with Wind River, Lenovo Group has joined the Wind River Titanium Cloud ecosystem and, by completing the testing and verification process, is now able to provide operators with a fully verified, interoperable, and immediately deployable NFVI integration solution. The Wind River Titanium Cloud and Lenovo System x Server integration solution is one of the most reliable NFVI solutions featuring cutting-edge hardware and software products, helping service providers and telecommunications equipment manufacturers accelerate time-to-market for NFV.


Altiostar​​
Altiostar, a leader in vRAN (virtual RAN) technology, announced that it has joined Wind River's Titanium Cloud ecosystem and has verified interoperability with solutions within the partner ecosystem. Altiostar vRAN™ can be deployed using readily available standard Ethernet transmission technology and supports the construction of high-density clusters without the need for dark fiber deployment and WDM (Wavelength Division Multiplexing), which are difficult and expensive to install at the end stage, thereby improving network performance while reducing capital investment and operating costs.

RIFT.io
RIFT.io, an open source technology provider for carrier-grade network virtualization solutions, is a founding member of the ETSI Open Source MANO (OSM) project and a major contributor to the seed code. Through a demonstration of multi-vendor VNF auto-scaling resource allocation technology, RIFT.io showcased a service deployment orchestration example of an auto-scaling IMS solution featuring integration with Metaswitch IMS on the Wind River Titanium cloud virtualization platform.

Genband (GENBAND)
GenBand, a leading real-time communications software solution provider, showcased differentiated NFV solutions for service providers at this MWC in collaboration with key NFV infrastructure ecosystem partners, including Wind River and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE).

In particular, XenBand introduced a Session Border Controller (SBC) VNF and VNF Manager with an independently scalable control and media plane architecture. This solution is demonstrated on Wind River Titanium Cloud, a fully integrated and immediately deployable virtualization software platform, showcasing technology that ensures real-time communication sessions at the network boundary are maintained securely and uninterrupted. Through virtualized SBCs, telecommunications operators can securely provide access-based communication services such as SIP Trunking and VoLTE interconnection. In addition, GenBand’s Analytics VNF helps operators optimize network performance through predictable root cause analysis and network capacity planning by enhancing network visibility through intelligent monitoring capabilities.

China Mobile​
China Mobile showcased the results of its extensive collaboration with Intel and Wind River at this year's MWC. The Augmented Reality demonstrated at the exhibition is a Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) application that runs on a high-availability Cloud RAN (C-RAN) platform, with all elements orchestrated by the Open-O framework. Open-O is a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project aiming to develop a carrier-grade open-source orchestration platform. In China Mobile's demo, Open-O will be presented as a service orchestrator managing Virtual Network Functions (VNFs). These VNFs are intended to deploy Augmented Reality services running on virtual eNodeBs of C-RAN nodes. All of these functions run on Wind River's Titanium Cloud Virtualization Platform. Wind River's virtualization platform was selected to ensure the implementation of ultra-low latency network performance—critical for edge applications such as C-RAN, MEC, and virtual eNodeBs—while guaranteeing the levels of uptime required by service providers. The hardware platform for this demo is the Huawei COTS X6800 server based on the Intel Broadwell 2.3G processor.