Wind River Releases Single Core Support to Deliver on 5G Needs

Wind River, a leader in software for mission-critical intelligent systems, unveiled its Wind River Studio support for single core physical footprint on fourth-generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors with Intel vRAN Boost, which includes integrated acceleration to help increase throughput and decrease latency and power to support challenging 5G workloads.

“5G is creating new opportunities across industries, and there will be an increasing need for greater performance and intelligence at the edge of the network,” said Avijit Sinha, chief product officer, Wind River. “Given that requirement, with Intel’s 4th Gen Xeon Scalable processor, we have reduced the Wind River Studio physical footprint from two cores down to one core, enabling more processing power for cloud-native network functions (CNF) applications at the edge. We continue to deliver a differentiated solution to help customers meet their 5G objectives based on proven Wind River Studio technology in live deployment with operators globally.”

Intel VP and General Manager of the Wireless Access Network Division Cristina Rodriguez added, “The mobile network is rapidly adopting cloud-native, software-defined architecture to increase the pace of delivering innovative services. The optimized cloud platform from Wind River will help service providers achieve their performance, scaling, and sustainability needs on Intel Xeon processor-based servers.”

Wind River Studio provides a fully cloud-native, Kubernetes and container-based architecture, based on open source, for the development, deployment, operations and servicing of distributed edge networks at scale. It delivers a foundation for a geographically distributed managed solution able to simplify Day 1 and Day 2 operations by providing single-pane-of-glass (SPoG), zero-touch automated management of thousands of nodes, no matter their physical location. Studio addresses the complex challenges of deploying and managing a physically distributed, cloud-native vRAN infrastructure to provide traditional RAN performance in a vRAN/Open RAN deployment.

Building on decades of data center, network and intelligent edge innovation, the 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors include built-in accelerators to further push the power/performance envelope and efficiently support increasingly demanding workloads including 5G signal processing, AI, analytics, networking, storage, and HPC.

These processors with Intel vRAN Boost feature fully integrated acceleration and are optimized for high-performance, low-latency network and edge workloads. For 5G workloads, built-in accelerators help increase throughput and decrease latency and power. Compared to third-generation processers, 4th Gen Intel Xeon processors deliver up to twice the vRAN capacity without increasing power consumption, and 4th Gen Intel Xeon processors with Intel vRAN Boost deliver an additional 20 percent compute power savings.

To learn more, visit Wind River at www.windriver.com.