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Never has POTS (Plain Old Telephone Service) been such an accurate description. By today’s standards and the expectations of the modern consumer the services provided under the old ‘Dial Tone’ model are cer-tainly both ‘Old’ and ‘Plain.’ The fundamental concept of circuit switching changed little in the hundred years following the introduc-tion of the telephone in the late 1800s. With significant advances in electronics and com-puterization, telecommunications networks took their first steps towards packet and digital technologies in the 1970s and 80s. The 1990s will be remembered, fondly by some and less so by others, as the decade when a disruptive technology wrench was thrown in the works of the circuit switched world – The Internet. The bottom line is that the tele-communications and networking segments continue to be affected by an accelerating rate of change. This period of ongoing change is creating both opportunities and challenges for all ecosystem players from the creators of underlying technologies all the way through to the carriers and service providers.

One key change dynamic is the shift from traditional voice services towards a model where data will be the prevalent traffic car-ried. Yes there continues to be a need for us to speak to each other but the trend is that more and more voice traffic is switching to VoIP style

infrastructure. Some prognosticators have been heard signaling the ultimate demise of the cop-per-based POTS by the end of 2013. Whether or not one has made the decision to switch to a VoIP-based landline more people are choos-ing to use their mobile phones as their primary device and forego a fixed line altogether. This is especially true in the under 30 demographic who clearly represent the direction of things to come. Results from carriers in both Europe and the US reflect these shifts:

In their Q2 results, Qwest reported revenue from POTS down $160 million from the same period in 2009

At the beginning of this year Verizon Com-munications, announced plans to cut 13,000 jobs during 2010 to help cope with the revenue shortfall from subscriber losses in its fixed-line phone business. These cuts follow on the heels of a similar number of job losses from its landline business in 2008 and 2009.

In June of this year British Telecom reported revenues down 4% overall. A major contributor was their retail revenues from calls and lines which fell by 7%.

According to the TIA (Telecommunications Industry Association) overall voice revenues are expected to be flat in 2010 bolstered by growth in the VOIP sector, which will account

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added applications. The rollout of these new networks requires infrastructure built by the TEMs that helps fill the void left by the phasing out of POTS. Industry forecasters suggest that the market for EPC infrastructure alone will be worth nearly $2billion by 2012.

The CAPEX spend for the wire-less service providers won’t be insignificant but the opportunity for return looks pretty good. The mobile phones and devices we now carry are anything but plain and carry a premium for data usage that few users today would be without. All this adds to an increasing ARPU (Average Rev-enue Per User). The growth in data enabled phones sees no sign of abating. In September, IDC upped their 2010 projections for the mobile device market by 10% and are forecasting nearly 270 million

units will be added to the network in 2010 with 2011 expected to see yet another 25% increase.

Another new revenue stream enabled by both the wireless and wireline broadband explosion is the market for down-loads and applications. According to Juniper Research “combined rev-enues from apps funded by pay-per-download (PPD), value-added services (VAS, including freemium and subscrip-tion) and advertising is expected to rise from just under $10 billion in 2009 to $32 billion in 2015.”

The rate of introduction of new devices, services, technologies, applications and competitors is simply astounding. Competition is coming from all angles as new non-traditional players such as software and internet giants begin staking their claim to elements of this new market opportunity. For the service providers and infrastructure manu-facturers this requires them to be able to bring on new products and services quicker than ever before. In turn they must therefore rely more heavily on their technology partners for silicon, boards, plat-forms and system software that provide new levels of capacity, performance and time to market advantage. Somewhere in the mix of change there could easily be another disruptive technology but whether we see another major shift is yet to be determined. l

for 35.7 million lines this year, growing to 46.1 million by 2013. Another aspect of the shift towards data content is evidenced as the TIA looks at the market for IPTV where they expect carriers to earn $4.1 billion in 2010, up approx 42% from 2009; further growth is anticipated with 2013 forecasted to generate $10.2 billion.

The wireless seg-ments see the same shift towards data although without the legacy of copper networks to deal with. Wireless networks are not missing out on the fun as they work furiously to match network capabilities with consumer and

application demands. A whole new mobile network is evolving known as LTE (Long Term Evolution). Devised by the 3GPP, LTE defines a new architecture with an all-IP Evolved Packet Core (EPC) that adds new capabilities, increases efficiency and lowers the cost of deployment and delivery of value

the mobile phones and devices we now carry are anything but plain and carry a premium for data usage that few users today would be without.

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Checking the network ‘weather’ forecast: The outlook is for data, more data and simply even more data. Driven by smarter devices, the growth and demand for new applications and services continues to accelerate across all sectors of the communications infrastructure. Traditional voice is taking a back seat as our networks are flooded with VoIP, more video and mixed media traffic. Internet access is now a standard feature for all new mobile devices, and with a slew of new ‘net-enabled’ tablets, e-book readers and smart phones expect-ed the outlook for more and more data seems like a sure bet. For the network equipment and service providers this means further build out of networks with increased capacities, greater bandwidth and speed capable of delivering

lower latencies all the way to the user device. All this needs to be achieved while keeping capital equipment (CAPEX) and operation-al costs (OPEX) as low as possible.

Simply throwing more and more equipment at the problem is not a viable solution. OPEX metrics at the carrier level must be kept in line and ideally improved upon; therefore solutions must be more capable, intelligent and provide greater cost/performance efficien-cies. Moving to platforms that implement processors using more than a single core is helping meet the needs of both performance and financial metrics. Multi-core processors linked with intelligent software platforms are demonstrat-ing capabilities that can generate linear performance scalability and network acceleration for a broad

range of application elements.For years, increases in proces-

sor performance were delivered through the use of faster clock speeds and even ‘over clocking.’ While a time proven technique, faster clocks mean more power consumption and more heat, in turn leading to larger packaging and huge heat sinks that all con-sume valuable real estate. The laws of physics notwithstanding, this strategy was running out of head-room and a new way forward was needed.

Numerous systems have been built with multi-processor designs although they exacerbate the power challenges for little return in scalability (as we will see). The les-sons learned were not lost and the concepts of using multiple process-ing elements were applied inside rather than outside the chip in the development of new multi-core processors to create a whole new processing paradigm.

At the simplest level a multi-core design embeds two or more cores within the same processor packaging. In addition to the cores, designers add a significant amount of support circuitry that further enhances the performance and power efficiency of multi-core e.g. integrated memory controllers and cache. These internal architectures allow for the signal interconnects between each element to operate faster (and with less power) as they no longer need to travel off chip. One of the key aspects of multi-

Solutions Flow from a Steady Cadence of Innovation

Solutions Flow from a Steady Cadence of Innovation Embedded Computing

Increasingly telecom equipment manufacturers (TEMs) are being asked to deliver systems that perform better, use less energy, and cost the same or less than the previous generation. There are many factors at work here, but the bottom line is that service providers can’t always recoup their costs associated with bandwidth-hogging new devices.

TEMs that use traditional development models find it difficult to meet such demands. Think about it: most network elements today use different processing architectures to support different workloads. This means TEMs must be on top of a myriad of architectural technologies, support multiple development teams, and feed many ecosystems – multiples of everything that add up to longer and more costly development cycles.

Now consider the potential benefits of being able to develop all systems on the same architecture. One code base, one set of development tools, and one massive

ecosystem of suppliers. R&D, testing and integration would be greatly simplified. Entire product lines could scale from the low end of the bandwidth spectrum all the way up to high volume boxes with a single development effort, creating software reuse opportunities that reduces training time and licensing fees for customers. Time to market would be shorter, enabling more products to be introduced at a faster pace. Development costs would come down. And so on.

These benefits are enjoyed by manufacturers that standardize their development on Intel architecture. And all manufacturers that retool their development model to use a single processing architecture can enjoy the same. That’s because every Intel architecture-based microprocessor uses the same core computing architecture yet scales in performance and features to meet the differing requirements of different systems and workloads. Such singularity of design enabling drop-in upgrades and your choice of a wide array of speeds is unmatched in the industry.

And these are benefits that you can expect to continue well into the future, because Intel is the only silicon manufacturer to reliably deliver technology innovations on a rhythmic cadence. Intel’s engineering model – referred to internally as “tick-tock” – introduces new chip technology at predictable intervals, giving manufacturers, customers, and the entire development ecosystem a dependable roadmap for innovation.

But such rhythmic predictability and singularity of architecture doesn’t preclude advancements in design. To the contrary, Intel architecture leads the industry in technological breakthroughs for maximizing performance and energy efficiency. Technologies such as multi-core architecture and simultaneous multi-threading improve the number of instructions running simultaneously; built-in power management ensures lowest possible energy use for the workload; remote accessability enables systems to be managed and maintained from afar; and virtualization technology allows customers to consolidate systems at higher utilization rates, improving efficiency and making the best use of resources.

The challenges facing the communications industry are significant and require a number of different solutions. Manufacturers can do their part by standardizing all systems on a single architecture – Intel architecture – meeting network performance demand now and into the future while saving development costs. Many workloads. One architecture. That’s Intel architecture.

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core performance is their ability to execute multiple tasks simultane-ously. The technique is not new, but if each core has access to its own resources they can truly oper-ate independently. The majority of manufacturers have also imple-mented associated support code to help optimize threading efficiency e.g. Intel® Hyper-Threading (HT) Technology. Multiple processing elements and multi threading tech-niques provide the highest gains when an application can be divided into logical chunks. This makes

multi-core system designs perfect for networking applications where the control and data plane must run in concert but independently. The data plane itself can gain a huge boost as it must manage numer-ous, simultaneous instances as fast as possible while allowing for maximum scalability.

Getting the most from a multi-core system requires a software architecture that knows best how to utilize the resource it has at its disposal. The most common strategy for managing multiple processors is Symmetric Multi-processing or SMP.  In the case of SMP a single operating system (OS) instance manages memory and IO resources, and controls all task and thread assignments. In

theory, the greater the number of processors and threads within the application the greater the perfor-mance gain. In practice SMP rarely delivers this level of scalability for two reasons. Firstly, most applica-tions, even today, are still written with only one processor in mind due to the level of complexity involved. Secondly, no matter how ‘threaded‘ the application there is still a single OS instance and before long the OS itself begins to consume all the resources as it gets tied up trying to manage the multiple threads. Dual processor systems can derive some benefit

from SMP but many believe that the returns diminish rapidly as more processors are added with four being a practical limit. SMP and multi-core architectures oper-ate with similar limitations so to glean all the benefits of multi-core and be able to achieve linear scal-ability an alternate approach comes to the fore.

Asymmetrical multiprocess-ing (AMP) allows each core to operate singly or in groups each independent of each other. Tasks, or even complete applications can be bound to specific cores for processing. This has the benefit of isolating interrupts, I/O, and memory accesses or minimizing context switching for repetitive operations. AMP systems can allo-

cate one or more cores to run the OS while freeing others to dedicate all their capabilities and resources to a specific function e.g. packet processing. Now one can see how multi-core implementations can bring huge benefits to networking applications as both control and data planes can easily coexist on the same system, board or even processor. Implementation for a real world application may seem complex but operating environ-ments now exist that provide all the necessary elements to bring together the combined benefits of multi-core and AMP.

Wind River, the leader in embed-ded software and development tools, have developed a solution specifically for packet processing. The Wind River Network Accelera-tion Platform leverages multi-core technology and AMP and is designed to provide linear perfor-mance scalability. The platform bundles OS support for the control plane using either Wind River Linux or VxWorks with specific data plane acceleration software. Using tools such as their lightweight hypervisor, network application specific elements can be loaded onto individual cores and as more cores are dedicated to the data plane, packet throughput perfor-mance increases proportionately.

As the demand for network capacity and performance increas-es, multi-core can rise to meet the challenge. Managed by asymmetri-cal multiprocessing environments such as the Wind River Network Acceleration Platform allows truly scalable applications to be created that can divide and conquer. l

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The telecom and networking industries are entering a new phase to enable a rapidly evolving connected world. The rollout of 3G and 4G networks has opened up unlimited possibilities to a new wave of wireless connected devices, devices that connect people to people, people to machines, and machines to machines. The growing bandwidth and capacity demands and “always on” service level expectation on the network infrastructure requires equipment providers to find new ways to build competitive products that deliver faster performance and smarter applications with safer and more secure content transfer.

System and component suppliers to telecom equipment manufacturers (TEMs) and network equipment providers (NEPs) are individually taking advantage of the latest technical advances. Off the shelf systems suppliers are quickly moving to incorporate 10, 40, and even 100 Gigabit Ethernet interfaces to expand the capacity. Multi-core processor suppliers and embedded software vendors are moving in parallel to enable more effective and intelligent packet processing. Great progress is being made, but the real advantage to TEMs and NEPs comes when the ecosystem works together to make the whole greater than the sum of the parts.

Wind river on-Board programWind River is working with our strategic hardware partners to bring greater value to our customers through highly integrated and optimized commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) systems. We’re taking COTS to a whole new level with the Wind River On-Board Program. This program pre-integrates our breakthrough packet acceleration solution, Wind River Network Acceleration Platform, optimized for Intel multi-core processors, with the latest ATCA hardware systems from the leading COTS board vendors: Advantech, Emerson Network Power, Kontron, RadiSys, and others. The whole of the parts, software,

processors, and standards-based hardware systems, creates a powerful foundation to build highly competitive network elements. With the Wind River On-Board Program, network application developers can begin project development within five minutes of booting up their hardware.

Wind river netWork acceleration platformThe run-time software at the heart of the Wind River On-Board Program is Wind River Network Acceleration Platform. The platform is a packet acceleration solution that delivers ultrafast, best-in-class IP packet forwarding performance for network elements. The platform is a comprehensive, integrated bundle of Wind River’s industry-leading multi-core run-time technologies. It leverages asymmetrical multiprocessing (AMP) to deliver high performance control and data plane functionality in one consolidated runtime environment. The platform yields IP packet forwarding rates of 10.5 million packets per second on a single Intel Xeon 5400 core, five times the performance of other approaches.

Wind River Acceleration Platform also offers the flexibility to leverage the higher packet processing performance to build in network intelligence and greater security. Equipment providers who want to differentiate their products and deliver more value can now, in one system, design in new functionality for traffic management, quality of service, deep packet inspection, and other innovative applications.

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ecosystem Adaptation to Accelerating change

It was over 300 years ago that John Donne wrote “No man is an Island.” No matter how one wishes to interpret the writings of this metaphysical poet one clear truism is our dependence on others and our environment. Such dependence and indeed interdependence is exemplified within an ecosystem. Most often defined in a biological context, an ecosystem is a com-plex set of relationships of living organisms functioning as a unit and interacting with their physical environment. In a 1993 Harvard Business Review article entitled “Predators and Prey: A New Ecolo-gy of Competition” James F. More defined the concept of a business ecosystem.

An economic community supported by a foundation of interacting organizations and individuals—the organisms of the business world. This economic community produces goods and services of value to customers, who are themselves members of the ecosystem. The member organizations also include suppliers, lead producers, competitors, and other stakeholders.

Ecosystems evolve, change and adapt to their environment whether in a rain forest biome or corpo-rate conference room. Advancing technologies and changes in global economics have created numer-ous adaptations to occur in the

telecommunications and network-ing ecosystems. The industry used to be dominated by large monolithic entities such as AT&T until they were forced to break up. Even following the divestiture and

creation of the “baby Bells” the equipment industry was ruled by the tier 1 TEMs who had product portfolios all developed in-house. From hardware bus architectures to communications protocols and even operating systems - it was

all home-grown. Then the open standards revolution gave that environment a swift kick that initi-ated ecosystem changes that have lead us to where we are today. The reason open standards had such an effect is clearly articulated by Erik Sliman (OpenStandards.net).

By reducing costs, speeding time-to-market, and increasing market adoption and acceptance, products and services developed around open standards benefit from a higher Return on Investment (ROI). They benefit from lower barri-ers to market entry created through decreased customer risk with vendor selection as the associa-tion of support and durability with the individual vendor is transferred instead to the pool of vendors sup-porting open standards.

Although many of the old tier 1 TEMs still exist in some form, the landscape has changed drastically

ecosystems evolve, change and adapt to their environment whether in a rain forest biome or corporate conference room.

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Optimize Packet Processing Throughput with Advantech Intel® Xeon® 5600 Series Solutions Enabled by Wind River’s Network Acceleration PlatformMulti-core packet processing is poised to bring significant performance enhancements to the entire range of networking devices from the network core to the end-user. Advantech is at the leading edge of multi-core networking platform design and manufacturing with a scalable range of blades and systems based on Intel architecture enabling OEMs to build breakthrough solutions for enterprise, data center and carrier networks. Wind River’s Network Acceleration Platform creates a new paradigm for packet processing and when optimized for Intel® Xeon® multi-core processor systems delivers a high performance platform for remarkable gains in packet processing throughput and efficiency.

Advantech’s platform approach allows OEMs to scale their solutions across a range of appliances, ATCA blades, and systems, based on a common Intel architecture for seamless, multi-core software enablement.

More information on Advantech’s multi-core networking solutions can be found at

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The system deploys the latest Ethernet controllers from Intel with built-in Intel® Virtualization Technology VT-x & VT-d and Intel® I/OAT. Smart configurability allows the internal motherboard and I/O modules to be independently upgraded allowing OEMs to cost effectively adapt platforms to meet a wider range of customer performance and connectivity needs. The system is space-optimized for two 2.5" SATA drives and two PCI-E add-on cards. IPMI 2.0 is fully integrated into the system for remote management, maintenance, and diagnostics.

Integrated MIC-532X Intel® Xeon® Processor 5600 Series BladesAdvantech’s MIC-5320 and MIC-5322 are single and dual processor Intel® Xeon® Processor 5500/5600-based ATCA blades. They enable the performance available in an ATCA form factor with up to 12-cores and 24-threads of processing power, low DDR3 memory latency, fast PCI Express 2.0 bus and accelerated virtualization. The Intel® 82599 10 GbE controller plays a key role in end-to-end network performance and throughput to improve the entire data path with multi-core optimized queue support. For fast and secure applications, the blade supports up to 48 GB of triple channel DDR3 with ECC. The flexibility of the Intel® Xeon® 5600 Series allows tremendous upgradability, scalability and cost efficiency options.

FWA-6500 Intel® Xeon® Processor 5600 Series OEM-Ready Network ServerThe core system design is the same as the MIC-5322, providing the highest performance possible with flexible and scalable port densities. This simplifies portability of applications between the FWA-6500 and the ATCA-bladed environment. The key element for optimized

network connectivity is the Intel® 5520 IOH which provides 36 PCI-E Gen2 lanes with direct connect to the Intel-based Ethernet controllers on the front pluggable, field replaceable Network Mezzanine Cards.

Network Flexibility - Up to 8 x 10GbE or 32 x GbEThe FWA-6500 offers any combination of four front loading Network Mezzanine Cards (NMC) including:• 2-port SFP+ 10GbE NMC• 4-port RJ-45/SFP GbE NMC• 8-port RJ-45/SFP GbE NMC

and the whole market is depen-dant, to one extent or another, on fellow members of the eco-system. In terms of underlying technology and supply chain, key components are provided by what is known as the COTS ecosystem. As was originally recognized by More this ecosystem has multiple levels of suppliers, customers and stakeholders all interlinked and con-nected through a collection of open standards bodies. A model can be viewed as a flow of product from

supplier to customer that is molded through the work of the standards organizations. One perspective shows three distinct layers of guid-ance and direction that are divided between five key organizations.technical product specifications• The Linux Foundation pro-

motes, protects and advances

Linux by marshaling the resources of its members and the open source development community to ensure Linux remains free and technically advanced.

• PICMG is a consortium of companies who collaboratively develop open specifications for high performance telecom-munications and industrial computing applications. PIC-MG’s purpose is to offer equipment vendors common specifications, thereby increas-ing availability and reducing

costs and time to market. Standards developed and maintained by PICMG include AdvancedTCA, AMC, Compact-PCI, MicroTCA & PCI.

• SA Forum focuses its efforts on producing key specifications to address the requirements of availability, reliability and

dependability for a broad range of applications.

reference Architectures• SCOPE is an industry alliance

committed to accelerating the deployment of carrier grade base platforms for service provider applications. Its mission is to help, enable and promote the availability of open carrier grade base platforms based on Com-mercial Off The Shelf (COTS) hardware / software and Free Open Source Software (FOSS) building blocks, and to promote interoperability to better serve Service Providers and consumers.

Interoperability requirements• The Communications Plat-

forms Trade Association (CP-TA) is a global organiza-tion comprised of companies dedicated to accelerating the adoption of open specification-based xTCA communications platforms through interoper-ability compliance guidelines and member advocacy.

From the perspective of the COTS ecosystem, customers are both the equipment vendors and service providers. The supply side has multiple levels that build upon each other to provide the core platforms, based on the open standards, which are needed by the equipment vendors to create the solutions on which the carriers then provide service. The founda-tion of the supply chain is grounded by the silicon vendors such as Intel who have developed highly capable

...the landscape has changed drastically and the whole market is dependant, to one extent or another, on fellow members of the ecosystem.

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4g lte Wireless market groWthAmong the different wireless technologies, 4G LTE is widely con-sidered to be the next heir apparent, as 156 operators in 64 countries are currently investing in LTE net-works, and have either made strong commitments to deploy LTE systems or are already engaged in trials, as confirmed in the October 2010 Global mobile Suppliers Association (GSA) report. Nearly 30 opera-tors plan roll-outs before the end of 2010.

Service providers are investi-gating how to manage growth in mobile data usage – up to a possible 10,000% increase per-capita across a five-year span – despite only moderate revenue increases. To remain profitable in this new environment, new strate-gies are required from their telecom equipment suppliers.

Commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) hardware platforms is one business model that telecom equipment ven-dors have depended on to secure a faster deployment of 3G wireless network applications for their carrier clients, and are looking to replicate this with 4G LTE solutions. This will require higher system capacities than today’s 10GbE systems and, consequently, the only standards-based hardware offering 40GbE is

AdvancedTCA. Kontron is working with TEM cli-

ents to help migrate to 40GbE from 10GbE AdvancedTCA hardware platforms, which consist of vary-ing node blades such the Kontron AT8050 processor blade with either

Intel® Xeon® 5500 (Quad-Core) or 5600 (6-Core) Series Processors. This migration model avoids the cost of fork lifting entire systems and ensures TEMs can both protect their hardware capital expenses and make the changeover to 40GbE from 10GbE in line with a timetable that meets all the technical, cost, and revenue needs of their carrier and service provider clients.

data center market groWth and consolidation With multicoresData centers are getting bigger. The majority of analysts are all indicat-ing positive increases for 2010

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chipsets designed for the rigors of the new telecom environment. An excellent example is the latest range of embedded multi-core pro-cessors such as the Intel® Xeon® 5500 and 5600 series. At the next level these processors need to be built onto blades and into systems which is where the leading build-ing block COTS vendors bring their value. Companies such as Advantech, , Emerson Network Power, Kontron, Radisys, and oth-ers each have extensive portfolios ranging from motherboards and mezzanines through specialized computing and network processing blades to complete platforms and systems. Bringing it all together and providing one of the key prom-ises of open systems – time to market, is the software layer of the ecosystem. Wind River is an excel-lent example of how the software players in the ecosystem optimize their runtime and tools products to provide operating systems, advanced networking technologies, development environments and simulation and test architectures (e.g. Wind River Network Accelera-tion Platform) that make application and solution development as easy as possible for the TEMs.

The evolution begun through the open standards revolution contin-ues on. The business ecosystems developed in support of the tele-coms and networking industries are now well established and continue from strength to strength. To finish where we started it is now true to say that no company or product is an island and each is dependent on the ecosystem that surrounds sup-ports and enables its success. l

and beyond. This growth is due to the increase in demand for data processing power and information storage. As a result, denser servers are being added to the existing Data Centers of various companies so as to scale up the capacity. At the same time these data centers must spend less money on smaller, less power hungry, more performant and more easily virtualized technologies.

An excellent way to achieve all these objectives is through the

implementation of a multi-core server strategy. When it comes to multi-core high performance computing the Intel® Xeon® 5500 and 5600 processor series have feature sets that will enable all key data center objectives to be met.

With significant experi-ence in high-performance server products using Intel architecture AdvancedTCA

blades and CompactPCI boards, Kontron has also introduced its first server-class embedded mother-board, the KTC5520-EATX.

Kontron also provides additional value by integrating the different software components such as OS, BIOS and IPMI, and works with part-ners like Wind River to pre-validate ‘out-of-the-box’ software kits for faster application development. l

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industry Q&AWind river’s mike langlois discusses managing telecom network demands

Wind River, a wholly owned subsidiary of Intel Corporation is a world leader in embedded and mobile software. Wind River has been pioneering computing inside embedded devices since 1981 and its technology is found in more than 500 million products. Wind River has created a structure that allows for both a product and industry focus. From the core, to the edge, communications and networking infrastructure has always been a key market for Wind River. To help address the demands presented by the ongoing growth within the competitive broadband marketplace Wind River is introducing

a new paradigm for multi-core based high performance packet handling and is developing acceleration solutions based on their newly launched Network Acceleration Platform. The man behind Wind River’s Telecom and Networking Business strategy is General Manager and Vice President, Mike Langlois. We were able to spend some time with Mike and talked with him about his vision and the direction that Wind River is taking to spur innovation in this fast paced market sector.

Hello Mike, tell us a little about your background and how you came to Wind river.

I spent the bulk of my career working for Nortel, creating tele-com infrastructure products and services. My background gives me a unique perspective as I have had firsthand experience with products and technologies

that cover markets from CPE to access, edge and core. I joined Wind River two and a half years ago and was brought in to help verticalize the company’s market approach and run the network and telecom segment direction and solution strategy.

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What are some of these demands and challenges you see facing the telecom market?

There has been a huge market shift over the last 5-10 years. We have seen steady, single digit, growth since the bubble burst in 2001 and today approx $230 Billion of the $1 Trillion spent by consumers and business goes to the equipment companies who are our Wind River customer base. The makeup of this equipment has changed and contin-ues to do so as the trend shows a move in spending away from voice and towards IP broadband data. We see two primary challenges. Firstly service providers are experiencing

a dramatic increase in demand for more bandwidth driven by a traf-fic shift towards data, media and specifically video. This will persist for at least 10 years. This places further demand on the supply chain

i.e. our customers, the TEMs, who must build much more aggressive, high capacity products, faster than they ever have before. The service providers are OK doing this but it does lead to challenge #2. They can deal with network build out but how do they get paid for that sig-nificant investment of CAPEX and OPEX? They have to add more val-ue and be able to increase ARPUs accordingly. They have a significant assets in the network knowledge itself and in the information that flows through their network and

they must harness it and provide intelligent packet handling enabling a different and enhanced consumer valued experience.

How is Wind river working to help address these challenges, what’s the vision?

Wind River is in the ideal position to help enable the next genera-tion of telecom platform elements that will allow TEMs and service providers to create and participate in the ‘Telco 2.0’ world . By help-ing TEMs create platforms that can apply more ‘network intelligence’ and capture the information assets flowing through the networks, revenue can be generated not only from the consumer of service but by those that would wish to distrib-ute content in a context and user relevant way.

Wind River has built a capabil-ity in software called the Network Acceleration Platform (NAP). It allows existing applications to run faster and smarter through the use of packet inspection and comprehension of content that can lead to differentiated services e.g. Standard vs. High Definition video. We have built a software platform with extremely high capacity and low latency laid on a foundation that adopts multi-core processing technologies. It will be impossible to deal with this packet explosion without adopting multi-core in both wireless and wireline infrastruc-ture. We are building NAP in a way where our customers can get optimization and choice from the silicon community.

BENEFITS OF COMMERCIAL-OFF-THE-SHELF (COTS) LTE SEG:Highest performance firewall and IPsec— handles exponential data increasesComplete Tunnel Terminating Gateway (TTG) solution — saves development timeDesigned to 3GPP Network Domain Security (NDS) standards—compatible with other equipment

Pre-integrated ATCA blade— reduces cost of external appliances

Most major worldwide mobile operators have announced plans to migrate their networks to Long Term Evolution (LTE),

an all-IP network that will increase broadband capacity to support up to 10 times higher data rates and enable an abundance of new mobile applications. As these IP-based telecom networks are deployed, it is inevitable that mobile operators will face new security threats.

LTE networks are based on all-IP networks and do not have the same inherent security as current TDM/ATM networks. The flat LTE topology provides a direct route from cell sites to the network core, creating the possibility for Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks and interception of user communications. The LTE architecture pushes more mobility function out to the cell sites, enabling hackers to potentially disrupt service and bring down larger portions of the network. LTE networks have more small and distributed cell sites, which are difficult and costly to physically protect against criminal activity. Security threats resulting from untrusted

network endpoints, shared facilities and disgruntled employees are magnified in an all-IP environment. Operators are also increasingly sharing cell sites and IP backhaul between network nodes and integrating femtocells and WiFi architectures alongside traditional macrocells. With the explosion of mobile devices and volume of mission critical data being transmitted, these factors drive new security requirements in LTE.

The 3GPP Network Domain Security (NDS) standard requires a security gateway to secure the connections

between network elements in different domains or using “untrusted” commu-nications links–typically between cell sites and the packet core. The RadiSys LTE SEG is a security gateway purpose built for LTE deployments. This solution is a response to telecom equipment manufacturers’ (TEM) requests for a

packaged carrier grade security solution to accelerate time-to-market. The LTE SEG is the industry’s first 3GPP NDS compliant security gateway to enable both high performance firewall and IPsec tunneling in a single carrier grade solution. This high performance network element enables security in the wireless infrastructure and provides more than 5x performance improvement in secure tunneling over current solutions. This lowers both OPEX and CAPEX for mobile operators.

The RadiSys LTE SEG can be deployed as a standalone network element, or easily integrated as a turnkey blade solution into existing TEM products. Both options provide carrier grade high availability with fault tolerant failover and are based on field-proven network security software. In addition, the RadiSys solution enables 2G/3G mobile network offload solutions—including femtocells, I-WLAN and UMA/GAN—by securely backhauling voice, data and video traffic via IPsec tunnels over the public Internet.

Network security is important for LTE equipment vendors because the scope of potential breaches is large, the technology is complex and engineers with relevant security expertise are scarce and expensive. RadiSys has responded to its TEM customers’ request for carrier grade security by delivering a purpose-built solution to address these security issues associated with the all-IP architecture. WWW.RADISYS.COM

Venkataraman PrasannanGM, Communications Networking

TheRadiSysLTESEGisasecuritygatewaypurposebuiltforLTEdeployments

Securing Mobile Network Infrastructure

...service providers are experiencing a dramatic increase in demand for more bandwidth driven by a traffic shift towards data, media and specifically video.

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How will multi-core achieve this?

The key to success is in distribut-ing the application and workload across all available cores. Our NAP is capable of truly linear growth and expansion. A lot of legacy systems are built using SMP (Symmetric Multiprocessing) which is not particularly scalable and typically

creates a performance plateau. We have adopted an AMP (Asymmetric Multiprocessing) architecture which is up to 30 times faster. Using a Wind River executive (WRE) on each core and our ‘hypervisor,’ that can control many many cores, you can run a payload at full throttle through each core in parralel and the system will scale in a linear fashion. The whole solution we put together is industry unique and very powerful …

that sounds like a lot of work isn’t that going to increase application complex-ity and make it more time consuming to develop?

In fact it’s actually the opposite situation as we have done all the work to make it easier and have built a complete starter kit solution. It’s true that a typical solution like this could take days or weeks just

to bring up the first board, however, with our NAP on board program we have shown that the system will come up and be able to start writ-ing customer applications in approx 2-4 minutes, a major improvement to say the least. This is possible as we have worked closely with our COTS partners to take our software and bundle it with the hardware to create an out of box experience like they haven’t seen before. It’s going to save them a lot of time and will

help with the adoption of their solutions as well. We figure this will save our customers a couple of months for new projects.

With respect to the Cots vendors, how will we see sup-port for the new Wind river solutions such as the network Acceleration platform across the hardware vendor ecosystem?

We work closely with our hardware partners to ensure we can achieve broad support and we have pro-cesses in place to ensure BSPs (Board Support Packages) and soft-ware integration happens before key silicon and boards hit the market. In earlier times there could often have been a 3-6 months lag from when a board came out to being fully supported. Now we aim to have everything working out of the box with the board ready to run with the BSP in place and also all

the software and the tools such as our workbench and NAP software running on it so our customers can start adding their software immedi-ately. This all translates to months of savings for the OEM.

What types of boards will we see supported first?

Our customers are the primary drivers and we have been working hard to ensure all the boards that have the highest coverage for the key telecom and networking appli-cations will be available as soon as possible. We have programs in place with all the top board vendors such as Radisys, Emerson, Kon-tron, Advantech and Continuous Computing. This is an exciting time and we expect to see a significant number of boards supported by the end of this year with the roll out continuing through the early part of 2011 and beyond.

nap and the on board program is a huge leap forward for cots, how do you see this evolving in the near future?

Many of the COTS board vendors add a lot of their own market or application specific intellectual property to their standards-based systems. In the near future, I see the board vendors leveraging the performance and built-in control and data plane capabilities in NAP to innovate and build more differ-entiated products for high growth market segments like video, security, LTE, and perhaps even emerging markets like Machine to Machine. l

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