ALAMEDA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 31, 2000--Wind River
Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:WIND), a leading provider of software and
services for smart devices in the Internet age, today announced
general availability of Tornado(TM) for Managed Switches (TMS), the
company's first integrated product for internetworking equipment
vendors.
The company also stated that TMS is the first product available
as part of an overall strategy to provide integrated development
platforms for vendors of Small Office/Home Office (SOHO), enterprise,
and carrier class infrastructure equipment. (See addendum with TMS
support quotes from customers and partners.)
"TMS represents the first milestone on our roadmap for
commoditizing the common components found in network infrastructure
devices," said David Fraser, vice president and general manager of
Wind River's networking business unit. "Customers have a very
versatile and powerful product in TMS, both in terms of what it does
as a stand-alone product and in terms of its value as the foundation
for complementary technology.
"A standard platform such as TMS provides a significant jumpstart
for vendors looking to develop leading-edge products. A
highly-integrated product also appeals to lower-tier players who build
commodity products."
TMS has already been licensed by over 20 companies including
Ardent Technologies, BATM Advanced Communications, Cerent, Force10
Networks, I-Cube, ODS Networks, and Richard HIRSCHMANN GmbH & Co.
Applications include Ethernet switches, cable modem termination
systems, and a carrier-class aggregation switch.
In addition, Wind River is working with leading network and
packet processing vendors to provide support for TMS. Vendors working
on driver support include Allayer Technologies Corp., Broadcom, Intel,
MMC Networks, and Music Semiconductors.
"Wind River's architecture for supporting the development of
Internet infrastructure devices is synergistic with the Intel Internet
Exchange(TM) (IX) Architecture and fits Intel's vision of how networks
will be built in the future. Equipment vendors can take advantage of
programmable silicon along with highly integrated software packages
like Tornado for Managed Switches to accelerate time to market for
next generation networking equipment," said Len Rand, general manager
of Intel's Internet Exchange Architecture Operation. "With the level
of integration it can offer, Wind River is extremely well positioned
to help enable a new generation of software-programmable networking
devices."
The tremendous growth of the Internet is putting increased
pressure on equipment vendors. Manufacturers are being pushed to
introduce new, higher-performing, lower-cost products more quickly
than ever before.
Until now, vendors have faced significant challenges in pulling
together solutions from disparate, often incompatible, sources. A
real-time operating system (RTOS) may come from one supplier,
management software from another, and protocol stacks and drivers from
still other sources.
By combining off-the-shelf network processors with infrastructure
application products such as TMS, networking equipment vendors can
more easily and quickly develop leading-edge Internet equipment. The
TMS platform incorporates the powerful Tornado embedded application
development platform, the industry-leading VxWorks(R) RTOS, and the
common set of protocol and management components required for
enterprise-class routing and switch-based devices.
In addition, TMS can easily be extended to address a variety of
network device types and to provide more complete network application
solutions.
"No other commercial software vendor has as well integrated an
offering as Wind River," said Jerry Fiddler, co-founder and chairman
of Wind River Systems. "And by supplying a higher percentage of the
end solution, the integration effort for the customer is vastly
reduced.
"Being able to focus on powerful and highly targeted solutions
was one of the key company goals when we first created business units.
The additional engineering talent that the merger with ISI will bring
to these efforts will only accelerate our ability to meet the needs of
specialized markets like networking."
With infrastructure application products such as TMS, Wind River
will be able to provide scalable, highly integrated products targeted
at the enterprise, carrier, and SOHO market segments. Initial target
applications include switches, routers, VPN servers, firewalls, and
home gateways.
Tornado for Managed Switches
Wind River System's Tornado for Managed Switches is a complete
embedded software solution for building manageable enterprise-class
data networking switch and router equipment. With TMS, manufacturers
now have all the ingredients necessary to quickly build Ethernet
switches, routers, and other leading-edge data networking products.
TMS version 1.0 is a complete Layer 2 management and switching
software solution for desktop- and wiring-closet-class Ethernet
switches. Support for Spanning Tree, VLAN, and Priority Queuing is
provided. TMS includes complete management capability with support for
console via Telnet or serial, SNMP, and web-based management.
The unique TMS architecture ensures consistent views of the
management information regardless of which method is used. Source code
to all drivers, protocols, and management sample screens is provided
for easy customization and extension.
Pricing and Availability
TMS is offered in two separate packages, each tailored for a
different class of data networking equipment:
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-- Basic Layer 2 Switch Package: software components for low-cost
desktop and workgroup Ethernet switches
-- Extended Layer 2 Switch Package: software components for more
sophisticated wiring closet and backbone Ethernet switches
*T
Upcoming enhancements include the integration of the software
components for enterprise-class Layer 3 switches and routers. Each
package is provided in source-code format and will run out-of-the-box
with the Tornado development environment, enabling developers to
radically shorten the design process. |
