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 Never has POTS (Plain Old Telephone infrastructure. Some prognosticators have been
Service) been such an accurate description. heard signaling the ultimate demise of the cop-
By today’s standards and the expectations of per-based POTS by the end of 2013. Whether
the modern consumer the services provided or not one has made the decision to switch to

Acceleration
under the old ‘Dial Tone’ model are cer- a VoIP-based landline more people are choos-
tainly both ‘Old’ and ‘Plain.’ The fundamental ing to use their mobile phones as their primary
concept of circuit switching changed little device and forego a fixed line altogether. This
in the hundred years following the introduc- is especially true in the under 30 demographic
tion of the telephone in the late 1800s. With who clearly represent the direction of things to

Managing Data Growth

significant advances in electronics and com- come. Results from carriers in both Europe and
puterization, telecommunications networks the US reflect these shifts:
took their first steps towards packet and In their Q2 results, Qwest reported revenue
digital technologies in the 1970s and 80s. The from POTS down $160 million from the same
1990s will be remembered, fondly by some period in 2009
and less so by others, as the decade when a At the beginning of this year Verizon Com-
disruptive technology wrench was thrown in munications, announced plans to cut 13,000
the works of the circuit switched world – The jobs during 2010 to help cope with the revenue
Internet. The bottom line is that the tele- shortfall from subscriber losses in its fixed-
communications and networking segments line phone business. These cuts follow on the
continue to be affected by an accelerating heels of a similar number of job losses from its
rate of change. This period of ongoing change landline business in 2008 and 2009.
is creating both opportunities and challenges In June of this year British Telecom reported
for all ecosystem players from the creators of revenues down 4% overall. A major contributor
underlying technologies all the way through to was their retail revenues from calls and lines
the carriers and service providers. which fell by 7%.
One key change dynamic is the shift from According to the TIA (Telecommunications
traditional voice services towards a model Industry Association) overall voice revenues
where data will be the prevalent traffic car- are expected to be flat in 2010 bolstered by
ried. Yes there continues to be a need for us to growth in the VOIP sector, which will account
speak to each other but the trend is that more
and more voice traffic is switching to VoIP style continued on page 3

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the network in 2010 with
for 35.7 million lines 2011 expected to see yet
this year, growing to another 25% increase.
46.1 million by 2013. Another new revenue
Another aspect of the stream enabled by both
shift towards data the wireless and wireline
content is evidenced broadband explosion is
as the TIA looks at the market for down-
the market for IPTV loads and applications.
where they expect According to Juniper
carriers to earn $4.1 Research “combined rev-
billion in 2010, up enues from apps funded
approx 42% from by pay-per-download
2009; further growth (PPD), value-added
is anticipated with services (VAS, including
2013 forecasted to freemium and subscrip-
generate $10.2 billion. tion) and advertising is
The wireless seg- expected to rise from
ments see the same just under $10 billion in
shift towards data 2009 to $32 billion in
although without the 2015.”
legacy of copper networks to deal added applications. The rollout The rate of introduction of new
with. Wireless networks are not of these new networks requires devices, services, technologies,
missing out on the fun as they infrastructure built by the TEMs applications and competitors is
work furiously to match network that helps fill the void left by the simply astounding. Competition is
capabilities with consumer and phasing out of POTS. Industry coming from all angles as new non-
forecasters suggest that the market traditional players such as software
for EPC infrastructure alone will be and internet giants begin staking
The mobile phones and worth nearly $2billion by 2012. their claim to elements of this new
devices we now carry are The CAPEX spend for the wire- market opportunity. For the service
anything but plain and less service providers won’t be providers and infrastructure manu-
carry a premium for data insignificant but the opportunity facturers this requires them to be
usage that few users for return looks pretty good. The able to bring on new products and
today would be without. mobile phones and devices we services quicker than ever before.
now carry are anything but plain In turn they must therefore rely
and carry a premium for data more heavily on their technology
application demands. A whole new usage that few users today would partners for silicon, boards, plat-
mobile network is evolving known be without. All this adds to an forms and system software that
as LTE (Long Term Evolution). increasing ARPU (Average Rev- provide new levels of capacity,
Devised by the 3GPP, LTE defines enue Per User). The growth in data performance and time to market
a new architecture with an all-IP enabled phones sees no sign of advantage. Somewhere in the mix
Evolved Packet Core (EPC) that abating. In September, IDC upped of change there could easily be
adds new capabilities, increases their 2010 projections for the another disruptive technology but
efficiency and lowers the cost of mobile device market by 10% and whether we see another major
deployment and delivery of value are forecasting nearly 270 million shift is yet to be determined. l

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Solutions Flow from a Steady Cadence

of Innovation
Divide and Conquer – Multi- range of application elements.
For years, increases in proces- Embedded Computing

Core Platforms Take on the sor performance were delivered

Broadband Challenge through the use of faster clock

speeds and even ‘over clocking.’
While a time proven technique,
faster clocks mean more power Solutions Flow from a Steady
Cadence of Innovation
consumption and more heat, in
turn leading to larger packaging
and huge heat sinks that all con-
sume valuable real estate. The laws
ecosystem of suppliers. R&D, testing and But such rhythmic predictability and
of physics notwithstanding, this
integration would be greatly simplified. singularity of architecture doesn’t
strategy was running out of head- Entire product lines could scale from the preclude advancements in design. To
room and a new way forward was low end of the bandwidth spectrum all the the contrary, Intel architecture leads the
needed. way up to high volume boxes with a single industry in technological breakthroughs
Numerous systems have been development effort, creating software for maximizing performance and energy
reuse opportunities that reduces training efficiency. Technologies such as multi-
built with multi-processor designs
time and licensing fees for customers. core architecture and simultaneous
although they exacerbate the Time to market would be shorter, enabling multi-threading improve the number of
power challenges for little return in more products to be introduced at a faster instructions running simultaneously;
scalability (as we will see). The les- pace. Development costs would come built-in power management ensures
sons learned were not lost and the down. And so on. lowest possible energy use for the
workload; remote accessability enables
 Checking the network ‘weather’ lower latencies all the way to the concepts of using multiple process-
Increasingly telecom equipment These benefits are enjoyed by systems to be managed and maintained
forecast: The outlook is for data, user device. All this needs to be ing elements were applied inside manufacturers that standardize their from afar; and virtualization technology
manufacturers (TEMs) are being asked
more data and simply even more achieved while keeping capital rather than outside the chip in the to deliver systems that perform better, development on Intel architecture. allows customers to consolidate systems
data. Driven by smarter devices, equipment (CAPEX) and operation- development of new multi-core use less energy, and cost the same or And all manufacturers that retool their at higher utilization rates, improving
the growth and demand for new al costs (OPEX) as low as possible. processors to create a whole new less than the previous generation. There development model to use a single efficiency and making the best use of
are many factors at work here, but the processing architecture can enjoy resources.
applications and services continues Simply throwing more and more processing paradigm. the same. That’s because every Intel
bottom line is that service providers can’t
to accelerate across all sectors of equipment at the problem is not At the simplest level a multi- architecture-based microprocessor uses The challenges facing the communications
always recoup their costs associated with
the communications infrastructure. a viable solution. OPEX metrics core design embeds two or more bandwidth-hogging new devices. the same core computing architecture industry are significant and require
Traditional voice is taking a back at the carrier level must be kept cores within the same processor yet scales in performance and features a number of different solutions.
to meet the differing requirements of Manufacturers can do their part by
seat as our networks are flooded in line and ideally improved upon; packaging. In addition to the cores, TEMs that use traditional development
models find it difficult to meet such different systems and workloads. Such standardizing all systems on a single
with VoIP, more video and mixed therefore solutions must be more designers add a significant amount singularity of design enabling drop-in architecture – Intel architecture – meeting
demands. Think about it: most network
media traffic. Internet access is capable, intelligent and provide of support circuitry that further upgrades and your choice of a wide array network performance demand now and
elements today use different processing
now a standard feature for all new greater cost/performance efficien- enhances the performance and architectures to support different of speeds is unmatched in the industry. into the future while saving development
mobile devices, and with a slew of cies. Moving to platforms that power efficiency of multi-core e.g. workloads. This means TEMs must be costs. Many workloads. One architecture.
And these are benefits that you That’s Intel architecture.
new ‘net-enabled’ tablets, e-book implement processors using more integrated memory controllers and on top of a myriad of architectural
technologies, support multiple can expect to continue well into
readers and smart phones expect- than a single core is helping meet cache. These internal architectures the future, because Intel is the only This paper is for informational purposes only. THIS DOCUMENT
development teams, and feed many IS PROVIDED “AS IS” WITH NO WARRANTIES WHATSOEVER,
ed the outlook for more and more the needs of both performance allow for the signal interconnects ecosystems – multiples of everything silicon manufacturer to reliably deliver INCLUDING ANY WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY,
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cadence. Intel’s engineering model – ANY PROPOSAL, SPECIFICATION OR SAMPLE. Intel disclaims all
network equipment and service processors linked with intelligent faster (and with less power) as they development cycles. liability, including liability for infringement of any proprietary rights,
referred to internally as “tick-tock” relating to use of information in this specification. No license, express
providers this means further build software platforms are demonstrat- no longer need to travel off chip. or implied, by estoppel or otherwise, to any intellectual property rights
Now consider the potential benefits of – introduces new chip technology is granted herein.
out of networks with increased ing capabilities that can generate One of the key aspects of multi- at predictable intervals, giving
being able to develop all systems on the Intel, the Intel logo, and Xeon are trademarks of Intel Corporation in
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continued from page 5 theory, the greater the number of cate one or more cores to run the Faster, Smarter, Safer
processors and threads within the OS while freeing others to dedicate Software emerges as a key enabler of
core performance is their ability to application the greater the perfor- all their capabilities and resources the next-generation network
execute multiple tasks simultane- mance gain. In practice SMP rarely to a specific function e.g. packet Wind River Network
– Mark Guinther, Sr.Product Line Manager
ously. The technique is not new, delivers this level of scalability for processing. Now one can see how Acceleration Platform
but if each core has access to its two reasons. Firstly, most applica- multi-core implementations can The run-time software at the
own resources they can truly oper- tions, even today, are still written bring huge benefits to networking  The telecom and networking Wind River heart of the Wind River On-Board
ate independently. The majority with only one processor in mind applications as both control and industries are entering a new On-Board Program Program is Wind River Network
of manufacturers have also imple- due to the level of complexity data planes can easily coexist on phase to enable a rapidly Wind River is working with our Acceleration Platform. The platform
mented associated support code to involved. Secondly, no matter how the same system, board or even evolving connected world. The strategic hardware partners is a packet acceleration solution that
help optimize threading efficiency ‘threaded‘ the application there processor. Implementation for a rollout of 3G and 4G networks to bring greater value to our delivers ultrafast, best-in-class IP
e.g. Intel® Hyper-Threading (HT) is still a single OS instance and real world application may seem has opened up unlimited customers through highly packet forwarding performance for
Technology. Multiple processing before long the OS itself begins complex but operating environ- possibilities to a new wave of integrated and optimized network elements. The platform is
elements and multi threading tech- to consume all the resources as it ments now exist that provide all wireless connected devices, commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) a comprehensive, integrated bundle
niques provide the highest gains gets tied up trying to manage the the necessary elements to bring devices that connect people to systems. We’re taking COTS of Wind River’s industry-leading
when an application can be divided multiple threads. Dual processor together the combined benefits of people, people to machines, to a whole new level with the multi-core run-time technologies.
into logical chunks. This makes systems can derive some benefit multi-core and AMP. and machines to machines. The Wind River On-Board Program. It leverages asymmetrical
Wind River, the leader in embed- growing bandwidth and capacity This program pre-integrates our multiprocessing (AMP) to deliver
ded software and development demands and “always on” service breakthrough packet acceleration high performance control and
tools, have developed a solution level expectation on the network solution, Wind River Network data plane functionality in one
Getting the most from a multi-core system requires
specifically for packet processing. infrastructure requires equipment Acceleration Platform, optimized consolidated runtime environment.
a software architecture that knows best how to
The Wind River Network Accelera- providers to find new ways to for Intel multi-core processors, The platform yields IP packet
utilize the resource it has at its disposal.
tion Platform leverages multi-core build competitive products that with the latest ATCA hardware forwarding rates of 10.5 million
technology and AMP and is deliver faster performance and systems from the leading COTS packets per second on a single Intel
designed to provide linear perfor- smarter applications with safer board vendors: Advantech, Xeon 5400 core, five times the
multi-core system designs perfect from SMP but many believe that mance scalability. The platform and more secure content transfer. Emerson Network Power, performance of other approaches.
for networking applications where the returns diminish rapidly as bundles OS support for the control System and component Kontron, RadiSys, and others. Wind River Acceleration Platform
the control and data plane must run more processors are added with plane using either Wind River Linux suppliers to telecom equipment The whole of the parts, software, also offers the flexibility to leverage
in concert but independently. The four being a practical limit. SMP or VxWorks with specific data manufacturers (TEMs) and network the higher packet processing
data plane itself can gain a huge and multi-core architectures oper- plane acceleration software. Using equipment providers (NEPs) are performance to build in network
boost as it must manage numer- ate with similar limitations so to tools such as their lightweight individually taking advantage of intelligence and greater security.
ous, simultaneous instances as glean all the benefits of multi-core hypervisor, network application the latest technical advances. Off Equipment providers who want
fast as possible while allowing for and be able to achieve linear scal- specific elements can be loaded the shelf systems suppliers are to differentiate their products and
maximum scalability. ability an alternate approach comes onto individual cores and as more quickly moving to incorporate 10, deliver more value can now, in one
Getting the most from a multi- to the fore. cores are dedicated to the data 40, and even 100 Gigabit Ethernet system, design in new functionality
core system requires a software Asymmetrical multiprocess- plane, packet throughput perfor- interfaces to expand the capacity. click to enl arge for traffic management, quality of
architecture that knows best how ing (AMP) allows each core to mance increases proportionately. Multi-core processor suppliers and service, deep packet inspection,
to utilize the resource it has at operate singly or in groups each As the demand for network embedded software vendors are processors, and standards-based and other innovative applications.
its disposal. The most common independent of each other. Tasks, capacity and performance increas- moving in parallel to enable more hardware systems, creates a For more information about Wind
strategy for managing multiple or even complete applications es, multi-core can rise to meet the effective and intelligent packet powerful foundation to build highly River On-Board Program and Wind
processors is Symmetric Multi- can be bound to specific cores for challenge. Managed by asymmetri- processing. Great progress is being competitive network elements. River’s packet acceleration solution,
processing or SMP.  In the case processing. This has the benefit cal multiprocessing environments made, but the real advantage to With the Wind River On-Board visit www.windriver.com or call
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and IO resources, and controls all context switching for repetitive scalable applications to be created make the whole greater than the development within five minutes of
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Ecosystem Adaptation to all home-grown. Then the open

Accelerating Change standards revolution gave that

environment a swift kick that initi-
ated ecosystem changes that have
lead us to where we are today. The
 It was over 300 years ago that telecommunications and network- reason open standards had such an
John Donne wrote “No man is an ing ecosystems. The industry effect is clearly articulated by Erik
Island.” No matter how one wishes used to be dominated by large Sliman (OpenStandards.net). Meet Tomorrow’s
to interpret the writings of this
metaphysical poet one clear truism
monolithic entities such as AT&T
until they were forced to break up.
By reducing costs, speeding
time-to-market, and increasing
Network Demands
is our dependence on others and Even following the divestiture and market adoption and acceptance, • Reduce Network TCO
our environment. Such dependence products and services developed • Increase Revenue Opportunities
and indeed interdependence is around open standards benefit • Deliver new services faster–
exemplified within an ecosystem. Ecosystems evolve, from a higher Return on Investment with more flexibility and scalability
Most often defined in a biological change and adapt to their (ROI). They benefit from lower barri-
context, an ecosystem is a com- environment whether in ers to market entry created through
plex set of relationships of living a rain forest biome or decreased customer risk with
organisms functioning as a unit corporate conference room. vendor selection as the associa- C

and interacting with their physical tion of support and durability with M

environment. In a 1993 Harvard the individual vendor is transferred Y

Business Review article entitled creation of the “baby Bells” the instead to the pool of vendors sup- CM

“Predators and Prey: A New Ecolo- equipment industry was ruled by porting open standards.
4-to-1 WORKLOAD CONSOLIDATION
MY

gy of Competition” James F. More the tier 1 TEMs who had product Although many of the old tier 1 CY

defined the concept of a business portfolios all developed in-house. TEMs still exist in some form, the CMY

ecosystem. From hardware bus architectures landscape has changed drastically K

Applications Control Plane Packet Signal

An economic community to communications protocols and
& Services Processing Processing Procession
supported by a foundation of even operating systems - it was continued on page 11
interacting organizations and
individuals—the organisms of the
Intel® Architecture
business world. This economic
community produces goods and
services of value to customers, Packet Processing Performance
who are themselves members
of the ecosystem. The member Intel® Xeon® 5500 Processor
organizations also include suppliers,
lead producers, competitors, and 29x Increase
other stakeholders.
Ecosystems evolve, change and
Yesterday
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-
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ous adaptations to occur in the

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dependability for a broad range

of applications.
Reference Architectures
• SCOPE is an industry alliance
committed to accelerating the
Optimize Packet Processing Throughput
deployment of carrier grade
base platforms for service
with Advantech Intel® Xeon® 5600 Series Solutions
provider applications. Its Enabled by Wind River’s Network Acceleration Platform
mission is to help, enable Multi-core packet processing is poised to bring significant performance enhancements to the entire range of networking devices from
and promote the availability the network core to the end-user. Advantech is at the leading edge of multi-core networking platform design and manufacturing with a
of open carrier grade base scalable range of blades and systems based on Intel architecture enabling OEMs to build breakthrough solutions for enterprise, data
platforms based on Com- center and carrier networks. Wind River’s Network Acceleration Platform creates a new paradigm for packet processing and when
mercial Off The Shelf (COTS) optimized for Intel® Xeon® multi-core processor systems delivers a high performance platform for remarkable gains in packet processing
continued from page 9 Linux by marshaling the hardware / software and throughput and efficiency.
resources of its members and Free Open Source Software
Integrated MIC-532X Intel® Xeon® Processor 5600 Series Blades
and the whole market is depen- the open source development (FOSS) building blocks, and
Advantech’s MIC-5320 and MIC-5322 are single and dual processor Intel® Xeon® Processor
dant, to one extent or another, community to ensure Linux to promote interoperability to 5500/5600-based ATCA blades. They enable the performance available in an ATCA form
on fellow members of the eco- remains free and technically better serve Service Providers factor with up to 12-cores and 24-threads of processing power, low DDR3 memory latency,
system. In terms of underlying advanced. and consumers. fast PCI Express 2.0 bus and accelerated virtualization. The Intel® 82599 10 GbE controller
technology and supply chain, key • PICMG is a consortium of Interoperability Requirements plays a key role in end-to-end network performance and throughput to improve the entire
components are provided by what companies who collaboratively • The Communications Plat- data path with multi-core optimized queue support. For fast and secure applications, the
is known as the COTS ecosystem. develop open specifications forms Trade Association blade supports up to 48 GB of triple channel DDR3 with ECC. The flexibility of the Intel®
As was originally recognized by for high performance telecom- (CP-TA) is a global organiza- Xeon® 5600 Series allows tremendous upgradability, scalability and cost efficiency options.
More this ecosystem has multiple munications and industrial tion comprised of companies
levels of suppliers, customers and computing applications. PIC- dedicated to accelerating the FWA-6500 Intel® Xeon® Processor 5600 Series OEM-Ready Network Server
stakeholders all interlinked and con- MG’s purpose is to offer adoption of open specification- The core system design is the same as the MIC-5322, providing the highest performance possible with flexible and scalable port densities.
nected through a collection of open equipment vendors common based xTCA communications This simplifies portability of applications between the FWA-6500 and the ATCA-bladed environment. The key element for optimized
standards bodies. A model can be specifications, thereby increas- platforms through interoper- 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
viewed as a flow of product from ing availability and reducing ability compliance guidelines
pluggable, field replaceable Network Mezzanine Cards.
and member advocacy.
From the perspective of the Network Flexibility - Up to 8 x 10GbE or 32 x GbE
COTS ecosystem, customers
...the landscape has changed drastically and the The FWA-6500 offers any combination of four front loading Network
are both the equipment vendors
whole market is dependant, to one extent or Mezzanine Cards (NMC) including:
and service providers. The supply • 2-port SFP+ 10GbE NMC
another, on fellow members of the ecosystem.
side has multiple levels that build • 4-port RJ-45/SFP GbE NMC
upon each other to provide the • 8-port RJ-45/SFP GbE NMC
core platforms, based on the open
supplier to customer that is molded costs and time to market. standards, which are needed by 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
through the work of the standards Standards developed and the equipment vendors to create
adapt platforms to meet a wider range of customer performance and connectivity needs. The system is space-optimized for two 2.5"
organizations. One perspective maintained by PICMG include the solutions on which the carriers
SATA drives and two PCI-E add-on cards. IPMI 2.0 is fully integrated into the system for remote management, maintenance, and
shows three distinct layers of guid- AdvancedTCA, AMC, Compact- then provide service. The founda-
diagnostics.
ance and direction that are divided PCI, MicroTCA & PCI. tion of the supply chain is grounded
between five key organizations. • SA Forum focuses its efforts by the silicon vendors such as Intel Advantech’s platform approach allows OEMs to scale their solutions across a range of appliances, ATCA blades, and systems,
Technical product specifications on producing key specifications who have developed highly capable based on a common Intel architecture for seamless, multi-core software enablement.
• The Linux Foundation pro- to address the requirements More information on Advantech’s multi-core networking solutions
motes, protects and advances of availability, reliability and continued on page 13 can be found at
http://www.advantech.com/NC
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Wind River’s Mike Langlois discusses
Managing Telecom Network Demands
and Data Center Markets the increase in demand for data
processing power and information
5500 and 5600 series. At the next – Sven Freufenfeld, business de velopment, telecom storage. As a result, denser servers
level these processors need to be are being added to the existing Data
built onto blades and into systems  Wind River, a wholly owned subsidiary of Intel Corporation Centers of various companies so
which is where the leading build- is a world leader in embedded and mobile software. Wind  4G LTE Wireless AdvancedTCA. as to scale up the capacity. At the
ing block COTS vendors bring River has been pioneering computing inside embedded Market Growth Kontron is working with TEM cli- same time these data centers must
their value. Companies such as devices since 1981 and its technology is found in more than Among the different wireless ents to help migrate to 40GbE from spend less money on smaller, less
Advantech, , Emerson Network 500 million products. Wind River has created a structure that technologies, 4G LTE is widely con- 10GbE AdvancedTCA hardware power hungry, more performant and
Power, Kontron, Radisys, and oth- allows for both a product and industry focus. From the core, sidered to be the next heir apparent, platforms, which consist of vary- more easily virtualized technologies.
ers each have extensive portfolios to the edge, communications and networking infrastructure as 156 operators in 64 countries ing node blades such the Kontron An excellent way to achieve all
ranging from motherboards and has always been a key market for Wind River. To help address are currently investing in LTE net- AT8050 processor blade with either these objectives is through the
mezzanines through specialized the demands presented by the ongoing growth within the works, and have either made implementation of a multi-
computing and network processing competitive broadband marketplace Wind River is introducing strong commitments to deploy core server strategy. When
blades to complete platforms and a new paradigm for multi-core LTE systems or are already it comes to multi-core high
systems. Bringing it all together based high performance packet engaged in trials, as confirmed performance computing the
and providing one of the key prom- handling and is developing in the October 2010 Global Intel® Xeon® 5500 and 5600
ises of open systems – time to acceleration solutions based on mobile Suppliers Association processor series have feature
market, is the software layer of the their newly launched Network (GSA) report. Nearly 30 opera- sets that will enable all key
ecosystem. Wind River is an excel- Acceleration Platform. The man tors plan roll-outs before the data center objectives to be
lent example of how the software behind Wind River’s Telecom end of 2010. met.
players in the ecosystem optimize and Networking Business Service providers are investi- With significant experi-
their runtime and tools products strategy is General Manager and gating how to manage growth ence in high-performance
to provide operating systems, Vice President, Mike Langlois. in mobile data usage – up to server products using Intel
advanced networking technologies, We were able to spend some a possible 10,000% increase architecture AdvancedTCA
development environments and time with Mike and talked with per-capita across a five-year span Intel® Xeon® 5500 (Quad-Core) or blades and CompactPCI boards,
simulation and test architectures him about his vision and the – despite only moderate revenue 5600 (6-Core) Series Processors. Kontron has also introduced its first
(e.g. Wind River Network Accelera- direction that Wind River is increases. To remain profitable in This migration model avoids the server-class embedded mother-
tion Platform) that make application taking to spur innovation in this new environment, new strate- cost of fork lifting entire systems board, the KTC5520-EATX.
and solution development as easy this fast paced market sector. gies are required from their telecom and ensures TEMs can both protect Kontron also provides additional
as possible for the TEMs. equipment suppliers. their hardware capital expenses and value by integrating the different
The evolution begun through the Commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) make the changeover to 40GbE software components such as OS,
open standards revolution contin- Hello Mike, tell us a little that cover markets from CPE to hardware platforms is one business from 10GbE in line with a timetable BIOS and IPMI, and works with part-
ues on. The business ecosystems about your background and access, edge and core. I joined model that telecom equipment ven- that meets all the technical, cost, ners like Wind River to pre-validate
developed in support of the tele- how you came to Wind River. Wind River two and a half years dors have depended on to secure and revenue needs of their carrier ‘out-of-the-box’ software kits for
coms and networking industries are ago and was brought in to help a faster deployment of 3G wireless and service provider clients. faster application development. l
now well established and continue I spent the bulk of my career verticalize the company’s market network applications for their carrier
from strength to strength. To finish working for Nortel, creating tele- approach and run the network clients, and are looking to replicate Data Center Market For more information contact
where we started it is now true to com infrastructure products and and telecom segment direction this with 4G LTE solutions. This will Growth and Consolidation 1-888-294-4558 or
say that no company or product is services. My background gives and solution strategy. require higher system capacities with Multicores Info@us.kontron.com
an island and each is dependent on me a unique perspective as I than today’s 10GbE systems and, Data centers are getting bigger. The
the ecosystem that surrounds sup- have had firsthand experience consequently, the only standards- majority of analysts are all indicat-
ports and enables its success. l with products and technologies continued on page 15 based hardware offering 40GbE is ing positive increases for 2010

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they must harness it and provide packaged carrier grade security solution
intelligent packet handling enabling to accelerate time-to-market. The LTE
a different and enhanced consumer SEG is the industry’s first 3GPP NDS
valued experience. compliant security gateway to enable
both high performance firewall and
IPsec tunneling in a single carrier grade
How is Wind River working to solution. This high performance network
help address these challenges, element enables security in the wireless
what’s the vision? infrastructure and provides more than
5x performance improvement in secure
Wind River is in the ideal position Securing Mobile Network tunneling over current solutions. This
lowers both OPEX and CAPEX for mobile
to help enable the next genera-
Infrastructure
operators.
tion of telecom platform elements
The RadiSys
that will allow TEMs and service LTE SEG can be
providers to create and participate deployed as a
in the ‘Telco 2.0’ world . By help- standalone network
ing TEMs create platforms that can element, or

M
easily integrated
apply more ‘network intelligence’ ost major worldwide mobile network endpoints, shared facilities and as a turnkey
and capture the information assets operators have announced disgruntled employees are magnified blade solution
flowing through the networks, plans to migrate their networks in an all-IP environment. Operators into existing TEM
to Long Term Evolution (LTE), are also increasingly sharing cell sites products. Both
continued from page 13 a dramatic increase in demand for revenue can be generated not only an all-IP network that will increase and IP backhaul between network
more bandwidth driven by a traf- from the consumer of service but options provide
broadband capacity to support up to nodes and integrating femtocells and carrier grade high
Venkataraman Prasannan
GM, Communications
What are some of these fic shift towards data, media and by those that would wish to distrib- 10 times higher data rates and enable WiFi architectures alongside traditional availability with fault Networking
demands and challenges you specifically video. This will persist ute content in a context and user an abundance of new mobile applications. macrocells. With the explosion of mobile tolerant failover
As these IP-based telecom networks are devices and volume of mission critical
see facing the telecom market? for at least 10 years. This places relevant way. and are based on field-proven network
deployed, it is inevitable that mobile data being transmitted, these factors security software. In addition, the
further demand on the supply chain Wind River has built a capabil- operators will face new security threats. drive new security requirements in LTE. RadiSys solution enables 2G/3G mobile
ity in software called the Network
LTE networks are based on all-IP networks The 3GPP Network Domain Security network offload solutions—including
Acceleration Platform (NAP). It femtocells, I-WLAN and UMA/GAN—by
and do not have the same inherent (NDS) standard requires a security
...service providers are experiencing a dramatic increase allows existing applications to security as current TDM/ATM networks. gateway to secure the connections securely backhauling voice, data and
in demand for more bandwidth driven by a traffic run faster and smarter through The flat LTE topology provides a direct video traffic via IPsec tunnels over the
public Internet.
shift towards data, media and specifically video. the use of packet inspection and route from cell sites to the network core,
The RadiSys LTE SEG is a security gateway
comprehension of content that can creating the possibility for Denial-of- purpose built for LTE deployments Network security is important for LTE
Service (DoS) attacks and interception of equipment vendors because the scope
lead to differentiated services e.g. user communications. The LTE architecture
There has been a huge market shift i.e. our customers, the TEMs, who Standard vs. High Definition video. of potential breaches is large, the
pushes more mobility function out to the between network elements in different technology is complex and engineers
over the last 5-10 years. We have must build much more aggressive, We have built a software platform cell sites, enabling hackers to potentially domains or using “untrusted” commu- with relevant security expertise are
seen steady, single digit, growth high capacity products, faster than with extremely high capacity and disrupt service and bring down larger nications links–typically between cell scarce and expensive. RadiSys has
portions of the network. LTE networks sites and the packet core. The RadiSys
since the bubble burst in 2001 and they ever have before. The service low latency laid on a foundation responded to its TEM customers’ request
have more small and distributed cell LTE SEG is a security gateway purpose for carrier grade security by delivering a
today approx $230 Billion of the providers are OK doing this but it that adopts multi-core processing sites, which are difficult and costly to built for LTE deployments. This solution purpose-built solution to address these
$1 Trillion spent by consumers and does lead to challenge #2. They technologies. It will be impossible physically protect against criminal activity. is a response to telecom equipment security issues associated with the all-IP
business goes to the equipment can deal with network build out but to deal with this packet explosion Security threats resulting from untrusted manufacturers’ (TEM) requests for a architecture. WWW.RADISYS.COM
companies who are our Wind River how do they get paid for that sig- without adopting multi-core in both
customer base. The makeup of this nificant investment of CAPEX and wireless and wireline infrastruc-
equipment has changed and contin- OPEX? They have to add more val- ture. We are building NAP in a BENEFITS OF COMMERCIAL-OFF-THE-SHELF (COTS) LTE SEG:
ues to do so as the trend shows a ue and be able to increase ARPUs way where our customers can get Highest performance firewall and IPsec — handles exponential data increases
move in spending away from voice accordingly. They have a significant optimization and choice from the Complete Tunnel Terminating Gateway (TTG) solution — saves development time
and towards IP broadband data. We assets in the network knowledge silicon community. Designed to 3GPP Network Domain Security (NDS) standards — compatible with
see two primary challenges. Firstly itself and in the information that other equipment
service providers are experiencing flows through their network and continued on page 17 Pre-integrated ATCA blade — reduces cost of external appliances

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creates a performance plateau. We help with the adoption of their Computing. This is an exciting time advantage, Emerson’s blade can mount server-based solutions for server-class applications. l
have adopted an AMP (Asymmetric solutions as well. We figure this and we expect to see a significant be a more cost-effective solu- commercial IT applications that
Multiprocessing) architecture which will save our customers a couple of number of boards supported by the tion for applications that require store, process and forward large
is up to 30 times faster. Using a months for new projects. end of this year with the roll out less memory as lower capacity, amounts of data where reliability or
Wind River executive (WRE) on continuing through the early part of lower cost DIMMs can be used to bill-per-minute are critical.
each core and our ‘hypervisor,’ that With respect to the COTS 2011 and beyond. achieve the same overall memory For applications that need to bal-
can control many many cores, you vendors, how will we see sup- capacity as other blades that have ance performance with on-board
can run a payload at full throttle port for the new Wind River Nap and the on board program
through each core in parralel and solutions such as the Network is a huge leap forward for cots,
the system will scale in a linear Acceleration Platform across the how do you see this evolving in
fashion. The whole solution we hardware vendor ecosystem? the near future?
put together is industry unique and
very powerful … We work closely with our hardware Many of the COTS board vendors
partners to ensure we can achieve add a lot of their own market or
That sounds like a lot of broad support and we have pro- application specific intellectual
work isn’t that going to cesses in place to ensure BSPs property to their standards-based
increase application complex- (Board Support Packages) and soft- systems. In the near future, I see
ity and make it more time ware integration happens before the board vendors leveraging the
consuming to develop? key silicon and boards hit the performance and built-in control
market. In earlier times there could and data plane capabilities in NAP
In fact it’s actually the opposite often have been a 3-6 months lag to innovate and build more differ-
situation as we have done all the from when a board came out to entiated products for high growth
work to make it easier and have being fully supported. Now we aim market segments like video,
built a complete starter kit solution. to have everything working out of security, LTE, and perhaps even
It’s true that a typical solution like the box with the board ready to run emerging markets like Machine to
this could take days or weeks just with the BSP in place and also all Machine. l

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