Wind River, Motorola expand on collaboration

BANGALORE: Embedded software provider, Wind River Systems, Inc. and mobile

technology leader, Motorola, Inc. have expanded their Center of Excellence

co-development technology initiative for processors that implement the PowerPC

architecture. 

The press release stated, "The collaboration has been expanded to

provide Wind River’s leading software support for Motorola’s S1 family of

network security processors, with the two companies teaming up to deliver the

market’s first off-the-shelf embedded development solution for

hardware-accelerated encryption of network traffic. "

The optimized hardware-software offering is designed to enable customers to

quickly develop secure network applications in markets such as cable and DSL

modems, broadband access points in SOHO-gateways and routers, as well as network

edge access concentrators.

"Demand for new Internet devices is also creating huge demand for

increased security. This expanded agreement will offer developers the most

comprehensive network security solutions to-date, including support options for

our WindNet IPsec customers," said Wind River India country manager Ajit

Edlabadkar. "Together Wind River and Motorola can give developers the

security they demand along with the benefit of shorter time-to-market, longer

time-in-market, and the ability to come away ahead of their competition."