Motorola, Wind River form alliance

BANGALORE, INDIA: Motorola and Wind River Systems have partnered to provide integrated AdvancedTCA (ATCA and MicroTCA communication platforms with Carrier Grade Linux and VxWorks runtimes.

Motorola’s embedded communications computing business and Wind River will work together to deliver bundled hardware and software solutions for next-generation networking designs for the telecom, military and aerospace, medical and industrial automation industries.

The companies will also provide joint customer support, as well as collaborate on product development and on driving joint value for industry initiatives such as OpenSAF high availability software, virtualization technologies and development environments for multicore processors.

“Collaborating with an industry leader like Wind River demonstrates Motorola’s commitment to extend the benefits of leading-edge, multicore technologies such as MicroTCA and AdvancedTCA to our joint customers,” said Stephen Dow, vice president and general manager, Embedded Communications Computing, Motorola, Inc.

“We look forward to strengthening our relationship with a respected industry leader such as Motorola. Through our alliance, we expect to provide our customers with access to leading edge technology as well as a simplified path for them to adopt COTS hardware and software solutions,” said Venkatesh Kumaran, country manager India, Wind River.

The first bundled solution, a MicroTCA-based COTS solution with Wind River Carrier Grade Linux, is now available. Other solutions including the ATCA-9301 Cavium Octeon-based solution would be available later this year.