Raisecom Accelerates Its NFV Transformation with Wind River

Wind River announces that networking equipment manufacturer Raisecom has chosen Wind River Titanium Server to develop virtualized small cell gateways.

As a sheer gateway into NFV, Raisecom is virtualizing small cell gateway functions. Traditionally, development of a high-performance NFV platform for gateways is expensive and time consuming through Titanium Server as an NFV infrastructure platform, Raisecom reduced product testing and qualification costs by 20% compared to testing costs for traditional small cell gateway hardware, while decreasing time to market by 30%.

“The telecommunications industry is making the move towards virtualized network functions to open new revenue opportunities and improve flexibilities and efficiencies,” said Sandy Guo, carrier account director at Raisecom. “Service providers require ‘five nines’ reliability. Our hardware products meet that standard and our virtualized products must meet that requirement as well. Thanks to Wind River, we were able to quickly transition into NFV and get to market faster with a better product, and at a lower cost to our customers.”

Titanium Server is a carrier grade NFV infrastructure software solution designed to meet the stringent “always on” requirements of the telecom industry. By using Titanium Server, the company claims that the industry can enjoy the best of both worlds: the rapid service deployment typically found in enterprise networks along with the carrier grade uptime and reliability mandated by telecom networks.

In order to meet the demands for greater network flexibility, adaptability, and scalability possible with NFV, virtualized services must be delivered at carrier grade levels of performance and reliability,” said Paul Senyshyn, vice president of commercial operations for networking solutions at Wind River. “Wind River Titanium Server delivers an NFV infrastructure that provides the carrier grade virtualization to allow the industry to easily and quickly achieve goals such as reducing costs while introducing high-value services via NFV.”

Through the Wind River Titanium Cloud program, Wind River provides an ecosystem that helps ensure the availability of optimized, interoperable solutions that accelerate time-to-market for service providers and telecom equipment manufacturers deploying NFV infrastructure.