According to Wind River, via the showcase of its joint virtualized small cell gateway technology, China Mobile and Wind River have demonstrated the feasibility of creating high-performance, high-available data plane virtual network functions (VNFs) at a considerably lower cost and with greatly improved flexibility. The virtualized small cell gateway solution features the ASTRI Small Cell Gateway as a VNF on Wind River Titanium Server, running on the Intel® Xeon® processor. In addition to this, both companies have also developed a C-RAN solution for NFV deployment.
Wind River and China Mobile have joined forces on multiple Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) projects. The collaboration includes a new NFV test lab as well as the development of virtualized small cell gateway and cloud radio access network (C-RAN) solutions. The partnership is designed to help the industry to start rolling out NFV deployments and reduce time-to-market and operating expenses (OPEX).
China Mobile's OPNFV open source project which focuses on accelerating NFV through an integrated, open platform provides a diverse hardware and software infrastructure for open standards-based testing and integration, including Wind River's Titanium Server software.
Data traffic is pushing networks to their limits and operators are looking to deploy NFV technologies for flexible deployment of network applications and services. The complexities around NFV are multi-faceted, and in order to make real progress, it is essential to collaborate with industry leaders like China Mobile. Wind River Titanium Server delivers carrier grade virtualization for NFV infrastructure, helping to enable service providers to gain new flexibility, scalability, and operational cost and energy benefits.
Dr. Chih-Lin I, Chief Scientist, China Mobile Research Institute
With Wind River’s help, we successfully developed an industry-first virtualized C-RAN base station baseband processing unit (BBU) pool prototype that supports dynamic full carrier live migration while satisfying the stringent real-time requirement of a complete LTE protocol stack.
