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, virtualisation technologies and development environments for multicore processors.
Commenting on the alliance, Stephen Dow, vice president and general manager, embedded communications computing, Motorola, Inc., said, “The partnership enables us to offer our customers a choice of the best components from third -party software providers, illustrating the strength and maturity of the xTCA ecosystem.”
“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. Implementing fully tested, integrated and validated solutions from Motorola and Wind River will help our joint customers to accelerate application development for next-generation Linux and VxWorks networking platforms,” 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 through Arrow Electronics, Inc. and Avnet Applied Computing Solutions. Other solutions including the ATCA-9301 Cavium Octeon-based solution are expected to be available later this year. |
