Raisecom accelerates its NFV transformation with Wind River

Realising that the development of a high-performance NFV platform for their gateways would be too costly and time-consuming, Raisecom turned to Wind River. Using 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 virtualised network functions to open new revenue opportunities and improve flexibilities and efficiencies,” said Sandy Guo, carrier account Director, Raisecom. “Service providers require ‘five nines’ reliability. Our hardware products meet that standard and our virtualised 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.”

"In order to meet the demands for greater network flexibility, adaptability and scalability possible with NFV, virtualised 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 virtualisation to allow the industry to easily and quickly achieve goals such as reducing costs while introducing high-value services via NFV.”

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 industry may 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 telecomm networks. Based on technologies using open standards, including carrier grade Wind River Linux, real-time Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM), carrier grade plugins for OpenStack, Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK), and accelerated vSwitch technologies and optimised for Intel architecture, Titanium Server brings together high performance and carrier grade reliability.

Titanium Server is part of the Wind River Helix portfolio of products enabling IoT advancements, from the secure and managed intelligent devices at the edge, through gateways, across the network, and up into the cloud. Additionally, through the Wind River Titanium Cloud programme, Wind River provides an ecosystem that helps ensure the availability of optimised, interoperable solutions that accelerate time-to-market for service providers and telecomm equipment manufacturers deploying NFV infrastructure.