Wind River has been providing open source–based operating system and infrastructure platforms for RAN networks, such as UMTS and LTE, for over ten years. As 5G continues to roll out, Wind River wants to ensure alignment with its open source platform infrastructure products and O-RAN.
“As the need for more advanced services grows to meet the needs of 5G, it is important to work across the industry to support increasingly open architectures and standardised interfaces for greater interoperability,” said Glenn Seiler, vice president of open source strategy at Wind River. “We look forward to continuing our work to help the industry develop the intelligent foundation needed for the next generation of telecommunications.”
Founded by telecommunications operators, the O-RAN Alliance is committed to innovating radio access networks (RAN) built on virtualised network elements, white box hardware, and standardised interfaces. With greater standardisation and as interfaces become more open, this can accelerate RAN innovation and lower network costs.
As an infrastructure provider, Wind River will focus on O-RAN workgroups where it can make key contributions, such as the Cloudification and Orchestration Workgroup and the White Box Hardware Workgroup.
