Wind River®, a global leader in providing software for mission-critical intelligent systems, today announced improved automation at scale designed to help communications service providers (CSPs) support the growth of 5G-enabled services at the edge. Announcing enhancements to Wind River Studio.
“Demands for speed, bandwidth, and ultra-low latency support to handle 5G-enabled services at the intelligent edge are increasing. For operators to effectively meet these requirements, extensive automation will be required. It’s becoming a reality,” said Paul Miller, Wind River Chief Technology Officer. “In response to our customers’ growing needs for automated deployments and upgrades, the latest enhancements to Wind River Studio significantly reduce upgrade and maintenance times while reducing the need for increasingly manual parallel operations. New opportunities will be created. Additionally, carriers will be able to better optimize power usage and enjoy new energy efficiencies.”
Wind River Studio’s latest product features enable advanced operations at scale.
- Wind River Studio Cloud Platform upgrade time has been reduced by 50% and Kubernetes upgrade time has been reduced by 65%. Provide customers with superior overall operational efficiency
- Enhanced automation Provides integrated intent-driven functionality for upgrading Studio components, storage systems, and Kubernetes.
- Significant reduction in upgrade campaign period Through parallelization of centrally managed upgrades/updates across the network
- Verification, auditing and monitoring functions Ensure that your infrastructure and environment are ready to accept deployments, updates, or upgrades to eliminate avoidable deployment and update failures.
- Improving energy efficiency New analytics and configurations to optimize power usage with finer granularity with per-CPU, per-core power settings, and new power metric visualizations available in third-party cloud-native network functions (CNFs) and Studio applications. functionality is released.
As CSPs move to 5G cloud RAN, they face myriad challenges in hosting virtualized and containerized network functions in highly complex, distributed, and heterogeneous communications cloud deployments. These networks require new skills to automate, scale, and manage them. Increasing automation and standardization will be key to realizing the full potential of service-based 5G architectures. The latest Wind River Studio features improve automation of large-scale deployments and operations from day 0 to day 2. Wind River can help greatly simplify the user experience during the upgrade process, reduce integration costs, reduce opportunities for human error, and ultimately improve scalability, reliability, and performance.
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