Motorola and Wind River join hands

Bangalore



August 8th, 2007

Motorola and Wind River Systems have announced that they have formed a

strategic alliance designed to provide integrated AdvancedTCA (ATCA) and

MicroTCA communication platforms with Carrier Grade Linux and VxWorks runtimes.

Through this agreement, Motorola's embedded communications computing business

and Wind River will work together to deliver bundled hardware and software

solutions for next-generation networking designs for the telecom, military and

aerospace, medical and industrial automation industries. The companies also will

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, virtualization technologies and development environments

for multicore processors.

"Collaborating with an industry leader like Wind River demonstrates

Motorola's commitment to extend the benefits of leading-edge, multicore

technologies such as MicroTCA and AdvancedTCA to our joint customers," said

Stephen Dow, VP and GM, Embedded Communications Computing, Motorola, Inc.

"It also 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."

"We look forward to strengthening our relationship with a respected

industry leader such as Motorola. 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," said Venkatesh

Kumaran, Country Manager India at Wind River. "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."

The first bundled solution, a MicroTCA-based COTS solution with Wind River

Carrier Grade Linux, is now available through leading global distributors 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.