Why did Verizon and Vodafone adopt windsliver for 5G VRANs?| Business network.jp

"First, we aim to make 5G vRAN the de facto standard. In the future, edge systems that require mission-critical and intelligent processing, such as centralized management of industrial robots in factories, autonomous driving of vehicles, and operation management of drones. It will be widely used in the industry,” said Junichi Aoki, director of Wind River's sales and engineering department, predicting the development of the edge cloud platform "Wind River Studio", which was announced to be available in Japan in March. Wind River Systems is a California-based software vendor with 40 years of experience in embedded systems. The company's real-time OS "VxWorks" and commercial embedded Linux "Wind River Linux" hold top shares in their respective product fields (according to VDC Research, based on sales). Edge cloud is a field that Wind River, a long-established embedded OS company, is focusing on as a new pillar of its business.

Mr. Junichi Aoki, Wind River Sales and Engineering Director

"Systems that require high security, safety, and reliability, which we have been good at, will not stand alone, but will create new value by connecting them with AI and other technologies through 5G networks. We call this an intelligent edge system, but in order to realize it, we need an infrastructure that can bundle geographically distributed devices and manage the whole from a bird's-eye view while maintaining high availability," says Aoki. says Mr. Wind River Studio is the evolution of Wind River's portfolio of edge cloud and platform products to address all phases of the lifecycle: development, deployment, operations and service. Two product groups are provided: "Developer Capabilities" for developers and "Operator Capabilities" for telecommunications carriers who operate systems. Developer Capabilities is an edge cloud system development toolkit ( CI/CD pipeline). “For security measures and to respond to market needs, edge clouds need to be updated frequently.Unlike embedded systems, which are often used once they are in operation, agile systems incorporate feedback from the market and make modifications. A good development environment is important.” (Mr. Aoki)