Telefónica Selects Wind River Titanium Cloud Virtualization Platform for UNICA Initiative

Wind
River^®, a leader in delivering IoT software to critical
infrastructure, announced today that Telefónica
has completed their validation in their NFV Reference Lab of Wind
River Titanium Cloud as a Virtualized Infrastructure Manager (VIM)
for NFV workloads, in line with the multi VIM paradigm of their UNICA
initiative. Titanium Cloud is an ultrareliable, deployment-ready
virtualization software platform, fully compatible with open standards
such the Open Source MANO (OSM) orchestration project.

In recent months, the Telefónica UNICA network virtualization project
has further concentrated efforts to advance edge cloud compute use cases
such as virtual RAN (vRAN), Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) and 5G
applications.

“By working with network innovators such as Telefónica, Wind River can
help the industry address evolving market needs and deploy
highly-reliable cloud compute at the optimum edge locations for a wide
range of new applications,” said Michael Krutz, Chief Product Officer at
Wind River. “Wind River Titanium Cloud delivers a flexible and secure
cloud-based infrastructure that can be efficiently deployed at any
network location from the edge to the core.”

“5G applications will increasingly demand low latency, and computing
will often need to happen much closer to the end device. It was
important to select an infrastructure platform that was optimized for
edge use cases,” said Javier Gavilan, Core Network, Platforms &
Transport Director at Telefónica. “After careful and comprehensive
evaluation, Wind River Titanium Cloud stood out for its unique
differentiators, such as extreme low latency and high reliability, to
effectively meet the technical challenges that accompany Telco cloud
compute.”

Telefónica’s communications services and operations span Europe and
Latin America, and its UNICA initiatives have begun to deploy in
numerous countries in those regions. The UNICA project was initiated in
2015 with the purpose of shifting the way telecommunications networks
are designed and installed using virtualization technologies, and
extracting the maximum benefits from network functions virtualization
(NFV), software defined networking (SDN) and cloud technologies.

Working closely with Wind River, Telefónica conducted a multi-phase
evaluation that included comprehensive functional testing of the
Titanium Cloud virtualization platform. Test teams also validated the
integration of Titanium Cloud with OSM orchestration to prove
interoperability. Additionally, Telefónica is running use case trials,
including testing virtual RAN solutions hosted on Titanium Cloud.

The Titanium
Cloud portfolio comprises a fully integrated, reliable, and
deployment-ready virtualization platform that enables service providers
to deploy virtualized services faster, at lower cost, and with high
uptime. Titanium Cloud provides an ideal software infrastructure for the
rigorous demands of critical infrastructure applications such as
telecommunications networks and industrial control. Through the Titanium
Cloud ecosystem, Wind River collaborates with industry-leading suppliers
of hardware and software products to validate the proper and optimal
operation of multi-vendor solutions that address important end-to-end
use cases like vRAN and MEC.

About Wind River

Wind River is a global leader in delivering software for the Internet of
Things. The company’s technology has been powering the safest, most
secure devices in the world since 1981 and is found in more than 2
billion products. Wind River offers a comprehensive portfolio, supported
by world-class global professional services and support and a broad
partner ecosystem. Wind River software and expertise are accelerating
digital transformation of critical infrastructure systems that demand
the highest levels of safety, security, performance, and reliability. To
learn more, visit Wind River at www.windriver.com.

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