Wind River, which was acquired by Intel last June, claims that this level of performance is "more than five times" that of the same hardware running native Linux in symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) mode.
The announcement of the Network Acceleration Platform was made Tuesday at the combined Embedded Systems Conference and Multicore Expo in San José, California.
The operating system used in the control plane of Wind River's network acceleration engine is either Wind River Linux or VxWorks. The platform's data plane runs on the lightweight Wind River Executive OS. The combination of that small-footprint OS and the company's multicore-optimized networking protocol software that enables iPv4/iPv6 packet forwarding, a Wind River spokeswoman told The Reg, adds up to the platform's packet-acceleration engine.
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