Sun and Wind River are providing the networking industry with a fully integrated, optimized and tested solution of the industry's leading multi-core processing hardware and CGL, enabling companies to quickly develop and deploy next-generation networking applications.

"The combination of Sun's enterprise class UltraSPARC CMT platforms and Wind River's Carrier Grade Linux gives telecom and networking system developers a new and significantly superior vehicle for delivering their most mission critical applications to enterprise and service provider customers", stated Mike Knudsen, vice president, Sun OEM.

"Implementing high-performance multicore processing solutions into networking elements offers many benefits to telecom and networking equipment providers", stated Mike Langlois, general manager of the Networking and Telecommunications Business Unit at Wind River. "By leveraging an integrated solution like Sun's UltraSPARC T2 and Wind River's multicore-aware Linux and development tools, equipment providers can develop sophisticated applications that fully exploit the use of each core for ultimate performance, cost and throughput efficiency."

Today's announcement highlights the openness of Sun's CMT platform and substantially expands the range of embedded system applications that can be served with Sun's CMT technology. It also brings the benefits of Sun's CMT processors, such as low power per thread, integrated crypto functionality, dual on-board 10 gigabit Ethernet (GbE) network interface units, and industry standard bus interconnect technology, to a wide range of embedded system applications such as load balancing, routing, security and application acceleration.