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MontaVista’s approach to embedded commercialization has been elegantly simple; integrate, improve, and harden a customer-defined solution to be the best in class open source technology. For over a decade MontaVista has been the world’s premier provider of open source services to customize a solution, accelerate deployments, and reduce maintenance cost for our customers.

Routing and Packet Acceleration:

It is not new news that the networking and telecom industries are experiencing an unprecedented growth in data traffic that shows no sign of slowing down and that today’s infrastructure is causing issues with their customers. In addition to more processing power, there is a strong desire to go green, save energy and manage usage of equipment more effectively and efficiently.

Utilizing MontaVista’s Bare Metal Engine capabilities within a Linux Container, one of the multiple Virtualization options offered, can provide a powerful and very effective solution.

MontaVista’s BME has been proven to produce over 99% efficiencies of the cycles within the BME environment delivering high performance of the application and maximum efficiencies of the processor and significant improvements over a native Linux stack. Using pure Linux rather than proprietary virtualization technics also improves time-to-market and reducing risk. The use of multi-core SOC allows consolidation of devices and applications into a single environment so better controlling costs and optimizing performance of all aspects of the solution, hardware and software.

More details on BME, with specific use cases and performance discussions in the following white papers located in the download section: -
“More Than Just Virtualization” and “Beyond Virtualization”

Migration of Legacy Applications:

Many of today’s applications are working well today and a re-write would not yield much improvement from a software efficiency perspective. Additionally many development shops are over-loaded writing new applications so there is also a lack of time for the re-write. However, the hardware it is running on currently can, and in some cases, should be updated, so you can take advantage of the new multi-core systems enabling companies to take advantage of the ability to consolidate multiple applications onto one machine and the power savings available with the new systems.

Companies have significant equity and assets tied up in existing software that is still working and making money for them. The challenge comes in migrating these applications to make use of the performance and power of the new multi-core systems.

So it’s either an intensive migration these applications to be multi-core friendly to utilize the new multi-core CPUs or you can take a purely software approach using the appropriate virtualization technique.

Using these unmodified applications in a virtualized environment will extend the life of applications by consolidating applications onto single systems or driving them faster but more efficiently in the virtualized partition.

More details on the options available from MontaVista around KVM and Containers the following white papers located in the download section are available: -
“More Than Just Virtualization” and “Beyond Virtualization”

Software Defined Networks

The demands on today’s networks are changing rapidly and in cloud infrastructures, these demands are instantaneous. An emerging option is the developments around technologies and standards to create Software Defined Networks.

In this emerging architectural design we see the decoupling of the control plane and data plane within the network switch and routers, physically separating the network OS from the switch. The control plane being implemented in software and these control plane servers will manage multiple data plane systems, fundamentally centralizing the control plane functions. It also allows for the implementation of the data plane devices into more commodity network equipment and standards based open network architecture with OpenFlow as the standard for managing the packet flow. This new Software Defined Network, SDN, creates a more flexible architecture that promises reduced opex and with the centralized control plane automation of policy management eliminates manual configuration. Now one centralized device can manage a widely distributed network and can provision and service more effectively and efficiently.

MontaVista’s Virtualization capabilities can deliver all the features you need to design and implement a robust yet flexible environment. Maximizing flexibility with dynamic containers that expand and contract as performance is needed, implementing BME for critical applications.