Network Infrastructure

Networking Equipment Providers and Telecommunications Equipment Manufacturers (TEMs and NEPs) in their transition to all-IP networks are facing challenges identical to those found in enterprise data center computing, including:

  • Making optimal use of available hardware resources
  • Load balancing, active application migration, fault containment, and rapid failover
  • Migrating legacy applications to blade-based systems
  • Providing robust response to security threats that include denial of service and other network-based exploits, buffer overflow (and other zero day exploits), and containment of malicious and/or dysfunctional program code

For applications at both the core and the edge of the network, Open Kernel Labs provides the ideal system-level platform to support virtualized hosting and execution of management plane, control plane, and even data plane applications built on prior-generation UNIX systems, Carrier Grade Linux, RTOSes, and other enterprise and embedded software platforms.

Open Kernel Labs OKL4 helps systems architects and integrators meet needs for carrier-grade system resilience and scalability by providing:

  • Superior security and robustness from hardware-enforced virtual machines or partitions
  • Hardware support for 32- and 64-bit network processors, SoCs, FPGAs, and application processors based on ARM and MIPS cores
  • Transparent and scalable utilization of multiple processor cores on a blade and blades in a rack or cluster
  • Short path for retargeting legacy code to next-generation hardware and software platforms
  • User space non-privileged execution of all guest OSes and other software
  • Ability to host and segregate trusted and untrusted execution environments for worry-free integration of device OEM and third-party code
  • Rapid restart of guest OSes and applications for fast failover of critical communications code
  • Robust, secure, and high performance communication among guest operating systems and applications
  • Isolation of open source code and closely held IP to meet contractual obligations and regulatory requirements

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