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 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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