Innovation and TCO Savings
with Wind River Studio
Learn about the key features of Wind River Studio that drive value for communications service providers (CSPs) moving to Open RAN.
Wind River Studio: Engineered for Open RAN Success
Open RAN could save up to 30% in total cost of operations (TCO) if built with the components that Wind River® Studio provides.
Studio has been proven in live deployments at scale. Its foundational components include a container-based distributed cloud platform and full-stack analytics, plus automation and orchestration.
Here is a sample of some of the unique and innovative features our customers rely on to keep down their TCO.
Key Differentiators: Innovation and TCO Savings
- CPU utilization / hardware footprint
- Infrastructure orchestration
- Power consumption savings
- Scalability with zero touch
- Zero-touch deployment of distributed cloud
- Distributed software patches and upgrades
- Distributed cloud solution
- Reliability / high availability
- Ultra-low latency (out of the box)
- PTP configurations (out of the box)
CPU Utilization and Hardware Footprint
Studio has the lowest resource requirement in the market, with only two physical cores needed for the control plane. Optimizations will enable Studio to run on a single core on 4th Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors.
Studio can also operate on a single all-in-one node that includes control, storage, and worker.
Benefits/areas of applicability:
- Efficient hardware server dimensioning
- Power savings
- RAN software optimization
Infrastructure Orchestration
Wind River supports the complete end-to-end lifecycle management of infrastructure (O-Cloud) and O-RAN services in a single solution.
Integration between Wind River Studio Conductor and the hardware manager is used to implement the correct hardware configuration (BIOS firmware).
Benefits/areas of applicability:
- OpEx reduction
- Time-to-market acceleration
- Minimized human error
Power Consumption Savings
Wind River is the only CaaS provider demonstrating the ability to reduce power consumption by up to 12%. (This demonstration was performed with O-RAN Alliance ecosystem members at the recent O-RAN PlugFest.)
Benefits/areas of applicability:
- Continuous verification of power savings initiatives for O-RAN deployment
- Ability to identify KPIs and the tools to measure
- Benchmark for comparison with other RAN and hardware vendors
Scalability with Zero Touch
With Studio you can dynamically scale out the infrastructure (adding worker nodes) with no impact on the existing service(s). Scale from an all-in-one single server (AIO-SX) to a distributed cloud.
Benefits/areas of applicability:
- Hardware server dimensioning
- Power savings
- RAN software optimization
Zero-Touch Deployment of Distributed Cloud
Wind River is the only CaaS provider that can zero-touch provision a whole distributed cloud using an integrated orchestration framework.
You can execute deployment of a distributed cloud from an orchestrator and deploy a system controller and subclouds with a single click.
Benefits/areas of applicability:
- OpEx reduction
- Time-to-market acceleration
- Minimized human error
Distributed Software Patches and Upgrades
Wind River is the only CaaS provider with the ability to execute patches and upgrades from a central location. Zero-touch operations are also possible.
Benefits/areas of applicability:
- OpEx reduction
- Time-to-market acceleration
- Minimized human error
Distributed Cloud Solution
Benefit from full cloud-native distributed cloud capabilities (not just distributed compute). And service is available even during any communication failure between the central site and cell site.
Benefits/areas of applicability:
- Hardware server dimensioning
- Power savings
- RAN software optimization
Reliability and High Availability
Use the lowest number of servers required to implement a high-availability solution, due to efficient hardware utilization capabilities and unique hyper-converged cloud architecture. You can benefit from high availability with as few as two nodes.
Benefits/areas of applicability:
- Hardware server dimensioning
- Power savings
- RAN software optimization
Ultra-Low Latency out of the Box
Studio gives you out-of-the-box (i.e., ready for use from Day 0) ultra-low latency without further need for customizations or development. The low-latency kernel satisfies O-RAN low-latency requirements.
Benefits/areas of applicability:
- Hardware server dimensioning
- RAN software optimization
PTP Configurations out of the Box
Precision Time Protocol capabilities are available out of the box (i.e., ready for use from Day 0) without further need for customization or development.
Benefits/areas of applicability:
- Hardware server dimensioning
- RAN software optimization