Motorola, Wind River ink strategic pact

Motorola and Wind River Systems announced on Tuesday that they have formed a strategic alliance designed to provide integrated end-to-end framework that addresses the full spectrum of high availability of telecom applications.

The two communication platform, AdvancedTCA and MicroTCA, with carrier grade linux and VxWorks runtimes would work to help its various clients.

Through this agreement, Motorola's embedded communications computing business and Wind River will work together to deliver bundled hardware and software solutions for next-generation

networking designs for the telecom, military and aerospace, medical and industrial automation industries, a joint release said.

The companies also will provide joint customer support, as well as collaborate on product development and on driving joint value for industry initiatives such as OpenSAF high availability software, virtualisation technologies and development environments for multicore processors, it said.