Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.
Smart Networks Alliance
Solutions Brief
FEATURING
WIND RIVER SYSTEMS
Freescale Semiconductor, Inc...
COMPLETE CONTROL AND FORWARDING
PLANE INTEGRATION WITH WIND RIVER
TMS AND MOTOROLA鈥橲 NETWORK
PROCESSOR DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT
Networking products typically partition functionality so
that fast-path forwarding and packet/cell processing run
in an optimized environment (such as Motorola鈥檚 network
processors), and less time critical functionality (like
signalling, routing stacks, and system management) runs
on a general-purpose, networking host processor, such
as Motorola鈥檚 MPC750. Integrating the functions of
these processors for advanced networking technologies,
such as Gigabit Ethernet and SONET-based optical
switching, requires an intelligent software solution.
Motorola鈥檚 C-Port Network Processor (NP) Family
(including the C-5/C-5e/C-3e NPs and Q-3/Q-5 Traffic
Management Coprocessors) delivers complete program-
mability of forwarding plane functions within a highly
integrated hardware and software platform. Combine
this advanced forwarding plane technology with Wind
River
廬
Systems鈥?control plane expertise, and network
equipment vendors are able to build fully integrated
system software solutions more quickly than ever before
鈥?and keep products in the market longer through soft-
ware upgrades.
Integrated Layer 2 and Layer 3 Support
Wind River and Motorola have collaborated to create an
intelligent networking software solution with the C-5
Switch Support Package (SSP). The C-5 SSP integrates
Wind River Systems鈥?Tornado
廬
for Managed Switches
(TMS) with Motorola鈥檚 C-5 NP to provide an easily
customized system that serves as the foundation for
next-generation network devices.
Wind River鈥檚 TMS is an embedded software solution that
combines the powerful Tornado application development
platform and the VxWorks廬 RTOS, and a complete set of
layer 2 and layer 3 networking applications and proto-
cols. With advanced Quality of Service (QoS), TMS
supports Voice over IP (VoP), video conferencing, and
other sophisticated networking applications.
With the C-5 SSP, the C-5 NP implements nearly all of the
TMS functionality, and it is the first network processor to
provide VLAN support with TMS. By combining layer 2
Ethernet features with IP capabilities, the SSP addresses
the needs of next-generation applications in areas such
as broadband access, wireless infrastructure, and multi-
service access platforms.
The C-5 Switch Support
Package (SSP) integrates
the C-5 NP鈥檚 forwarding
functions with the layer 2
and layer 3 networking
applications and
protocols of Tornado
for Managed Switches.
Policy Applications
Control
Plane
Network Management
Signaling
Topology Management
C-5 SSP
Host Processor
Queuing / Scheduling
Data Transformation
Forwarding
Plane
Classification
Data Parsing
Media Access Control
C-Port C-5
Network Processor
Physical layer
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