Wind River Advances 5G vRAN With Edge Cloud

Wind River today announced the commercial availability of a Kubernetes-based cloud platform designed to manage edge cloud infrastructure. Wind River Cloud Platform can manage physically separated infrastructure for virtual radio access networks (vRANs) and core data center sites, according to the software vendor. The cloud native technologies encompassed in the offering are “specifically for edge compute applications such as 5G vRAN,” said Paul Miller, VP of telecommunications at Wind River, in response to questions. The platform is based on the OpenStack Foundation’s StarlingX project, and Wind River claims it’s the world’s first cloud infrastructure designed purely for 5G vRAN applications.