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Acquisition Broadens Market-Leading Device Software Platform
With Best-of-Breed Networking, Security and Mobility Software
| ALAMEDA, Calif. - 2006-03-20 |
Wind River Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: WIND - News),
the global leader in Device Software Optimization (DSO), today announced
that it has acquired privately-held Interpeak AB of Stockholm, Sweden.
Interpeak is the leading provider of networking, security and mobility
middleware software that enables next-generation devices to connect
securely to the Internet. This acquisition broadens Wind River's
device software platform with complementary, high-quality, secure
networking technology and strengthens the company's ability to provide
device manufacturers with increased platform scalability and expanded
safety and mission critical certification support.
Under the terms of the agreement, Wind River paid approximately
$20 million in cash and restricted stock for Interpeak. Wind River
anticipates this acquisition will be mildly accretive in Fiscal
Year 2007 and is not changing its NonGAAP financial guidance for
Q1 or the Fiscal Year that was given on March 8th, 2006 in its fiscal
year 2006 earnings release. Wind River's Fiscal Year 2007 ends January
31, 2007.
"Wind River and Interpeak are DSO companies that share a cohesive
philosophy and offer complementary technology to a common installed
base," said Ken Klein, chairman, president and chief executive
officer, Wind River. "As the explosive growth of connected
devices continues, device manufacturers will require a high-quality,
secure networking stack that can run universally on both our RTOS
and Linux based platforms. Interpeak's secure, certifiable, networking
expertise will enhance Wind River's DSO strategy for delivering
a standardized device software development approach that provides
customers with the choice and flexibility to build any type of connected
device."
Interpeak offers numerous products that securely connect next-generation
devices to the Internet. Interpeak's networking, security and mobility
products help developers add functionality and improve device and
equipment quality across a wide range of markets including wireless
devices, wireless infrastructure, network infrastructure and safety
and mission critical devices. Alongside Wind River, Interpeak's
extensive expertise in IPv6, routing, wireless and mobility technologies
will enable device and equipment manufacturers to deliver their
products to market more quickly and offer the latest networking
and security capabilities.
By integrating Interpeak's secure networking technology, Wind River
will provide its customers with broader functionality including
a secure networking middleware stack that can run on either Wind
River VxWorks or Linux based platforms; increased scalability to
support secure networking requirements for even the smallest footprint
devices and expanded safety and mission critical certification support.
About Wind River
Wind River is the global leader in device software optimization
(DSO). Wind River enables companies to develop and run device software
faster, better, at a lower cost and more reliably. Wind River Platforms
are pre- integrated, fully standardized enterprise-wide development
solutions. They reduce effort, cost and risk, and optimize quality
and reliability at all phases of the device software development
process from concept to deployed product.
Founded in 1981, Wind River is headquartered in Alameda, California,
with operations worldwide. To learn more, visit Wind River at http://www.windriver.com
or call Wind River at 1-800-872-4977.
The Wind River logo is a trademark of Wind River Systems, Inc.,
and Wind River and VxWorks are registered trademarks of Wind River
Systems, Inc. Other marks used herein are their property of the
respective owners.
ThreadX® users gain access to Interpeak's IPNET and IPLITE
dual-mode IPv4/IPv6 TCP/IP stacks
| Nürnberg, Germany - Embedded World -
2006-02-14 |
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Express Logic, Inc., the worldwide leader in
royalty-free real-time operating systems (RTOS), and Interpeak,
a pioneer of Internet and secure networking software for embedded
systems, today announced that the companies have integrated Express
Logic's ThreadX® RTOS and Interpeak's TCP/IP stacks. ThreadX
customers will now be able to incorporate Interpeak's advanced security
and networking applications into their high performance and small
footprint embedded devices.
Interpeak's dual-mode IPv4/IPv6 IPNET and IPLITE stacks are now
fully integrated with the ThreadX RTOS. In addition to Interpeak's
full-featured TCP/IP networking stacks, ThreadX users can now select
from a complete suite of networking security products such as IPsec,
IKEv1/v2, SSL, SSH , firewall, and SNMPv2/v3 to enable their embedded
applications. Additionally, ThreadX users can leverage Interpeak's
tight integration with silicon vendors to support the hardware crypto
acceleration required in security applications.
Wireless developers using ThreadX now have access to a full range
of products targeted specifically at the wireless market. The building
blocks now available to ThreadX customers for the creation of robust
wireless designs include Interpeak's WiFi drivers, RADIUS client,
L2TPv2/v3, VPN capabilities, Mobile IP products, and WPA/WPA2 Supplicant,
which provides extensive support for EAP protocols (EAP-TLS, EAP-PEAP,
EAP-MD5, EAP-TTLS, EAP-SIM, EAP-MSCHAPv2 and EAP-AKA).
"Interpeak's protocols cover a wide range of must-have networking
capabilities for today's embedded devices," said William Lamie,
president of Express Logic. "Our customers are doing more and
more with their products, and often this requires secure communications.
With Interpeak's powerful tools now integrated with ThreadX, our
customers will be able to create more versatile next-generation
devices with less development time."
"With over 200 million ThreadX deployments, Express Logic
is a strong partner for us," noted Johan Fornaeus, chief executive
officer of Interpeak AB." Coupled with our dual-mode protocol
stack technology and its arsenal of networking and security capabilities,
ThreadX is poised to help consumer electronics' developers deliver
compact, secure, and reliable embedded devices."
Availability
Interpeak products are immediately available for the ThreadX RTOS
starting at $15,000. For more information regarding Express Logic,
contact 1-888-THREADX or sales@expresslogic.com.
About ThreadX
ThreadX is Express Logic's advanced RTOS designed specifically for
deeply embedded applications. ThreadX resides in a small amount
of flash or ROM memory, as little as 5K bytes, making it ideal for
resource-constrained devices. ThreadX is provided in full source
code form, and is completely royalty-free making it ideal for high-volume
applications. It has many advanced features, including its picokernel™
architecture, preemption-threshold™ technology, and a rich
set of easy-to-use system services. ThreadX also is available with
its companion FileX® MS-DOS compatible embedded file system,
PEGX™ embedded GUI, and USBX™ Host/Device USB stack.
About Interpeak's IPNET and IPLITE Technology
Interpeak's protocol stacks provide complete IPv4 and IPv6 networking
solutions, allowing device developers to rely on IPLITE and IPNET
for a range of embedded devices. A full-featured stack, IPNET supports
multiple network interfaces, NAT, PPP, PPPoE, unicast and multicast
routing, virtual routing, policy-based routing, VLAN tagging, Quality
of Service (DiffServ), and built-in advanced IP Security (IPsec).
IPLITE provides a small and compact dual IPv4/v6 protocol stack
configurable from 17 KB of memory for embedded systems requiring
a small footprint. IPsec is optionally available for IPLITE.
Both stack offerings have additional dual-mode IPv4/IPv6 network
applications available, such as telnet, FTP, TFTP, DNS and DHCP,
L2TPv2/v3, LDAP, RIPv2, SNTP, Web server and secure Web server,
MobileIPv4 and MobileIPv6, and SNMPv2/v3. Additional security protocols
such as RADIUS, stateful firewall, SSH, SSL, and IKEv1/v2 are also
available, as well as products to enable wireless network communication.
About Express Logic
Headquartered in San Diego, CA, Express Logic offers the most advanced
run-time solution for deeply embedded applications, including its
popular ThreadX® RTOS, the FileX® embedded MS-DOS compatible
file system, and the USBX™ Host/Device USB protocol stack.
All products from Express Logic include full source-code and have
no run-time royalties. For more information about Express Logic
solutions, please visit the Web site at www.expresslogic.com, call
1-888-THREADX, or e-mail inquiries to sales@expresslogic.com.
ThreadX and FileX are registered trademarks, and NetX, CANX,
USBX, preemption-threshold, picokernel, UDP fast path technology,
are trademarks of Express Logic, Inc. All other brands or product
names are the property of their respective holders.
| Stockholm, Sweden - 2006-02-10 |
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Interpeak, a pioneer of Internet and secure
networking software for embedded systems, announced its plan to
write a protection profile for its secure and trusted protocol stacks.
The protection profile is a part of Interpeak's Trusted Stack initiative.
The Secure and Trusted Stack Protection Profile (STS-PP) specifies
the security and functional assurance requirements for a class of
IPv6 networking. A stack evaluated against this Protection Profile
serves as a trusted foundation in security critical and complex
applications. In order to work in tandem with embedded designs based
on MILS (Multiple Independent Layers of Security/Safety) architecture,
an IPv6 stack must meet the rigorous Information Assurance (IA)
requirements of the National Information Assurance Partnership (NIAP).
A MILS-based architecture design is used for creating secure systems,
predominantly in the military and aerospace markets, in which data
is compartmentalized. The design relies on a separation kernel,
which ensures the control of information flow, and establishes and
maintains trusted delivery, trusted recovery and audit capabilities.
Interpeak outlined this initiative for members of The Open Group
last month, at an Open Group meeting in Barcelona, Spain. Interpeak
discussed complete details and product roadmaps for a High Assurance
IPv6 networking stack with no foreign code or influence. Work on
this program has already commenced; key accomplishments thus far
include membership in The Open Group and the start of the protection
profile. The company will collaborate with the U.S. Department of
Defense (DoD) system integrators and the Open Group during the design
and implementation of these products.
"Interpeak is honored to join the roster of members of The
Open Group," commented Johan Fornaeus, Interpeak's CEO. "The
consortium provides an unbiased perspective and offers a litmus
test for proposed security and networking standards. We look forward
to leveraging the group's collective experience and knowledge as
we work towards our protection profile."
About the Open Group
The Open Group is a vendor- and technology-neutral consortium, which
works towards enabling access to integrated information within and
between enterprises based on open standards and global interoperability.
With more than 200 member organizations and 6,000 participants,
the Open Group provides a range of services to its members, other
consortia, and government agencies, including strategy, management,
innovation and research, certification services, and standards services.
Its role is to capture, understand and address current and emerging
requirements, establish policies and share best practices; to facilitate
interoperability, develop consensus, and evolve and integrate specifications
and open source technologies; to offer a comprehensive set of services
to enhance the operational efficiency of consortia; and to operate
the industry's premier certification service. Further information
on The Open Group can be found at www.opengroup.org.
Industry Leaders Offer Integrated Communications Middleware-Networking
Solution for Embedded Applications, IPv6 Compatibility also Announced
| Herndon, Virginia and Stockholm, Sweden -
2006-01-30 |
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The steady proliferation of networked embedded
systems has created demand for increased performance of these systems.
Today, Objective Interface Systems, the global leader in high-performance,
real-time and embedded communications middleware, and Interpeak,
a pioneer of Internet and networking technology for embedded systems,
announced a technology integration that results in higher-performance
embedded systems on a network.
In addition, Objective Interface addressed the next-generation
Internet Protocol (IP) standard, IPv6, a standard that the U.S.
Department of Defense (DoD) has mandated for implementation by 2008.
Objective Interface's portfolio of communications middleware products
will support Interpeak's IPv6 solutions, allowing engineers to create
high-performance, IPv6-compliant embedded systems on a network.
Objective Interface has collaborated with Interpeak on software
optimizations that enhance the performance of networked embedded
applications, such as Software Defined Radio (SDR) and cellular
base stations. Specifically, communications middleware products
from Objective Interface, ORBexpress™ and PCSexpress™
as well as an upcoming publish-subscribe product based on the Data
Distribution Service (DDS) standard, support TCP/IP stacks and modules
from Interpeak-bringing higher performance to networked embedded
systems. Objective Interface products will support both IPv4 and
IPv6 compatibility with Interpeak's IPLITE, an embedded TCP/IP stack
for IPv4/IPv6 standards, and Interpeak's IPNET, a full-featured
TCP/IP stack specifically designed for embedded real-time systems.
"Objective Interface communications middleware enables programmers
to simplify the development of distributed embedded applications.
It facilitates the design of scalable, portable and high-performance
applications while adding virtually no overhead to the systems using
our commercially available middleware products. Interpeak offers
best-in-class networking solutions for embedded systems. Together,
our companies provide an integrated software solution for high-performance
embedded systems on any network," said Joe Jacob, senior vice
president of Objective Interface Systems. "Objective Interface
and Interpeak are at the forefront of supporting the latest IP standards.
Our integrated technologies support the development of high-performance
IPv6-compatible networked embedded systems-years before the Department
of Defense mandates IPv6 compatibility."
"Networking your embedded systems can create a variety of
problems for users," said Johan Fornaeus, CEO of Interpeak.
"Our collaboration with Objective Interface, a company renowned
for its high-performance communications middleware solutions, offers
users a fully optimized middleware-networking solution that improves
performance, reduces development time, and increases speed-to-market."
About IPv6
IPv6 is the next-generation Internet protocol standard, designed
by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) to replace the current
version Internet Protocol, IP Version 4 (IPv4) standard. IPv6 was
designed to compensate for the shortage of available IPv4 addresses.
It also provides quality of service (QoS) benefits over IPv4, with
additional improvements in the areas of routing, multicasting, security,
mobility and network auto-configuration.
Objective Interface Communications Middleware
The Objective Interface portfolio of communications middleware products
includes ORBexpress and PCSexpress. The company will also soon offer
a publish-subscribe communications middleware product based on the
DDS standard. ORBexpress is the world's fastest and smallest full-featured
real-time ORB. Thousands of customers worldwide have used ORBexpress
to build a better communications infrastructure in hundreds of products.
Available in C++, Ada and Java, ORBexpress conforms to the Common
Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) standard that enables
applications in heterogeneous environments to communicate seamlessly.
PCSexpress is based on the Partitioning Communications Systems (PCS),
the Multiple Independent Levels of Security (MILS) middleware technology
that was invented by Objective Interface. PCSexpress provides highly
robust separation of data throughout a network system. It is ideally
suited for security-critical applications.
Availability
The technical integration for Objective Interface ORBexpress and
Interpeak's embedded TCP/IP solutions is available today. The technical
integration for Objective Interface PCSexpress and the company's
future publish-subscribe middleware communications product will
be available as those products come to market. For more information
on Objective Interface communications middleware, please visit:
www.ois.com/products,
call 1 800-800-OIS7 in the U.S., +33 (0) 6 68 35 15 45
in Europe or +81 (0)3-5623-2112 in Japan or e-mail inquiries
to: info@ois.com.
About Objective Interface Systems
Objective Interface is the worldwide leader of high-performance,
real-time and embedded communications middleware solutions. The
company provides CORBA ORBs, publish-subscribe technology based
on the Object Management Group (OMG) Data Distribution Service standard
(DDS) and secure communications middleware development tools based
on the MILS architecture to meet the high-performance requirements
of military and aerospace, telecommunications, data communications,
industrial automation and process control, transportation and consumer
electronics markets. Objective Interface products are the communications
core of many mission-critical products and systems including mission-critical
avionics systems, network management, vehicle control and management
systems, software defined radio, telecommunication systems, process
control systems and nuclear fusion ignition facilities. Customers
of Objective Interface include Boeing, BAE Systems, British Aerospace,
CERN, Daimler-Benz, EADS, Ericsson, Eurocontrol, General Dynamics,
Harris, Hughes Network Systems, ITT, Kawasaki Heavy Industries,
Lawrence Livermore National Labs, Lockheed Martin, Lucent, Nikon,
Nortel, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon, Rockwell Collins, Saab, Samsung,
Sandia, TEAC, TRW, the U.S. Department of Defense and many others.
For more information, please visit: www.ois.com.
ORBexpress and PCSexpress are trademarks of Objective Interface
Systems. All other product and company names are trademarks or registered
trademarks of their respective holders.
| Stockholm, Sweden - 2006-01-04 |
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Interpeak, a pioneer of Internet and secure
networking software for embedded systems, has been recognized as
the fortieth fastest-growing technology company in Europe, the Middle
East and Africa by Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu (DTT) in its annual
Technology Fast 500 Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA).
The Technology Fast 500 Awards are given by Deloitte each year,
based on percentage revenue growth over a five-year period. Interpeak's
five-year growth was 1,978 percent compared to an average of 935
percent among all 500 companies.
In November 2005, Deloitte cited Interpeak as the second fastest-growing
technology company in its Sweden Technology Fast 50 Awards. Established
in 1995, the Deloitte Fast 50 ranks the 50 fastest-growing technology
companies by geographic region. Winners of the regional Fast 50
programs are automatically eligible for the Fast 500 program in
their area.
"Software's prevalence in this year's list of winners confirms
that the software sector continues to thrive as it meets the demand
created by the increased adoption of Internet technologies across
the world," said Johan Fornaeus, CEO of Interpeak. "We
are extremely proud to join our fellow Fast 500 winners and look
forward to another year of significant growth."
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