| Wind River buys safety-critical net stack vendor |
Mar. 20, 2006
Wind River has acquired a secure network stack vendor for $20 million in cash and stock. Interpeak AB of Stockholm, Sweden, offers stacks for carrier-grade routers, access equipment, WiFi nodes, and small-footprint networked devices, including the first TCP/IP stacks for Linux-based routers and embedded hosts to achieve "IPv6-Ready" certification.
Wind River says it will integrate Interpeak's network and security protocol stacks with its operating system and tool suite products based on embedded Linux and VxWorks. It calls Interpeak's stacks "complementary, high-quality, and secure," and expects them to enhance its products' scalability, as well as their safety- and mission-critical certifiability.
Interpeak's Linux-friendly products include a commercial SSH daemon, tiny and mid-sized IPv4/IPv6 stacks that support virtual routing features, secure WiFi stacks, and a wide variety of standard networking and security protocol stacks. Interpeak's IPNet TCP/IP stacks for routers and embedded hosts were the first to achieve "IPv6 Ready" certification from the IPv6 Forum, in December of 2004.
Wind River expects the buy to be "mildly accretive" to fiscal 2007, ending Jan. 31, 2007, but has not altered guidance pursuant to the purchase.
CEO Ken Klein stated, "Manufacturers 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 standardized device software development approach."
Wind River last week announced that it will supply its WorkBench development tools to some 2,000 software developers working on the US military's massive Future Combat Systems (FCS) project.
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