Provides
a proven, high performance and flexible platform for deploying feature rich
Software Defined Networks (SDN) with support for 3rd Party applications in
addition to Open vSwitch, OpenFlow, & VXLAN
SAN
JOSE, Calif., May 7,
2013 -- Cavium, Inc. (NASDAQ: CAVM), a leading provider of highly
integrated semiconductor products that enable intelligent processing for
networking, communications and cloud infrastructure, today announced the new LiquidIO
Server Adapter family. This new adapter family enables data centers to
rapidly deploy high performance SDN applications for both installed and new
infrastructure while clearly enhancing server utilization, response times and
network agility. The LiquidIO Server Adapters are designed for deployment by
cloud service providers, enterprises and private data centers worldwide.
Server
virtualization technology has enabled multiple virtual machines (VM) per server
providing significant benefits to enterprises worldwide. However the
complete benefits of server virtualization cannot be realized without the
associated network virtualization. Software Defined Network (SDN) technology
enables flexible virtualization of the network. Enabling network
virtualization requires software based switching and tunneling, to decouple
physical and logical networks, which significantly taxes the server CPU and
reduces performance and increases latency. Cloud Services Providers need
to tackle these issues to meet their customer commitments on performance,
bandwidth and quality of service (QoS). They need a hardware solution
that offloads SDN and network processing from the main server CPU into an
intelligent network adapter. Additionally, the
offload protocols required by cloud service providers are evolving and
differentiated. This drives the need for SDN Adapters to be fully programmable.
LiquidIO
Server AdapterThis new family of adapters includes
LiquidIO Server Adapter 210Sv with two 10 Gigabit Ethernet ports and the 110Sv
with one 10 Gigabit Ethernet port. This product family provides a proven,
high-performance, programmable adapter platform for cloud service
providers. It is offered in a standard server compliant half-height PCI
Express form-factor and is supported by a feature rich Software Development Kit
(SDK). This SDK allows customers and partners to develop high performance SDN
applications with packet processing, tunneling, QoS, security and
metering. The adapter family provides out-of-the-box 10 Gbps OVS, Open
Flow, VXLAN and NVGRE tunneling protocol performance.
The
LiquidIO adapter family has been tested against several commonly used
Controllers including Floodlight and NOX. Customers also have the added
advantage of being able to run L4-L7 networking & security services on this
platform. Several partner companies including PLUMGrid and One
Convergence are leveraging this family to offer high performance network
virtualization solutions to their customers.
"The
requirements of Software Defined Networks align very well with Cavium's strong
core competencies of programmability, networking and security. The
LiquidIO Server Adapter Family eliminates the performance
penalties associated with software only based network virtualization. It
delivers high performance with very low power dissipation along with rich
software development and application toolkits to enable cloud scale SDN deployments,"
said Rajneesh Gaur, General Manager of Cavium's Accelerator & Adapter
Group.
"PLUMgrid's
collaboration with Cavium brings feature-rich Virtual Network Infrastructure
(VNI) on top of high-performance programmable network adapters to customers who
are building public and private cloud data centers based on PLUMgrid's
solution," said Pere Monclus, Co-founder and CTO at PLUMGrid.
"Cavium's LiquidIO Server Adapter family helps to drive the critical shift
to VNI, and is an essential part of an effective cloud and SDN strategy."
"Cavium's
LiquidIO Server Adapter family is ideal for One Convergence Edge
Acceleration Platform to offload and accelerate virtual switching,
security/crypto and other data path intensive functions. This complements One
Convergence's Network Virtualization and Service Delivery solution in
delivering accelerated network services," said Prasad Vellanki, CEO of One
Convergence Inc.
AvailabilityThe LiquidIO Server Adapter Family is available now along
with SDK and SDN Toolkit support. For more information please contact your
Cavium Sales Rep.
About
Cavium, Inc.Cavium is a leading provider of highly
integrated semiconductor products that enable intelligent processing in
networking, communications and the digital home. Cavium offers a broad
portfolio of integrated, software compatible processors ranging in performance
from 10 Mbps to over 100 Gbps that enable secure, intelligent functionality in
enterprise, data-center, broadband/consumer and access & service provider
equipment. Cavium's processors are supported by ecosystem partners that provide
operating systems, tool support, reference designs and other services. Cavium's
principal offices are in San
Jose, California with design team
locations in California, Massachusetts, India and China.
For more information, please visit: http://www.cavium.com
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