Cavium to Showcase M-CORD NFV/5G on ARM with Leaf and Spine SDN Fabric at Mobile World Congress Americas 2017

Cavium™ expands China Unicom partnership to include Edge Services

SAN JOSE and SAN FRANCISCO, CA, September 11, 2017 – Cavium, Inc. (NASDAQ: CAVM), a leading provider of semiconductor products that enable intelligent processing for enterprise, data center, wired and wireless networking today announced a fully integrated CORD (Central Office Re-architected as Data center) SDN/NFV platform software stack on its ThunderX® ARM®-based data center COTS server architecture including a full leaf and spine SDN fabric on its XPliant® programmable SDN switches. The CORD platform with seamlessly integrated SDN fabric is showcased in a multi-rack configuration running M-CORD Virtualized Mobile Infrastructure and Edge Services at MWC Americas, at the Open Network Foundation’s stand N.332 at Moscone Center Hall North from September 12-14, 2017. This M-CORD SDN/NFV software platform scaling across multiple data center racks is fully integrated with virtualized and disaggregated mobile infrastructure elements from the edge of the Radio Access Network (RAN) to distributed mobile core, and ONOS SDN and XOS orchestration software. It enables a virtually turn-key operation in a central office or edge data center for testing out NFV, 5G and C-RAN new technology concepts like intelligent front-haul and network slicing. This is a complete Cavium powered SDN/NFV/C-RAN end to end solution combining the OCTEON Fusion-M baseband radio head processors with the ThunderX ARM-based COTS servers and the award winning programmable XPliant Ethernet leaf and spine SDN switches. In keeping with industry trends the front-haul options follow the emerging 3GPP next generation standards. China Unicom and Cavium have been collaborating on M-CORD and C-RAN projects, utilizing this integrated platform. The addition of Edge Services and full leaf and spine support further enhances the value proposition and eases 5G deployment. “A fully integrated SDN/NFV data center solution with programmable SDN fabric and workload optimized servers for NFV and C-RAN functions enables implementation of innovative 5G and Edge Computing capabilities and running live traffic for analysis,” said Raj Singh, Vice President & General Manager of the Network & Communication Group at Cavium. “This differentiated and highly scalable implementation of M-CORD platform, using Cavium silicon-based white box servers, switches and remote radio units, provides a 3GPP-compliant virtualized mobile infrastructure with full programmability and flexibility for next-generation network topologies.” “Programmable SDN fabric enables a new dimension of flexibility in high-performance protocol processing with the ability to implement new protocols and analytics without hardware change,” said Eric Hayes, Vice President & General Manager of the Switching Platform Group at Cavium. “The XPliant Ethernet switch families deliver state-of-the-art throughput and exceptional programmability for data center networks.” “Our collaboration with Cavium is progressing well and the ThunderX and XPliant-based M-CORD is an effective platform for testing out and analyzing new 5G capabilities,” said Dr. Tang Xiongyan, CTO of Network Technology Research Institute, China Unicom. “We believe that our partnership will provide significant benefits to both parties.” “M-CORD provides an effective reference platform for showcasing and analyzing new technologies and features for next generation virtualized and SDN enabled mobile infrastructure and edge datacenters,” said Dr. Guru Parulkar, Exec Director of ONF and ON.Lab. “Cavium has been contributing to the M-CORD community since the very beginning. This Cavium silicon powered multi-rack M-CORD implementation with ThunderX ARM based COTS servers and XPliant based white box switches showcases a rich interoperable CORD eco-system well supported by a diversified set of COTS hardware.” About Cavium Cavium, Inc. (NASDAQ: CAVM), offers a broad portfolio of infrastructure solutions for compute, security, storage, switching, connectivity and baseband processing. Cavium’s highly integrated multi-core SoC products deliver software compatible solutions across low to high performance points enabling secure and intelligent functionality in Enterprise, Data Center and Service Provider Equipment. Cavium processors and solutions are supported by an extensive ecosystem of operating systems, tools, application stacks, hardware-reference designs and other products. Cavium is headquartered in San Jose, CA with design centers in California, Massachusetts, India, Israel, China and Taiwan. For more information, please visit: http://www.cavium.com. Media Contact Angel Atondo Sr. Marketing Communications Manager Cavium, Inc. Telephone: +1 408-943-7417 Email: angel.atondo@cavium.com

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Cavium to Demonstrate Next-generation NFV, SDN, 5G and Telco Cloud Infrastructure Solutions at NFV World Congress 2017

SAN JOSE, CA – May 3, 2017 – Cavium, Inc. (NASDAQ: CAVM), a leading provider of semiconductor products that enable secure and intelligent processing for enterprise, datacenter, cloud, wired and wireless networking, will demonstrate the company’s next generation NFV, SDN, 5G, and Telco Cloud Infrastructure solutions at NFV World Congress May 3^rd - 5^th at the DoubleTree Hotel in San Jose, California. 

NFV World Congress was founded in 2014 by a group of visionary and senior carrier leaders, in order to form a center of gravity for the rapidly emerging NFV industry, and provide the right forum to accelerate innovation and support ecosystem growth. Over 1,000 delegates attended the launch event in spring 2015, growing to over 1,300 delegates in 2016, along with 50+ exhibitors and over 20 live demos.

Cavium will showcase the following demonstrations in booth #10:

• M–CORD Demonstration: SDN, NFV, C–RAN and Multi–access Edge Computing
• Open source SDN/NFV proof–of–concept demonstration based on our collaboration with ON.Lab and multiple network operators. M–CORD is the Mobile – Central Office Re–architected as Datacenter project. This PoC demonstration features Cavium processor-based COTS hardware from the RAN to the core network. In addition, commercial VNFs as Edge services will be demonstrated in Multi–access Edge Computing scenario running on a NFV infrastructure that is based on Cavium ThunderX® ARM based COTS servers and XPliant® based SDN white box switch.
• Multi–mode Basestation On-a-Chip
• Single–chip Macrocell / Microcell and smart radio head processors supporting 3GPP releases 10 – 13.
• 64–bit ARM Processors for COTS Servers, Carrier–Grade NFV across Cloud/Edge/On–Premise, IoT Gateway, Embedded Applications
• ThunderX® servers and OCTEON TX™ ODM boxes featuring rich ecosystems: OS distros, dataplane and security processing acceleration, Ceph storage and more.
• Telco Cloud Security and NFV Acceleration
• LiquidIO® intelligent Adapters enable network virtualization for network and security acceleration including OVS, vRouter, Firewall, IPSec, NFV based virtual appliances and Service Function Chaining. ETSI NFV ISG PoC #41 “Network Function Acceleration” scenarios.
• QLogic® FastLinQ® Ethernet Adapter Family
• 10/25/50/100 GbE connectivity with DPDK, NVMf with Universal RDMA, OVS, SDN Tunneling and OpenStack support for telco and private/hybrid cloud applications.
• Security as a Service for Telco Cloud
• LiquidSecurity™ appliance provides key management and crypto offload for virtual network functions such as vADC and vFW.

To schedule a meeting with Cavium, please contact your local sales account manager or Lilly Ly (lilly.ly@cavium.com). Please enter Meeting Request at NFV World Congress 2017 in the subject line.

About Cavium
Cavium, Inc. (NASDAQ: CAVM), offers a broad portfolio of infrastructure solutions for compute, security, storage, switching, connectivity and baseband processing. Cavium’s highly integrated multi-core SoC products deliver software compatible solutions across low to high performance points enabling secure and intelligent functionality in Enterprise, Datacenter and Service Provider Equipment. Cavium processors and solutions are supported by an extensive ecosystem of operating systems, tools, application stacks, hardware reference designs and other products. Cavium is headquartered in San Jose, CA with design centers in California, Massachusetts, India, Israel, China and Taiwan.

Media Contact:
Angel Atondo
Sr. Marketing Communications Manager
Telephone: +1 408-943-7417
Email: angel.atondo@cavium.com 

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Cavium Joins Telecom Infra Project to Enable OpenCellular Access to LTE, LTE-A and NFV/5G Technologies

Demonstrates Live OpenCellular with LTE MIMO, in Hall 2 M33 at Mobile World Congress

SAN JOSE, Calif. and BARCELONA, Spain Feb. 27, 2017 – Cavium, Inc., (NASDAQ: CAVM), a leading provider of semiconductor products that enable secure and intelligent processing for enterprise, data center, wired and wireless networking announced that it has joined the Telecom Infra Project (TIP), an initiative founded by Facebook, SK Telecom, Deutsche Telekom and others, that encourages the adoption of an open approach to global networks. As part of an ongoing commitment to support advances in telecom infrastructure networks, Cavium will contribute key wireless access technologies to TIP's OpenCellular project group in order to address the demand for faster, more agile networks around the globe.

Cavium will contribute and support the design of a complete, production-ready hardware design for a single sector LTE 2T2R MIMO (64/128 user) for OpenCellular in the second half of 2017. The design will be based on the OCTEON Fusion CNF7130 baseband processor, and will also have the associated end-to-end L1 to L3 software stack, ensuring easy and predictable deployment.  Cavium will also provide open source access to certain APIs to allow the community to further enhance and expand the capabilities of the LTE cell. Additional software contributions of open APIs for the transport layer and timing synchronization are also planned. Cavium will continue to offer its direct licensees the ability to provide highly differentiated LTE basestation solutions based on the same processor technology. Cavium will continue the contribution and community support effort via its latest OCTEON Fusion-M four sector 8T8R, multimode (GSM/WCDMA/LTE) CNF7330 processor and reference design, capable of supporting 512 to 1024 users. This state-of-the-art device supports advanced features compliant with 3GPP releases 12 and 13, and provides an excellent platform for dense deployments. In addition, Cavium will, provide open source access to various NFV and 5G APIs to allow the community to further broaden its reach into new areas.

“We welcome Cavium's membership and contribution to the Telecom Infra Project. The combination of their hardware designs, open APIs and robust software offering provides a near market ready solution to the TIP community,” said Dr. Alex Jinsung Choi, CTO of SK Telecom and TIP Chairman. “We look forward to working with the community to deploy these exciting technologies for LTE, LTE-A and eventually 5G.”

"We share TIP's vision of open, connected telecom infrastructure with universal access,” said Raj Singh, Vice President & General Manager, Network & Communication Group at Cavium. “OCTEON Fusion-M baseband processors are extensively deployed in advanced carrier networks and are field proven designs. We believe our contribution will help propagate advanced wireless telecom technologies to the broader community allowing for new and exciting innovations in the industry.”

The Facebook/TIP Open Cellular LTE implementation is being demonstrated on the Cavium booth at Mobile World Congress in Hall2 M33

To schedule a meeting at Mobile World Congress, please send an email to sales@cavium.com and enter MWC 2017 Meeting Request in the subject line.

About Cavium
Cavium, Inc. (NASDAQ: CAVM), offers a broad portfolio of infrastructure solutions for compute, security, storage, switching, connectivity and baseband processing. Cavium’s highly integrated multi-core SoC products deliver software compatible solutions across low to high performance points enabling secure and intelligent functionality in Enterprise, Data Center and Service Provider Equipment. Cavium processors and solutions are supported by an extensive ecosystem of operating systems, tools, application stacks, hardware reference designs and other products. Cavium is headquartered in San Jose, CA with design centers in California, Massachusetts, India, Israel, China and Taiwan.

Media Contact 
Angel Atondo
Sr. Marketing Communications Manager
Telephone: +1 408-943-7417
Email: angel.atondo@cavium.com 

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Cavium Partners with China Unicom to Showcase M-CORD NFV/5G at Mobile World Congress 2017

ThunderX® ARM V8.1 workload optimized data center server processors and XPliant® SDN fabric for deployment solutions

SAN JOSE, CA, and BARCELONA, SPAIN February 27, 2017 – Cavium, Inc. (NASDAQ: CAVM), a leading provider of semiconductor products that enable secure and intelligent processing for enterprise, data center, wired and wireless networking today announced a full implementation of the ON.Lab CORD (Central Office Re-architected as Data center) SDN/NFV platform software stack on its ThunderX ARM based data center COTS server architecture. In addition, the leaf and spine switching integral to CORD is now supported by Cavium’s XPliant programmable SDN switch.

As part of the previously announced collaboration Cavium and China Unicom have worked closely on porting and integrating the entire M-CORD software stack to a single unified hardware architecture optimized for NFV operation and SDN control. The Cavium M-CORD rack is a fully integrated system implementing the full set of features from the edge of the Radio Access Network (RAN) to the ONOS and XOS SDN and orchestration software. It allows for a virtually turn-key operation in any central office for a full NFV C-RAN deployment.  The combination of the ThunderX ARM based data center server processor with the award winning highly programmable XPliant switch provide a compelling platform for M-CORD.

China Unicom and Cavium will work together to trial the system in live locations to optimize the vBBU performance and core network provisioning.

“We are very excited to collaborate with China Unicom in this key milestone in the M-CORD initiative. A homogenous hardware architecture fully optimized for NFV and 5G functions is a key pre-requisite for field deployments,” said Raj Singh Vice President & General Manager of the Network & Communication Group at Cavium. “This differentiated and highly scalable implementation will allow operators such as China Unicom to rapidly explore and implement next generation network topologies.”

“Our collaboration with Cavium has shown real progress and we are looking forward to trying the new ThunderX based M-CORD and virtualized RAN implementation in our network,” said Dr. Tang Xiongyan, CTO of Network Technology Research Institute, China Unicom”. “We believe that our partnership will provide significant benefits to both parties.”

About Cavium
Cavium, Inc. (NASDAQ: CAVM), offers a broad portfolio of infrastructure solutions for compute, security, storage, switching, connectivity and baseband processing. Cavium’s highly integrated multi-core SoC products deliver software compatible solutions across low to high performance points enabling secure and intelligent functionality in Enterprise, Data Center and Service Provider Equipment. Cavium processors and solutions are supported by an extensive ecosystem of operating systems, tools, application stacks, hardware reference designs and other products. Cavium is headquartered in San Jose, CA with design centers in California, Massachusetts, India, Israel, China and Taiwan.

Media Contact 
Angel Atondo
Sr. Marketing Communications Manager
Telephone: +1 408-943-7417
Email: angel.atondo@cavium.com 

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Cavium unveils 4G and 5G solutions for Next Generation Carrier Infrastructure at Mobile World Congress 2016

Demonstrates Industry-leading NFV, SDN and C-RAN solutions for LTE-A & upcoming 5G Infrastructure deployments

SAN JOSE, CA, BARCELONA, SPAIN Feb 22, 2016 – Cavium, Inc., (NASDAQ: CAVM), a leading provider of semiconductor products that enable intelligent processing for enterprise, data center, wired and wireless networking, today announced that it will showcase its wide array of complementary technologies for SDN, NFV and C-RAN targeting advanced 4G and 5G networks using Cavium’s ThunderX COTS ARMV8 processors, OCTEON Fusion-Mbaseband processors, OCTEON Multi-Core Processors, LiquidIO Intellignet NICs and LiquidSecurity key management solutions at this week's Mobile World Congress in Barcelona , Spain.

The ability to seamlessly integrate new technologies such as Network Function Virtualization (NFV) which removes the constraints of fixed function network components and allows scalable multi function networks, Cloud RAN (C-RAN) a special use case of NFV for centralizing and managing varying Radio Access Nodes, Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) for increasing autonomy and decision making at the edge of the network provides an innovative and scalable solution for many of the issues faced by carriers as they expand existing networks and look to the needs of the 5G future.

The significant demand for faster data rates, increased security and lower latency connections is fueling the demand for dramatically improved technologies to play key role in 4G networks and will be fundamental to 5G architectures.

“The challenges inherent in next-generation carrier networks will be simplified by virtulization technologies including NFV and SDN,” said Linley Gwennap, Principal Analyst of The Linley Group. “Cavium’s ThunderX server processors are optimized for these workloads, making them well suited for NFV deployments.”

Cavium will exhibit the following technology solutions at MWC 2016 Booth 2M33:

• Carrier grade NFV: Fully OPNFV compliant MontaVista Carrier Grade NFV showcasing a complete E2E Cloud-RAN solution on a highly scalable ThunderX ARMv8 NFV server processor.
• SDN, NFV Cloud / Centralized RAN: Fully Programmable, low latency SDN–based RAN solution for LTE and 5G based on ThunderX workload optimized server processors and single chip OCTEON Fusion-M Smart Radio Head solutions supporting multiple C-RAN splits including RLC, MAC-PHY. The demo also showcases RAN orchestration and dynamic resource allocation using SDN control.
• Multimode MacroCell on a Chip: OCTEON Fusion-M multimode “Macrocell Basestation on a Chip” for LTE Rel12/WCDMA/GSM..
• Telco Cloud and NFV acceleration: Liquid IO intelligent server NIC cards offloading multiple functions including IPSec, OVS, Service Function Chaining and DPI.
• Security as a Service for Telco Cloud: LiquidSecurity appliance for high performance security and comprehensive key management in the cloud..

“Mobile World Congress 2016 is a unique opportunity for our OEM customers and Service Providers to see the exciting silicon and software products from Cavium,” said Syed Ali, President & CEO of Cavium. “The rapid increase in mobile data and the move to NFV and 5G necessitates a new generation of silicon solutions with massive increases in throughput and security for wireless infrastructure.”

To schedule a meeting at Mobile World Congress, please send an email to sales@cavium.com and enter MWC 2016 Meeting Request in the subject line.

About Cavium, Inc.

Cavium is a leading provider of highly integrated semiconductor products that enable intelligent processing in enterprise, data center, cloud and wired and wireless service provider applications. Cavium offers a broad portfolio of integrated, software-compatible processors ranging in performance from 100Mbps to 100Gbps that enable secure, intelligent functionality in enterprise, data-center, broadband/consumer and access and 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 office is in San Jose, CA with design team locations in California, Massachusetts, India and China. For more information, please visit: http://www.cavium.com.

Cavium Contact:

Angel Atondo 

Sr. Marketing Communications Manager,

Cavium, 2315 N. First Street,

San Jose CA 95131, 

Telephone: +1 408-943-7417

Email: angel.atondo@cavium.com

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Cavium and Argela to Deliver ProgRAN, a Fully Programmable, SDN-based RAN Solution for LTE and 5G

SAN JOSE, CA, BARCELONA, SPAIN Feb 22, 2016 – Cavium, Inc., (NASDAQ: CAVM), a leading provider of semiconductor products that enable intelligent processing for enterprise, data center, wired and wireless networking, today announced that it has expanded its partnership with Argela, a member of Turk Telekom group, to include the availability of ProgRAN on Cavium’s OCTEON Fusion-M™ and ThunderX® network infrastructure processors.  ProgRAN is a fully programmable, SDN-based RAN solution for LTE and 5G developed by Argela.

The tremendous growth in wireless Internet use is showing no signs of slowing down. The explosion in this demand is not only due to the increase in the number of connections but also due to the multimedia-rich applications, which form the majority of these connections. Existing cellular networks will be insufficient, in part due to their inflexible and expensive equipment, as well as the complex and non-agile control plane of today’s wireless networks.

Argela’s newly announced ProgRAN solution paired with Cavium’s leading OCTEON Fusion-M baseband processors and Cavium’s ThunderX, a 64-bit ARMv8 SoC for next generation Data Center and Telco Cloud Applications, is applicable for both typical BTS and Cloud RAN deployments.

Using ProgRAN, MSPs may deploy, modify or introduce different scheduling, admission control and handover management algorithms to different flows in different parts of their network and conduct such controls via a simple programming interface.

Next Generation 5G technologies will include new, higher-frequency spectrum, including millimeter wave, Massive MIMO and optimized modulation, coding, and multiple access technologies for the new spectra to satisfy the growing demand in wireless connectivity as well as associated data rates using technologies like:

• ·Network Function Virtualization (NFV)                                                               The industry trend away from vertically integrated, inflexible and non-scalable equipment within the network towards software running on off-the-shelf ThunderX ARM servers in the cloud.
• Software-Defined Networking (SDN)                                                                   For both the Core and Radio Access Networks, so that MSPs may develop new revenue sources via programmable control of the network.

The key differentiator for 5G systems will be the orchestration of the overall system (CN+RAN) control to realize the benefits of Telco Cloud while taking full advantage of the transport capacity over a multitude of spectra and distributed over a large geographical area.

“We have worked closely with Argela to leverage our experience in NFV/CRAN operator trials both on ThunderX and OCTEON Fusion-M to bring this very exciting product to market. As an OCTEON Fusion-M licensee, Argela has access to Cavium’s leading silicon and software technologies for NFV/CRAN implementations,” said Raj Singh, General Manager, Wireless Broadband Group, Cavium, Inc.  “We are very excited by Argela’s innovative architecture and look forward to working closely with them to enable rapid adoption of this exciting new technology.”

“Cavium’s OCTEON Fusion-M baseband CNF75XX solution coupled with its world class ThunderX 64-bit ARMv8 SoC for next generation Data Center and Telco Cloud Applications is a perfect platform for our SDN/NFV implementation,” said Dr. Oguz Sunay Chief Technology Officer, Argela. “Together we provide an excellent integrated solution that addresses the needs of the rapidly developing 5G marketplace while providing scalability, reliability and

About Cavium, Inc.

Cavium (NASDAQ: CAVM) is a leading provider of highly integrated semiconductor products that enable intelligent processing in enterprise, data center, cloud and wired and wireless service provider applications. Cavium offers a broad portfolio of integrated, software-compatible processors ranging in performance from 100 Mbps to 100 Gbps that enable secure, intelligent functionality in enterprise, data-center, broadband/consumer and access and 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 office is in San Jose, CA with design team locations in California, Massachusetts, India and China. For more information, please visit: http://www.cavium.com.

Cavium Contact:

Angel Atondo 

Sr. Marketing Communications Manager,

Cavium, 2315 N. First Street,

San Jose CA 95131, 

Telephone: +1 408-943-7417

Email: angel.atondo@cavium.com

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