Cavium Enables Telecom Infra Project OpenCellular Base Stations in Operators Network Trials

OC-LTE Base Stations Debut in Real Deployments

SAN JOSE, CA, and TAIPEI, TAIWAN, June 4, 2018 – Cavium™, Inc., a leading provider of semiconductor products that enable secure and intelligent processing for enterprise, data center, and wired and wireless networking, has partnered with the Telecom Infra Project (TIP) community to enable live field trials of OpenCellular LTE (OC-LTE) base stations in a number of world-wide lab and field trials.

OC-LTE outdoor base stations previously limited to lab testing have now been deployed in a number of network operator laboratories as well as live field trials in Europe and Africa.  Cavium technicians in conjunction with operators and system integrators have provisioned OC-LTE base stations to provide LTE services in targeted underserved areas. This expanded field support ecosystem continues to expand, allowing deployments to spread around the globe.

The OC-LTE outdoor base station exclusively uses the OCTEON Fusion-M CNF7130 and the Cavium contributed L1 PHY and commercial L2-L3 protocol stack which have been successfully deployed in multiple commercial networks around the world.

“Cavium’s continued commitment to the TIP OpenCellular LTE program has been greatly appreciated by the community,” said Kashif Ali, Facebook Co-chair of the OpenCellular project.  “Their willingness to contribute both technology and expertise to the program is helping to build momentum for many upcoming deployments.”

“We are reaching the final stages of preparation for large-scale deployment of OC-LTE basestations,” said Jean-Francois Lacasse, Cavium Wireless Integration Sr. Manager and OC-LTE Radio Access Working Group Lead.  “Helping operators and system integrators plan for and then deploy the basestations in live networks is among the most important final steps in the process.  By supporting the trials, Cavium is helping to expand the knowledge base and expertise required by the TIP community.”

Cavium will host a live demonstration of the OC-LTE base station their Computex suite at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Taipei during the week of June 5 - 9.

For more information on Cavium’s products or to schedule a meeting with Cavium at Computex 2018, please contact your local sales account manager or Lilly Ly (lly@cavium.com). Please enter Meeting Request at Computex 2018 in the subject line. 

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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 about the Company, 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 Announces Availability of Driver to Support NVMe Over Fibre Channel

Cavium NVMe™ over Fibre Channel Driver Is now available for servers running Enterprise Linux from SUSE® and Red Hat®

SAN JOSE, CA – April 30, 2018 – Cavium™, Inc. (NASDAQ: CAVM) a leading provider of semiconductor products that enable secure and intelligent processing for enterprise, data center, cloud, wired and wireless networking, today announced the availability of a unified driver that enables native support for FC-NVMe protocol for servers running enterprise Linux from Red Hat and SUSE.

This unified driver delivers simultaneous support for FCP-SCSI and FC-NVMe protocols on the same port for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3 kernel version 4.4.120 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5. Cavium is actively engaged with major OSVs to enable native FC-NVMe support on other platforms, as well.

Cavium chairs the INCITS T11 standards committee on FC-NVMe that has been driving the definition and development of the FC-NVMe protocol over the past three years, and is at the forefront of support for NVMe over Fibre Channel.

The new unified driver works with both the Cavium QLogic® 2690 Family of Gen5 (16GFC) Fibre Channel Adapters, as well as, the Cavium QLogic 2700 Family of Gen6 (32GFC) Fibre Channel Adapters for the most flexible deployment.

Cavium’s unified driver with native FC-NVMe support enables flash storage to further accelerate mission critical workloads, such as ERP, business intelligence and messaging and collaboration systems by:

• Lowering read access times to networked storage
• Reducing processing time with a streamlined and simplified protocol interface compared to SCSI
• Increasing scalability and improving response times with a highly parallelized architecture and extremely deep queuing structures  

   “Cavium has long been at the forefront of storage innovation, and we’re excited to be working with our partners to bring FC-NVMe technology to market.  FC-NVMe represents a natural progression for SAN connectivity, and provides value by delivering performance gains that leverage existing infrastructure.  FC-NVMe couples extremely scalable, low latency flash storage with the most reliable, secure and widely deployed storage network in the data center allowing customers to continue to scale their infrastructure to meet future business needs”, said Vikram Karvat, vice president and general manager, Fibre Channel Storage Group, Cavium.

"Broadcom is modernizing Fibre Channel for the next wave of technology innovation coming with NVMe storage,” said Jack Rondoni, senior vice president and general manager, Brocade Storage Networking division at Broadcom. “Brocade Gen 6 Fibre Channel directors and switches are at the heart of the transition to NVMe with purpose-built SAN technology designed to address the low latency and reliability requirements for NVMe-based storage. Brocade and Cavium QLogic have a long history of development, integration, and testing that ensures our shared customers can deploy NVMe solutions with confidence.”

"Cavium QLogic worked closely with SUSE in the development of NVMe over Fibre Channel drivers on SUSE Enterprise Linux Server," said Olaf Kirch, VP SUSE Linux Enterprise. "FC-NVMe is an exciting development for the storage industry, offering improved storage solutions to meet tomorrow's challenges. Cavium and SUSE are committed to serving our customers' needs for superior Fibre Channel storage solutions."

More information about More information about the unified driver software is available at www.cavium.com/fc-nvme.html

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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 about the Company, please visit www.cavium.com.

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Telephone: +1 408-943-7417
Email: angel.atondo@cavium.com

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Cavium’s LiquidSecurity® HSM Enables Hybrid Cloud Users to Synchronize Keys Between AWS CloudHSM and Private Clouds

Scale Applications and Backup Keys Between AWS CloudHSM & Private Cloud

SAN JOSE, Calif., April 17, 2018 – Cavium™, Inc. (NASDAQ: CAVM), a leading provider of products that enable secure and intelligent processing for enterprise, data center, wired and wireless networking, today announced that its LiquidSecurity 140-2 Level 3 FIPS certified appliance enables seamless key backup and application scaling with AWS CloudHSM FIPS 140-2 Level 3 service. Customers can deploy LiquidSecurity HSMs on-premises or in a private data center, create a backup from a managed HSM instance in the cloud, and restore the backup to their on-premises HSM. While the cloud vendor can take backups of customer HSMs, enterprises with escrow needs will benefit from the ability to securely transfer and retain access to their keys within a FIPS boundary. Customers can also utilize this feature to scale in a hybrid cloud environment.

Cavum’s LiquidSecurity HSM family provides high-performance FIPS 140-2 level 3 HSMs that are run-time partitioned for elastic use on the cloud. It addresses high performance, key management and administration requirements for symmetric and asymmetric keys. It also addresses elastic performance per virtual/network domain for cloud environments, allowing enterprises to migrate on-premises workloads subject to compliance regulations or with stringent security requirements to the cloud. Examples include SaaS applications, e-commerce payment systems and Enterprise, Banking and Government security applications. SaaS applications which rely on this product family include Key Management as-a-Service, Database as-a-Service, Crypto as-a-Service, Secure DNS, Virtual Private Clouds, and payment systems.

Market Dynamics for Cloud Transaction Security

Cavium has observed two major trends driving the requirements for FIPS-based transaction security in cloud data centers. First, e-commerce, healthcare and government applications, which traditionally used FIPS-level security in private data centers, are migrating to a virtualized/SDN-capable, multi-domain cloud infrastructure. They need a secure and elastic FIPS solution as they migrate to the cloud.

Second, enterprise applications that have utilized private keys -- but did not require FIPS-based security because they were deployed in private data centers -- are migrating to the cloud as well. They now require FIPS-level security for the private keys with high key operation performance in a cloud environment. Hardware security modules are used as the root of trust for these sensitive workloads. To date, end users have been challenged to find an HSM that meets both security requirements such as FIPS 140-2 Level 3 validation, as well as usability requirements such as elasticity and high transactions per second.

Most enterprises can now utilize fully-managed HSMs on the cloud to meet these objectives with lower cost and reduced latency. Some of these end-users also require the additional comfort and reliability of on-premises backups. In addition to disaster recovery, this also ensures enterprises have flexibility in moving between different IaaS providers. The LiquidSecurity solution, by cloning on-premises HSMs to AWS CloudHSM including users and keys, allows enterprises to do just that.

Cavium caters to the changing needs of its enterprise customers, who require secure and authenticated deployments on the cloud, through its high performance FIPS 140-2 validated solution with storage for large number of keys, flexible support for large number of domains, ease of management and migration, and high bandwidth connectivity with SDN features.

“Cavium’s LiquidSecurity HSM family was designed from the ground up for the cloud and is a proven solution to address the performance, cost, multi-domain and feature requirements of this market. We are excited to extend this product family to provide local backup and dynamic restore capability for customers,” said Rajneesh Gaur, Vice President and General Manager at Cavium.

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About Cavium

Cavium, Inc. (NASDAQ: CAVM), offers a broad portfolio of infrastructure solutions for compute, security, storage, switching, connectivity and baseband processing. Cavium provides 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 further information, please visit the investor relations section of the Cavium web site at http://www.cavium.com.

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Cavium Collaborates with Microsoft to Demonstrate ThunderX2 Platform Compliant with Microsoft’s Project Olympus Specifications

Open Compute Project expands platform availability with Cavium’s ThunderX2® ArmV8.1 workload optimized data center server processors

SAN JOSE, CA, March 20, 2018 – 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 major milestone in its collaboration with Microsoft in the Open Compute Community with ThunderX2 Arm^®-based servers demonstrating the Project Olympus Platform.

A live demonstration that includes web applications hosted by a Windows IIS webserver running natively on ThunderX2 based on Microsoft’s Project Olympus platform will be shown at the Open Compute Project (OCP) U.S. Summit 2018 in San Jose, CA, at the Cavium booth A37 from March 20^th – 21^st.  The annual Summit brings together more than 3,000 key decision makers, executives, engineers, developers and suppliers. Together, they help grow, drive and support the open hardware ecosystem in, near and around the data center and beyond.

The ThunderX2 product family is Cavium's second generation 64-bit Armv8-A server processor SoC for data center, cloud and high-performance computing applications. The family integrates fully out-of-order high-performance custom cores supporting single and dual socket configurations. ThunderX2 is optimized to drive high computational performance delivering outstanding memory bandwidth and memory capacity. The new line of ThunderX2 processors includes multiple workload optimized SKUs for both scale up and scale out applications and is fully compliant with Armv8-A architecture specifications as well as Arm's SBSA and SBBR standards. It is also widely supported by industry-leading operating system, hypervisor and software tool and application vendors.

Cavium and Microsoft originally announced their collaboration at the OCP U.S. Summit in March 2017, where the two companies demonstrated cloud service workloads developed for Microsoft’s internal use running on ThunderX2-based server platform.  This was followed in November 2017 with the additional announcement of the companies releasing the detailed specification of ThunderX2 server motherboard for Microsoft’s Project Olympus including block diagram, management sub-system, power management, FPGA card support, IO connectors, and physical specifications.

“Today’s demonstration is another key milestone in the collaboration between Microsoft and Cavium to drive Armv8-based workload enablement and optimization in Microsoft’s Project Olympus,” said Dr. Leendert van Doorn, Distinguished Engineer, Azure, Microsoft Corp. “Our collective commitment to the OCP community along with exciting platform innovation is the type of leadership our customers and partners have come to expect.  Working with Cavium to bring ThunderX2 to Project Olympus continues to demonstrate this leadership.”

“We are very excited to expand our collaboration with Microsoft to demonstrate the first dual socket 64-bit Armv8-A OCP platform  with ThunderX2,” said Gopal Hegde, Vice President & General Manager of the Data Center Processor Group, Cavium. “ThunderX2 continues to demonstrate the features and performance required by the most compute and IO intensive applications in the data center.” 

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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 about the Company, 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, BT, Nokia and the Telecom Infra Project to Integrate OpenCellular Base Stations into Operators Networks

OC-LTE Base Stations Gain Automated Remote Network Management Capabilities

SAN JOSE, CA, and BARCELONA, SPAIN February 26, 2018 – Cavium™, Inc., a leading provider of semiconductor products that enable secure and intelligent processing for enterprise, data center, and wired and wireless networking, has partnered with the Telecom Infra Project (TIP) community to expand the functionality of OpenCellular LTE (OC-LTE) base stations.

The first OC-LTE design is now ready for field trials and will be followed by commercial deployments.  The OCTEON Fusion-enabled OC-LTE base station runs a commercial LTE stack contributed by Cavium to TIP.  As part of ongoing efforts to expand connectivity, Cavium has integrated with Nokia community hosted network, a unique solution to connect the unconnected supporting  OC-LTE.  This arrangement allows the OC-LTE base station for cloud-based remote auto-connection, configuration and monitoring. 

“We’re delighted to be hosting one of the 1st 4G trials of OpenCellular in the world. 4G has been the heart of our network from the birth of EE and this OC-LTE trial will drive further innovation to support EE’s push towards 95% geographic coverage,” said Mansoor Hanif, Director of Converged Networks Research Lab at BT. “The Cavium APIs make it very straight-forward to integrate management services onto the OC-LTE stack software. We were impressed by how quick it was to integrate with Nokia’s platform, which enables a sustainable community-supported deployment and operation in extremely remote areas of the UK where geographical and meteorological conditions heavily impact traditional solutions.”

“Our goal is to bring together all of the technologies an operator requires to deploy and manage OC-LTE base stations in the field,” said Kashif Ali, Facebook Co-chair of the OpenCellular project.  “The integration with the Nokia solution will enable fast field deployments and ongoing system management capabilities.”

“Integrating the OC-LTE basestation with the Nokia community-hosted network will provide a complete deployment solution for BT and other network operators,” said Jean-Francois Lacasse, Cavium Wireless Integration Manager and OC-LTE Radio Access Working Group Lead.  “The deployment-ready LTE stack provided by Cavium includes APIs that enable the integration of management capabilities which are critical to deploying OC-LTE basestations.”

Cavium will host a live demonstration of the Nokia community hosted network-enabled OC-LTE base station in booth 2M61 at MWC 2018 in Barcelona.

For more information on Cavium’s products or to schedule a meeting with Cavium at MWC 2018, please contact your local sales account manager or Lilly Ly (lly@cavium.com). Please enter Meeting Request at MWC 2018 in the subject line.

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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 about the Company, 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™ FastLinQ® Enables Scalable Networking for HyperConverged Infrastructure

Meets Challenging networking demands of HPE SimpliVity, Microsoft Windows Storage Spaces Direct and VMware vSAN while delivering predictable performance and scalability

SAN JOSE, CA – January 23, 2018 – Today, Cavium, Inc. (NASDAQ: CAVM), a leading provider of semiconductor products that enable secure and intelligent processing for enterprise and cloud data centers, announced that its family of FastLinQ^® 10/25GbE Ethernet NICs power HyperConverged Infrastructure (HCI) solutions from industry leaders like Microsoft® Windows Storage Spaces Direct, VMware® vSAN, and HPE SimpliVity® enabling linear scalability and predictable performance. The Cavium FastLinQ 10/25GbE family, with millions of Ethernet ports shipped, a flexible architecture and scalable high performance, is ideal for accelerating HyperConverged infrastructure solutions and is amongst the top choices for enterprise cloud data centers.

In the era of hybrid cloud and DevOps, IT departments are under tremendous pressure to move faster and be more agile. Traditional architectures driven by complex manual processes and non-integrated infrastructures cannot deliver the power, simplicity, and velocity that is necessary to meet the demands of the modern enterprise. HyperConverged infrastructure systems provide a simple, efficient, software-defined platform that combines networking and storage along with powerful orchestration software delivering the agility and economics of cloud for on-premises infrastructure. HyperConverged infrastructure systems empower IT to reduce cost and complexity while delivering service agility. Ethernet forms the networking backbone connecting HCI systems together and networking requirements can grow exponentially as these systems scale. The success of HyperConverged Infrastructures requires a resilient and scalable network architecture built on high-speed Ethernet NICs that ensure consistent performance and availability.

“HCI architectures encompass software defined methodologies that integrate compute, storage, and networking on commodity hardware to deliver a cost-effective solution that is simple to deploy, manage and scale. HCI is a fundamental building block of on-premises data centers for enterprises building hybrid clouds where 25GbE connectivity is in high demand,” said Cliff Grossner, Ph.D., senior research director and advisor of cloud and data center research practice for IHS Markit, a global business information provider. In a recent IHS Markit report [1], it was forecasted that 25GbE ports will represent 31% of total Ethernet adapter ports shipped in CY’21, signaling a strong need for Ethernet adapters that provide predictable low latency connectivity under fully loaded conditions.

“Cavium FastLinQ 10/25GbE Ethernet NICs with Universal RDMA are designed to accelerate networking for HyperConverged Systems while offloading server CPU,” said Christopher Moezzi, Vice President of Marketing, Ethernet Adapter Group, Cavium. “Customers deploying a wide range of HCI options from HPE, VMware and Microsoft can now leverage Cavium NICs to enable scale and flexibility to implement radical infrastructure simplification while reducing cost with 10GBASE-T.”

Ravi Rao, Group Manager, Windows Networking, Microsoft Corp. said, “Software-Defined Hyper-converged Storage with Windows Server 2016 Storage Spaces Direct are key elements of Windows Server Software Defined solution offerings that enable flexible, economical, and high-performance data centers. Software- Defined Data center Premium qualified Cavium FastLinQ 45000/41000 Series of 10/25GbE NICs with support for RoCE, RoCEv2, and iWARP deliver the ability to power software-defined Storage Spaces Direct architectures built using Windows Server 2016.”

“As customers deal with the rapid proliferation of apps and seek alternatives to legacy infrastructure, hyperconverged platforms are becoming a popular choice for modern workload deployment,” said McLeod Glass, VP of SimpliVity, Software-Defined and Cloud Product Management at Hewlett Packard Enterprise. “We are proud to offer HPE Ethernet 10GbE NICs based on Cavium FastlinQ 8400 series technology as options for our flagship SimpliVity 380 hyperconverged infrastructure portfolio that enables customers to precisely align our technology with an organization’s unique IT environment and workloads.”

Purpose built for accelerating and simplifying data center networking, Cavium FastLinQ Ethernet technology delivers:

•       Enterprise Features – A broad spectrum of Ethernet speeds ranging from 10GbE to 100GbE to host the most demanding enterprise, telco and cloud applications leveraging HyperConverged architectures. Cavium SmartAN™ technology enables adaptive link controls for seamless zero-touch interoperability with industry wide 25GbE switches and cables. Extensive and robust support of a broad variety of hypervisors like VMware ESXi, Windows Server Hyper-V, Citrix XenServer and KVM for seamless integration on diverse HyperConverged platforms.

•       Acceleration and Scalability for HCI – Industry’s only network adapter that delivers the ultimate choice and investment protection with concurrent support for RoCE, RoCEv2 and iWARP. Acceleration for Network Virtualization by offloading protocol processing for VxLAN, NVGRE, GRE and GENEVE enables customers to build and scale virtualized networks without impacting network performance.

•       Storage Acceleration - Concurrent protocol offload for NVMe-oF™, NVMe-Direct, SMB Direct, iSER, iSCSI and FCoE delivers up to 5M IOPS while consuming the fewer server CPU cycles, leaving headroom for virtual applications and higher RoI on server investments with seamless upgrade paths of next-generation storage connectivity.

•       Industry’s Most Comprehensive Network Adapter portfolio – Cavium offers the broadest set of Ethernet networking adapters – FastLinQ® Standard Ethernet adapters, Converged Networking adapters and LiquidIO™ SmartNICs that cover the entire spectrum of customer Ethernet connectivity and offload requirements.

Availability

The new FastLinQ Series 10/25Gbps Ethernet adapters are qualified for VMware vSAN and Microsoft Windows S2D and are available from Cavium and leading OEMs and ODMs worldwide. Cavium LiquidIO 10/25GbE SmartNICs are available directly through Cavium. 10GbE I/O options based on Cavium FastLinQ 8400 series technology for HPE SimpliVity DL380 are available from HPE.

For more information, visit www.cavium.com

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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.

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Angel Atondo
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Email: angel.atondo@cavium.com 

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Cavium and Enea Deliver Optimized Software and Hardware Platform for uCPE

Enea® NFV Access Software Platform Now Available for OCTEON TX™ ARMv8 based uCPE Systems

SAN JOSE, CA and STOCKHOLM, Sweden September 11, 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, and Enea® (NASDAQ Stockholm: ENEA), a global supplier of network software platforms and world class services, helping customers develop amazing functions for the connected society, today announced availability of optimized uCPE solutions based on Cavium OCTEON TX™ ARMv8 processor SoC families and Enea® NFV Access software platform.

Using universal customer premises equipment (uCPE), service providers offer their enterprise customers on-demand deployment with flexibility of choosing from a range of virtualized network appliances in terms of specific virtual network functions (VNF) and VNF vendors. In addition to the agile and flexible deployment benefits, the uCPE software platform provides a consistent management interface regardless of the selected network functions, and service-function-chaining of the subscribed VNFs for individual enterprise subscribers.

“uCPE provides on-demand deployment of multiple network functions previously each implemented as its own purpose built appliance, plus virtualization software platform in cost effective single-box COTS systems,” said Raj Singh Vice President & General Manager of the Network & Communication Group at Cavium. “Cavium’s highly integrated OCTEON TX ARMv8 processor SoC families, with high performance processing, exceptional power efficiency, hardware accelerators abstracted by standard APIs like DPDK, standard software eco-systems and cost effective and scalable white box hardware eco-systems, offer highly optimized uCPE processing solutions.”

“Enea NFV Access offers out-of-the-box VNF management and service function chaining for orchestrating on-demand agile VNF deployment - without the overhead that solutions originally developed for data centers carry with them,” said Karl Mörner, SVP Product Management, Enea. “Enea NFV Access is a versatile virtualization software platform streamlined for high networking performance and minimal footprint, and contributes to uCPE agility and innovation, reducing cost and complexity for computing at the network edge.”

Further Reading
Read more about Cavium Octeon TX here: http://www.cavium.com/OCTEON-TX_ARM_Processors.html 

Read more about Enea NFV Access here: https://www.enea.com/enea-nfv-access/

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.

About Enea 
Enea is a global supplier of network software platforms and world class services, with a vision of helping customers develop amazing functions in a connected society. We are committed to working together with customers and leading hardware vendors as a key contributor in the open source community, developing and hardening optimal software solutions. Every day, more than three billion people around the globe rely on our technologies in a wide range of applications in multiple verticals – from Telecom and Automotive, to Medical and Avionics. We have offices in Europe, North America and Asia, and are listed on Nasdaq Stockholm. Discover more at www.enea.com and start a conversation at info@enea.com. 

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

Erik Larsson
SVP Marketing & Communication, Enea
Phone: +33 1 70 81 19 00
E-mail: erik.larsson@enea.com

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Cavium and China Unicom Announce Trials of M-CORD NFV/5G Platforms in China

Demonstrates platform combining ThunderX® ARM V8.1 workload optimized data center server processors and XPliant® SDN fabric at Mobile World Congress Shanghai 2017

SAN JOSE, CA, and SHANGHAI, CHINA June 28, 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 and China Unicom today announced a targeted program for testing 5G target use cases on M-CORD SDN/NFV platform by using Cavium silicon-based white box hardware in M-CORD racks populated with ThunderX® ARM-based data center COTS servers and XPliant® programmable SDN Ethernet switch-based white box switches.

China Unicom and Cavium will shortly commence trials in several locations in mainland China to explore the new service.

Cavium and China Unicom will demonstrate Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) use cases developed through previously announced collaboration with China Unicom utilizing the ON.Lab M-CORD (Mobile Central Office Re-architected as data center) SDN/NFV platform at the Mobile World Congress Shanghai from Jun 28th – Jun 30th 2017. The conference will take place at the Shanghai New International Expo Centre (SNIEC), in the China United Network Communications Group Co., Ltd (“China Unicom”) booth at stand location W4.B20.

This M-CORD SDN/NFV software platform and hardware rack are fully integrated with virtualized and disaggregated mobile infrastructure elements from the edge of the Radio Access Network (RAN) to distributed mobile core and the ONOS and XOS SDN and orchestration software. It allows for a virtually turn-key operation in any central office or edge data center for a full NFV C-RAN deployment. The solution is a full Cavium powered rack combining the ThunderX® ARM based data center servers with the award winning highly programmable XPliant Ethernet leaf and spine SDN switches which enable a compelling platform for M-CORD.

“We are very excited to collaborate with China Unicom to explore 5G target use cases leveraging the M-CORD SDN/NFV platform and to work towards field deployment. 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 of M-CORD platform using Cavium silicon based white box hardware will allow operators such as China Unicom to rapidly implement next generation network topologies.”

“Our collaboration with Cavium continues to deliver real progress and we are looking forward to trying M-CORD and virtualized RAN implementation in our network,” said Dr. Tang Xiongyan, Chief Scientist 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. For more information about the Company, please visit: http://www.cavium.com/.

About China Unicom 
China Unicom was officially established on 15 October 2008, and is committed to forging itself into a world-leading innovative ICT service provider. As of 2015, China Unicom is ranked 207 among the Fortune Global 500. As a leading operator providing both fixed-line and mobile services in China, the subscriber number of fixed service and mobile service is more than 300 million, and its service covers 31 provincial branches and 7 overseas operations. It has about 400,000 employees. For more information about China Unicom, please visit  http://www.chinaunicom.com.cn

Media Contact
Angel Atondo
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Cavium, Inc.
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Cavium Announces Financial Results for Q3 2016

SAN JOSE, Calif., November 1, 2016 – Cavium, Inc. (NASDAQ: CAVM), a leading provider of semiconductor products that enable secure and intelligent processing for enterprise, data center, cloud, wired and wireless networking, today announced financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2016.
Cavium completed the acquisition of QLogic Corporation (“QLogic”) on August 16, 2016. The financial results for the third quarter of 2016 include results from QLogic from the closing date to the end of the quarter.

Net revenue in the third quarter of 2016 was $168.1 million, a 56.9% sequential increase from the $107.2 million reported in the second quarter of 2016 and 60.0% from the $105.1 million reported in the third quarter of 2015.

Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) Results
Net loss for the third quarter of 2016 was $14.4 million, or ($0.23) per diluted share, compared to $7.4 million, or $(0.13) per diluted share in the second quarter of 2016. Gross margins were 28.2% in the third quarter of 2016 compared to 66.9% in the second quarter of 2016. GAAP operating loss (GAAP loss from operations as a percentage of revenue) was 56.1% in the third quarter of 2016 compared to 6.4% in the second quarter of 2016. Total cash and cash equivalents were $192.4 million at September 30, 2016.

Non-GAAP Results
Cavium believes that the presentation of non-GAAP financial measures provides important supplemental information to management and investors regarding financial and business trends relating to Cavium’s financial condition and results of operations. Cavium believes that these non-GAAP financial measures provide additional insight into Cavium’s ongoing performance and has chosen to provide these measures for more consistent and meaningful comparison between periods. These measures should only be used to evaluate Cavium’s results of operations in conjunction with the corresponding GAAP measures. The reconciliation between GAAP and non-GAAP financial results is provided in the financial statements portion of this release.

In the third quarter of 2016, Non-GAAP net income was $28.0 million, or $0.43 per diluted share. Non-GAAP gross margin was 64.0% and Non-GAAP operating margin (non-GAAP income from operations as a percentage of revenue) was 19.2%.

Recent News Highlights

• October 31, 2016 - Cavium Introduced 10/25GbE Adapter Family for Open Compute Project Servers
• October 27, 2016 - Cavium QLogic Added PowerShell Integrated Management Solution for FastLinQ Ethernet Adapters
• October 25, 2016 - Cavium Showcased ARMv8 Processor Solutions to Accelerate Next Generation Infrastructure at ARM TechCon 2016
• October 25, 2016 - Cavium Showcased Highly Optimized Platforms for OpenStack Deployments at OpenStack Summit 2016
• October 25, 2016 - Cavium QLogic Accelerates Cloud Deployments with OpenStack Integration
• October 25, 2016 - SUSE Steps Up to Support Innovative ARM Solutions for Customers
• September 27, 2016 - Cavium QLogic Accelerates Software Defined Datacenters with Windows Server 2016
• August 30, 2016 - QLogic Showcased Multiple Technologies that Simplify and Accelerate Virtualized Server Deployments at VMworld 2016
• August 16, 2016 - Cavium Completed the Acquisition of QLogic
• August 16, 2016 - Cavium, Inc. Announced Successful Completion of the Exchange Offer in Connection with the Proposed Acquisition of QLogic Corporation
• August 10, 2016 - Cavium, Inc. Announced Extension of the Expiration of the Exchange Offer in Connection with the Proposed Acquisition of QLogic Corporation
• August 2, 2016 - Cavium, Inc. Announced the Expiration of HSR Waiting Period for the Acquisition of QLogic Corporation
• July 26, 2016 - Cavium Named Raghib Hussain Chief Operating Officer
• July 26, 2016 - Cavium Added Industry Veterans Brad W. Buss and Dr. Edward H. Frank to Board of Directors

Cavium will broadcast its third quarter of 2016 financial results conference call today, November 1, 2016, at 2 p.m. Pacific time (5 p.m. Eastern time). The conference call will be available via a live web cast on the investor relations section of the Cavium website at http://www.cavium.com. Please access the website at least a few minutes prior to the start of the call in order to download and install any necessary audio software. An archived web cast replay of the call will be available on the web site for a limited period of time.

About Cavium
Cavium offers a broad portfolio of integrated, software compatible processors ranging in performance from 1Gbps to 100Gbp that enable secure, intelligent functionality in Enterprise, Data Center, Broadband, Mobile and Service Provider Equipment, highly programmable switches which scale to 3.2Tbps and Ethernet and Fibre Channel adapters up to 100Gbps. Cavium processors are supported by ecosystem partners that provide operating systems, tools and application support, 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.

Cavium ContactAngel Atondo
Sr. Marketing Communications Manager
Tel: (408) 943-7417
Email:angel.atondo@cavium.com

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Cavium Introduces 10/25GbE Adapter Family for Open Compute Project Servers

QLogic® FastLinQ™ OCP adapters are designed to bring advanced 10/25GbE server connectivity to enterprise,hyperscale cloud service provider and telco data centers

SAN JOSE, CA – Oct. 31, 2016 – Today, Cavium, Inc. (NASDAQ: CAVM), a leading provider of semiconductor products that enable intelligent processing for enterprise and cloud data centers, today unveiled QLogic FastLinQ adapters for Open Compute Project (OCP) servers along with a rich suite of management software. The new line of adapters allows Cavium to extend its reach to the growing number of OCP servers being deployed at hyperscale and cloud service providers.

"New 25GbE technology is expected to displace 10GbE as the standard for server connectivity in the data center. By adding OCP adapters to their portfolio, Cavium expands its ability to address the fastest growing segment of the market, cloud service providers,” said Frank Berry, Senior Analyst, IT Brand Pulse.

“QLogic FastLinQ OCP adapters are designed from the ground up for software defined data centers where server connectivity has become critically important,” said Rajneesh Gaur, general manager and vice president of Ethernet Adapter Group, Cavium. “QLogic FastLinQ Ethernet adapters bring higher bandwidth, lower latency, and offload a long list of networking protocols so that cloud service providers can preserve server resources for workloads that generate revenue.”

Cavium QLogic FastLinQ QL34512 Adapters 
Designed to accelerate Network Virtualization workloads, the FastLinQ QL34512 adapter delivers intelligent offloads for NVGRE, VxLAN and GENEVE tunneling protocols, providing an innovative solution delivering flexibility and cost savings for next generation enterprise, hyperscale CSP, tier 2/3 CSP, and telco data centers. The 10Gb version QL34152HOCU is available today and the 25Gb version scheduled for release in early 2017.

The FastLinQ OCP Ethernet Adapter provides the following key capabilities:

• Accelerates Server Performance: Boosts network performance with full line-rate throughput across both ports, optimizes infrastructure costs and increases virtual machine density by leveraging in-built technologies like SR-IOV and Network Partitioning (NPAR) that deliver acceleration and QoS for tenant workloads and infrastructure traffic. 
• Network Virtualization Offloads – Acceleration for Network Virtualization by offloading protocol processing for VxLAN, NVGRE, GRE and GENEVE, enabling customers to build and scale virtualized networks without impacting network performance.
• Comprehensive Management – Single pane of glass, web-based and distributed adapter management solution with QConvergeConsole® (QCC) available across heterogeneous platforms and OSes, automates and simplifies the deployment and orchestration of physical and virtual infrastructure.
• OpenStack Integration: Cavium QLogic technologies like the Plug-in for Mirantis® Fuel for automatic SR-IOV configuration across multiple OpenStack nodes, QCC driven OpenStack physical and logical topology maps and the ability to deliver QoS for network functions enable hyperscale deployments with Cavium QLogic Ethernet NICs to be accelerated with OpenStack.
• Industry’s Most Comprehensive Network Adapter portfolio – Cavium as a company offers the broadest set of Ethernet networking adapters - FastLinQ™ Standard Ethernet Adapters, Converged Networking Adapters and LiquidIO™ Intelligent NICs that cover the entire spectrum of customer Ethernet connectivity and offload requirements.

For more information go to www.qlogic.com and www.opencompute.org

About OCP:
The OCP is creating a set of technologies that are disaggregated and fully open, allowing for rapid innovation in the data center. The OCP aims to facilitate the development of network hardware and software – together with trusted project validation and testing – in a truly open and collaborative community environment. The OCP project was initiated by Facebook and is now a widely accepted standard.

About Cavium
Cavium, Inc. (NASDAQ: CAVM), offers a broad portfolio of integrated, software compatible processors ranging in performance from 1Gbps to 100Gbp that enable secure, intelligent functionality in Enterprise, Data Center, Broadband, Mobile and Service Provider Equipment, highly programmable switches which scale to 3.2Tbps and Ethernet and Fibre Channel adapters up to 100Gbps. Cavium processors are supported by ecosystem partners that provide operating systems, tools and application support, 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 gets the Microsoft tick of approval

Cavium is a leading provider of semiconductor products for data centers. At the Microsoft Ignite 2016 event the company announced its support for Microsoft Windows Server 2016.

The QLogic portfolio of ethernet and fibre channel adapters from Cavium are now fully qualified for Microsoft Windows Server 2016.

Which - according to the semiconductor company - enables key public, private and hybrid cloud capabilities, that allow IT functions to adapt rapidly to the ever changing landscape.

Windows Server 2016 is Microsoft's cloud-ready server operating system. Cavium says it delivers new levels of security, performance, resiliency and cost efficiency, enabling organizations to innovate faster to compete effectively.

Ravi Rao, principal PM manager for Windows Server at Microsoft, says RDMA is key to Microsoft’s strategy for a software defined hybrid cloud infrastructure based on Windows Server 2016.

“QLogic FastLinQ Ethernet adapters deliver a rich feature set including Routable RDMA capabilities and great Ethernet performance as well - enabling customers to leverage Microsoft technologies like Hyper-V, SMB Direct and Storage Spaces Direct in their journey to build a secure, efficient and hyper-converged data center," explains Rao.

As well as its complete portfolio of I/O adapters, the QConvergeConsole management application delivers a comprehensive set of capabilities for all Windows Server 2016 implementations.

Rajneesh Gaur, general manager and vice president of the Ethernet Adapter Group at Cavium, says the portfolio provides a cutting edge set of networking technologies for Azure-inspired hybrid cloud deployments.

"These products epitomize the innovation and value that QLogic adapters deliver in Microsoft Windows 2016 with connectivity speeds ranging from 10GbE to 100GbE.”

 Source:Datacenternews.asia

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