Cavium QLogic Delivers Expanded Options for Server and Storage Connectivity

New QLogic® FastLinQ™ Ethernet and Gen 6 Fibre Channel adapters power HPE ProLiant and Apollo servers 

SAN JOSE, CA – January 17, 2017 – Cavium, Inc. (NASDAQ: CAVM), a leading provider of products that enable intelligent processing for enterprise and cloud data centers, today announced that Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has recently launched new I/O adapters providing server and storage connectivity to HPE ProLiant and Apollo Gen9 servers based on Cavium’s QLogic Fibre Channel and Ethernet technology. Available now, the HPE FlexFabric 10Gb 4-port 536FLR-T Adapter and the HPE StoreFabric SN1600Q 32GFC HBA enable Enterprise, Telco and Cloud applications to be accelerated while reducing deployment cost.

QLogic FastLinQ Quad Port 10GBASE-T Adapter for HPE
The HPE FlexFabric 10Gb 4-port 536FLR-T Adapter is the first 4-port 10GbE offering available for the HPE ProLiant and Apollo Gen9 servers and is designed in HPE’s unique Flexible LOM form factor with 10GBASE-T connections that utilize low cost Cat6a cables and RJ-45 connections. Eliminating the need for expensive 10GbE SFP+ optic greatly reduces the deployment costs for HPE customers. The HPE FlexFabric 10Gb 4-port 536FLR-T adapter provides standard Ethernet NIC connectivity and is backward compatible with 1GbE for HPE servers.

“Cavium is a leading provider for I/O connectivity for a broad range of HPE servers,” said Raghib Hussain, Chief Operating Officer, Cavium. “The introduction of QLogic FastLinQ 4-port 10GBASE-T technology brings low cost Ethernet connectivity, while the Gen 6 Fibre Channel 32GFC adapter delivers a high performance and reliable storage interconnect for world class HPE server infrastructure. This is an important milestone in enabling Enterprise datacenters and service providers to increase operational efficiency and application performance enabling an agile IT infrastructure.”

"As customers modernize their data centers by deploying a hybrid infrastructure, they are looking for versatile solutions. The HPE FlexFabric 10Gb 4-port 536FLR-T Adapter provides an affordable upgrade path from 1GBASE-T to 10GBASE-T to accelerate our customers’ networking dependent applications from the datacenter to the cloud,” said Tom Lattin, Vice President of Server Options for Hewlett Packard Enterprise.

Key Ethernet Technologies and Features

·         HPE FlexFabric 10Gb 4-port 536FLR-T Adapter provides 4-port 10GBASE-T connectivity which is automatically backward compatible with 1GbE networks.

·         Supports both iSCSI and FCoE storage offloads that conserve server CPU resources giving applications headroom and increasing virtual machine density.

·         Advanced Server Virtualization features that include Single Root I/O virtualization (SR-IOV) for low latency high performance virtual workloads.

·         Acceleration for Networking Virtualization with Stateless Offloads for tunneling protocols including NVGRE, VXLAN and GRE.

QLogic Gen 6 Fibre Channel for HPE
The HPE StoreFabric SN1600Q 32GFC Host Bus Adapter is the first Gen 6 32GFC offering in the HPE portfolio. This new adapter based on QLogic 2700 series adapter technology provides HPE customers with twice the bandwidth and improves database performance with 50-80%[1] more IOPS at common database block sizes when compared to Gen 5 16GFC offerings.

 Key Fibre Channel Features and Benefits

·         The HPE StoreFabric SN1600Q 32GFC HBA is available in both single and dual-port offerings and is shipped by HPE with SFP+ optics included.

·         QLogic StorFusion technology and integration with Brocade Gen 5 and Gen 6 Fibre Channel switches and directors simplify SAN deployment and improve uptime.

·         Built-in support for HPE Smart SAN for HPE 3PAR within these adapters provides fully automated SAN fabric orchestration and management directly from HPE 3PAR StoreServ flash arrays, saving hours of manual effort and reducing risk due to human error or network changes.

·         HPE has qualified this adapter to work in select Microsoft Windows Server and Linux environments and has a strong roadmap of upcoming operating system qualifications.

·         Integration with HPE management utilities like iLO and System Upgrade Manager (SUM) as well as by QLogic QConvergeConsole™ software utility and VMware plugin available for download at www.qlogic.com.

All these new adapters were announced by HPE on September 26th and begin shipping in volume now.

For more information, visit www.hpe.com and www.qlogic.com

About Cavium

Cavium, Inc. (NASDAQ: CAVM), offers a broad portfolio of integrated, software compatible processors ranging in performance from 1Gbps to 100Gbps that enable secure, intelligent functionality in Enterprise, Data Center, Broadband/Consumer, 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, China and Taiwan. For more information, please visit: http://www.cavium.com.

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

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Cavium's XPliant® Family of Ethernet Switches Receive Linley Group's Analysts' Choice Award for Best Networking Chip 2016

SAN JOSE, CA – January 16, 2017 – Cavium, Inc. (NASDAQ: CAVM), a leading provider of products that enable intelligent processing for enterprise and cloud data centers, today announced that Cavium’s XPliant CNX880xx family of Ethernet switches received the Linley Group’s Analyst Choice Award for the “Best Networking Chip” in 2016.

“We selected Cavium’s XPliant Ethernet switch as our winner due to its customer programmability, which enables customers to differentiate their products through unique features and also enables in-field upgradability,” said Bob Wheeler, principal analyst, the Linley Group.

“Cavium is very honored to receive this Analyst Choice Award from the Linley Group for the XPliant Ethernet Switch,” said Eric Hayes, VP/GM Switch Platform Group at Cavium.  “To be formally recognized for getting the world’s first customer programmable hyper scale data center switching solution into production, including the software tools that enable developers to seamlessly create unique value added features and perform in field upgrades is a testament to the Cavium team’s ability to aggressively innovate and execute.”

Cavium’s XPliant Ethernet switch family is the first to deliver a high throughput programmable ASIC that is shipping today in production.  Multiple major OEMs including Arista and Brocade have announced Ethernet switching systems built from this XPliant silicon. These customers have leveraged the XPliant flexible programmability to create their own custom pipelines delivering multiple innovations, including but not limited to, scalable table lookups, visibility and telemetry.

In addition to programmability, the XPliant family of Ethernet switches offers a fully centralized shared packet buffer architecture to absorb large bursts. It supports dynamic port configuration and mixed mode port speeds from 1G, 10G, 25G, 40G, 50G and 100G. It also supports both 25GE Consortium and IEEE 802.3by specification and provides connectivity solutions for embedded applications.

The Linley Group Analysts' Choice Awards recognize the top semiconductor products of 2016 in seven categories: embedded processors, mobile processors, server processors, processor-IP cores, mobile chips, networking chips, and best technology. To choose each winner, The Linley Group's team of technology analysts focus on the merits of the leading products that entered production (or, in the case of IP, released to RTL) during 2016.  They evaluate the combined advantages in power, performance, features, and cost of each device for their target end application and market. 

About The Linley Group 

The Linley Group is the industry's leading source for independent technology analysis of semiconductors for networking, communications, mobile, and data-center applications. The company provides strategic consulting services, in-depth analytical reports, and conferences focused on advanced technologies for chip and system design. The Linley Group also publishes the weekly Microprocessor Report, Networking Report, and Mobile Chip Report. For insights on recent industry news, subscribe to the company's free email newsletters: Linley Wire, Linley on Mobile and Processor Watch.

About Cavium

Cavium, Inc. (NASDAQ: CAVM), offers a broad portfolio of integrated, software compatible processors ranging in performance from 1Gbps to 100Gbps that enable secure, intelligent functionality in Enterprise, Data Center, Broadband/Consumer, 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, China and Taiwan. For more information, please visit: http://www.cavium.com.

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

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Cavium's XPliant™ Ethernet Switch Supports the Emerging Open Ecosystems

Open Compute Project (OCP), Open Network Install Environment (ONIE) and Switch Abstraction Interface (SAI)

SAN JOSE, California/PRNewswire/ -- Open Compute US Summit 2015 – Cavium, Inc., (NASDAQ: CAVM), a leading provider of semiconductor products that enable intelligent processing for enterprise, data center, wired and wireless networking today announced its commitment  to driving an open ecosystem for data center switching.  Qualification of hardware platforms as well as standardization of software interfaces enables both OEM and 3rd party innovation ushering in a new era in open Ethernet switching.

The Open Compute Project (OCP) was created with the goal of developing the most efficient data center designs for scalable solutions, by openly sharing ideas, specifications and other intellectual property. A growing number of established networking vendors are adopting OCP, contributing their own intellectual property. Cavium's XPliant team is working with both hardware and software vendors to submit OCP designs. This combination enables XPliant Packet Architecture™ (XPA)-powered switches to be the most flexible and open customer friendly architecture in the market.

The Open Network Install Environment (ONIE) is an OCP open source initiative that enables the decoupling of Ethernet switch hardware from networking software. Using a switch supplied with ONIE, the customer can freely add the software of their choice. The OCP specification has also defined an open API, Switch Abstraction Interface (SAI) that enables networking software to be written independent of the switch silicon used. This allows customers and systems developers to write their software and independently pick the best switch to support it. XPliant switch SDK (software development kit) has full support of ONIE and has incorporated SAI. This enables customers to migrate from legacy switch architectures and easily adopt XPliant-powered switching solutions.

Cavium's XPliant Ethernet switch silicon combines the highest level of flexibility and performance which is unprecedented in the networking industry. The XPliant CNX880xx family of Ethernet switches provides an unparalleled flexibility in protocol processing without compromising throughput. Combining the new XPliant switch silicon with the emerging hardware and software open ecosystem will now enable true software defined networking (SDN).

The XPliant Packet Architecture (XPA) allows programming of every element of switch packet processing increasing feature velocity and rapid deployment of differentiating features. The XPliant switch features include:

• 3.2 Tbps 32x100G Ethernet switch
• Support of 25G Ethernet Consortium
• XPliant Packet Architecture (XPA) – Enables longer switch life-cycles and avoids fork-lift upgrades
• One box, multiple products – single XPliant hardware switch optimized for multiple places in network via custom software

"Customers building cloud infrastructures are increasingly turning to open network solutions which are optimized for web-scale applications," said George Tchaparian, CEO at Edge-Core Networks and GM of Data Center Networks at Accton Technology.  "Accton is developing 100GbE data center switches based on Cavium XPliant Ethernet Switch silicon, which Edge-Core will deliver to data center, telecom and enterprise customers who require the increased capacity, performance and flexibility which XPliant silicon enables."

"Cavium is a valued partner for Inventec and our collaboration will expand our software defined networking solutions and deliver the open networking platforms to our customers," said Daphne Chen, Director of Network Infrastructure Design Center at Inventec Corporation. "The flexibility powered by their XPA architecture of XPliant Ethernet switch enables the innovation to meet the demands and complexities imposed by the rapidly evolving data center environment."

Cavium is committed to providing open switch networking solutions, enabling the industry to easily migrate from legacy architectures to new efficient solutions for software defined data centers. Attendees at the Open Compute Project US Summit can visit Cavium in booth C12 and Accton in booth D22.

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.

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