Cavium 25/50Gbps Ethernet Adapter Technology Powers Hewlett Packard Enterprise Synergy

FastLinQ® 25/50GbE enables HPE customers to realize the potential of the HPE Synergy composable infrastructure

SAN JOSE, CA – July 18, 2017 – 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, announced today that its FastLinQ® Ethernet 25/50GbE technology will power HPE® Synergy®480 and 660 Gen10 compute modules. The introduction for this new class of I/O connectivity for the HPE Synergy Gen 9 and Gen 10 compute modules provides significant density, cost and power benefits and enables acceleration of enterprise, telco and cloud applications.

Cavium FastLinQ NICs are built from the ground up to bridge traditional and new IT with the agility, speed and continuous delivery needed for today’s applications. Based on the innovative technology from Cavium and HPE, customers can run more demanding workloads and applications that require higher bandwidth and lower latency than existing I/O offerings. This includes hybrid cloud, Big Data, high performance compute and traditional enterprise applications.

Cavium 25/50Gb Ethernet Adapter Technology for HPE
The HPE Synergy 6810C 25/50Gb Ethernet adapter, powered by Cavium’s QL45604 controller, delivers high bandwidth and low latency connectivity for the HPE Synergy platform. This dual-port 25/50Gb adapter provides 2.5 times the available server I/O bandwidth for HPE Synergy Gen 9 and Gen 10 compute modules vs. previous generation, allowing HPE customers to improve workload performance. With support for RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE), I/O latency is significantly reduced to increase application performance.

"Cavium is a leading provider for I/O connectivity for a broad range of HPE servers," said Rajneesh Gaur, VP and General Manager, Ethernet Adapter Group, at Cavium. "The introduction of the HPE Synergy 6810C 25/50Gb Ethernet adapter based on Cavium technology brings high-performance and low latency Ethernet connectivity for world-class HPE Synergy composable infrastructure. This is an important milestone in enabling enterprise data centers and service providers to increase operational efficiency and application performance enabling an agile IT infrastructure."

“The ability to provide high-performance 25/50Gb Ethernet connectivity within HPE Synergy, the industry’s first platform for composable infrastructure, enables our customers to greatly improve application performance and virtual machine scalability, while significantly reducing hardware and management complexity. In addition, Cavium’s Ethernet technology supports enhanced security features and secure firmware updates in HPE Gen10 servers, providing customers increased protection against firmware attacks,” said Tom Lattin, Vice President of Server Options for Hewlett Packard Enterprise.

Key Ethernet technologies and features include:

• HPE Synergy 6810C 25/50Gb Ethernet adapter supports up to 100Gbps bi-directional bandwidth for enhanced network performance.
• Designed to support HPC clusters, computational, financial and other applications requiring low-latency network connectivity with support for RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE). Also capable of supporting Internet Wide Area RDMA Protocol (iWARP) with future firmware upgrade.
• DPDK support provides small packet acceleration capability for telco, ecommerce and other applications.
• Advanced Server Virtualization features that include Single Root I/O virtualization (SR-IOV) for low latency high-performance virtual workloads.
• Support for PXE boot, IPV6 and HPE Sea of Sensor 3D Technology to simplify connectivity and improve overall TCO of the network connectivity.
• Acceleration for Networking Virtualization with Stateless Offloads for tunneling protocols including NVGRE, VxLAN and GRE.

Security Features

• Authenticated updates for NICs validate that signed firmware is correct and trusted to eliminate rogue firmware installation.
• Secure Boot safeguards the NIC and ensures no rogue drivers are being executed on start-up.
• Sanitization (Secure User Data Erase) renders user and configuration data on the NIC irretrievable so that NICs can be safely repurposed or disposed.

Availability
The new HPE Synergy 6810C 25/50Gb Ethernet adapter was recently announced by HPE on July 11th, 2017 and will be shipping in the third quarter of 2017.

For more information, visit

• Cavium FastLinQ Ethernet Portfolio for HPE Servers: http://www.qlogic.com/OEMPartnerships/HP/Documents/Why_Cavium_Technology_for_HPE.pdf
•  http://www.hpe.com/us/en/servers/networking.html and www.cavium.com.

About CaviumCavium, 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 Unveils Industry’s Most Advanced 10/25/40/50Gbps Ethernet NIC Family

FastLinQ® 41000 Series enable Next Generation Cloud Data center and Enterprise with a Flexible, Future Proof, Secure and comprehensive networking and storage solution

SAN JOSE, CA – June 27, 2017 – Today, Cavium, Inc. (NASDAQ: CAVM), a leading provider of semiconductor products that enable secure and intelligent processing for enterprise and cloud data centers, announced the FastLinQ 41000 Series, its low power, second generation of 10/25/40/50GbE NIC and the industry's only NIC adapter with Universal RDMA, making it the industry's most advanced 10/25/40/50Gbps Ethernet NIC Family. Leveraging over a decade of networking technology expertise and industry leadership, the cost and power optimized FastLinQ 41000 Series deliver advanced networking for cloud and telco architectures. FastLinQ 41000 Series NICs are available immediately from Cavium and will soon be available from leading Tier-1 OEMs and ODMs worldwide in standard, mezzanine, LOM and OCP form factors.

The unprecedented growth in demand for bandwidth is driving data center networks to be scalable and offer on-demand bandwidth provisioning and application agility. Data centers are expanding at a rapid pace as is the virtualization and container density for compute, driving the need for higher bandwidth between the server and switches. 25GbE, a new standard in networking, leverages the maximum potential of Multi-core processors, NVMe flash storage and cloud architectures to deliver 2.5 times the performance, reducing the power and cost per gigabit significantly[1]. Although the cost, power and performance benefits of 25Gbps Ethernet technology are undisputed, enterprise and cloud data centers investing in 25GbE also require a flexible and highly interoperable solution. This can be a challenge considering the mix of pre-standard and standard-based 25GbE products in the market. In addition, the recent spurs in malware-led intrusion and data theft are driving private and public cloud networks to ensure that only trusted and validated software components get deployed. Enterprise and cloud data centers also have differing requirements driven by infrastructure and application workloads for latency and congestion management, so flexibility of the networking solution is key. Cavium FastLinQ 41000 Series family effectively addresses these challenges while delivering a flexible and future proof networking solution.

The FastLinQ QL41000 family is the second generation of standards compliant 25/50GbE NICs and the industry’s only NIC adapter family that delivers customers the technology choice and investment protection with support for concurrent RoCE, RoCEv2 and iWARP – Universal RDMA.  The FastLinQ adapters coupled with leading server and networking platforms enable enterprise data centers to optimize their infrastructure costs and increase virtual machine density by leveraging built-in technologies like concurrent SR-IOV and NIC Partitioning (NPAR) that deliver acceleration and QoS for tenant workloads and infrastructure traffic.  Additionally, the FastLinQ adapters provide full Network Function Virtualization with excellent small packet performance with integration into DPDK and OpenStack enabling Cloud and Telcos/NFV customers to seamlessly deploy, manage and accelerate the most demanding artificial intelligence, Big Data, CDN and Machine Learning workloads. Storage Acceleration and offloads like NVMe-oF™, NVMe-Direct, iSCSI, iSER and FCoE built into the FastLinQ QL41000 enable seamless upgrade paths from existing storage paradigms to next generation NVMe and persistent memory semantics. Enabling zero-touch automatic speed and FEC selection, Cavium FastLinQ SmartAN™ technology virtually eliminates interoperability challenges in physical layer networks.

“The addition of FastLinQ 41000 Series of highly optimized 10/25/40/50GbE NICs to Cavium’s broad Ethernet NIC portfolio enables Cavium to meet and exceed the requirements of the most demanding enterprise, telco and cloud applications and deliver scalability to drive business growth,” said Rajneesh Gaur, Vice President and General Manager of Ethernet Adapter Group, Cavium. “FastLinQ 41000 Series provides a highly differentiated solution by delivering flexibility in choice of RDMA and seamless interoperability with a broad ecosystem of Ethernet switching and server solutions using SmartAN™ technology”.

Purpose-built for accelerating and simplifying data center networking, Cavium FastLinQ 41000 Series Ethernet technology delivers:

•     Enterprise Class Reliability, Flexibility and Security – With millions of Ethernet ports shipped, and a flexible architecture that delivers faster time to market and future proofing for new and emerging technologies, FastLinQ Ethernet NICs are amongst the top choices for enterprise data centers. Cavium SmartAN technology enables adaptive link controls for seamless zero-touch interoperability with industry wide 25/100GbE switches and cables. Extensive and robust support of a broad variety of enterprise and cloud operating systems, including Microsoft Windows, Linux, VMware ESXi, FreeBSD and Solaris for seamless integration for diverse application platforms across x86, ARM, SPARC and Power8 architectures. Support for UEFI Secure Boot safeguards the FastLinQ NIC and ensures no rogue drivers are being executed on start-up, preventing the injection of malware.

•    Cloud Ready – 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. Authenticated updates for NICs validate that signed firmware is correct and trusted to eliminate rogue firmware installation, reducing attack surfaces.

•      Storage Acceleration – Concurrent full offload for NVMe-oF™, NVMe-Direct, SMB Direct, iSER, iSCSI and FCoE delivers up to 3M IOPS while consuming fewer server CPU cycles, leaving headroom for virtual applications and higher ROI on server investments with seamless upgrade paths of next gen storage connectivity.

•   Telco and Network Function Virtualization (NFV) – Leading small packet performance, with line rate packet per second for 10/25Gbps Ethernet, MPLSoUDP offload, and integration with DPDK and OpenStack with Mirantis FUEL Plug-in, enables Telco’s and NFV application vendors to seamlessly deploy, manage and accelerate the most demanding NFV workloads.

FastLinQ 41000 Series Product Features:

·         10/25/40/50Gbps Ethernet connectivity across standard and OCP form factors

·         PCIe Gen 3 x8 with backward compatibility

·         Passive heat sink design

·         Universal RDMA – Concurrent RoCE, RoCEv2 and iWARP

·         Stateless offloads for VxLAN, NVGRE, GENEVE

·         SmartAN for seamless 10/25GbE interoperability

·         Full Storage protocol offloads for iSCSI, FCoE, iSER, NVMe-oF, SMB Direct

·         Secure Firmware Update and UEFI secure boot

·         Comprehensive Management across heterogeneous platforms with QConvergeConsole GUI and CLI

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™ Intelligent NICs that cover the entire spectrum of customer Ethernet connectivity and offload requirements. Cavium Ethernet adapters are trusted by customers worldwide.

Cavium FastLinQ 41000 Series are available now. For more information, visit www.qlogic.com and www.cavium.com.

To learn more about how Cavium FastLinQ Universal RDMA Technology can deliver the ultimate in flexibility and choice - register for a joint Cavium – The Linley Group Webinar 

Partner Supporting Quotes

“Arista Networks, as a fellow founder of the 25G Ethernet consortium, recognizes the need for a strong ecosystem. We have partnered with Cavium to ensure availability of tested and interoperable solutions for hyperscale data centers,” said Martin Hull, Senior Director Product Management for Arista Networks. “Cavium FastLinQ 41000 Series of 10/25G NICs and Arista’s portfolio of 25G leaf and spine systems deliver backward compatibility and investment protection with standards compliance.”

“Software Defined Networking and Storage Spaces Direct are the foundation of Windows Server Software Defined (WSSD) solution offerings – a key tenet of Microsoft’s hybrid cloud strategy that enables highly flexible, economical, and cloud-scale data centers,” said Ravi Rao, Group Manager, Windows Networking, Microsoft Corp. “We are pleased to see Cavium FastLinQ 41000 Series of 10/25GbE NICs, with support for RoCE, RoCEv2, and iWARP, achieve SDDC Premium certification that proves their ability to power software defined data centers built using Windows Server 2016.”

“Most clouds and data centers today run on Ubuntu, the leading Cloud OS. Canonical is pleased to partner with Cavium FastLinQ to announce NVMe-oF support on Ubuntu 17.04 to supply the industry’s high performing and low-latency storage networks needed for today's data centric applications,” said Anand Krishnan, EVP of Cloud, Canonical

"Today's enterprise and telecommunications infrastructures rely on open source innovations like OpenStack and Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK). These same infrastructures also require a new level of connectivity, such as that enabled by the Cavium FastLinQ™ 41000 Series,” said Gunnar Hellekson, senior director, Product Management, Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat Virtualization, Red Hat. “Red Hat is proud to help lead this open source innovation, and we are pleased to work with Cavium and other contributors on technologies such as RDMA and DPDK to help power the open, connected infrastructure of the future."

“As software defined infrastructures evolve and newer kinds of workloads are deployed on SDDC, requirements for network virtualization offloads, higher bandwidth, lower costs and simplified management are increasing,” said Sudhanshu (Suds) Jain, Product Manager, VMware. “Sharing the vision of simplified infrastructure operations and increased application performance, VMware is pleased to collaborate with Cavium to bring technology advancements like FastLinQ 10/25GbE NICs with VxLAN and GENEVE offloads to the market.”

    

Analyst Supporting Quotes

The Cavium FastLinQ 41000 Series should have broad market appeal given its support for the many protocols and features required by today’s diverse and dynamic marketplace,” said Seamus Crehan, President of Crehan Research. “Designed to address the rapidly changing needs of the data center and the specific needs of mega data centers run by telecommunications providers, MSPs and enterprise private clouds.”

“Cavium FastLinQ 41000 Series of network adapters address the demanding needs of the next-generation agile data center by providing a flexible and future-proof solution,” said Shane Rau, Research Vice President, Computing Semiconductors of IDC. “With a compelling set of offloads for both server and storage applications, along with a flexible architecture, these second-generation 25GbE NICs from Cavium are well poised to ride the wave of networking interconnects.”

“The data center market is well into a ramp for deployment of 25/50GbE, with significant deployments in large cloud service providers (CSPs) looking to migrate from 10GbE server connectivity to 25GbE server connectivity with 100GbE switching. Mainstream enterprises are expected to follow later in 2017,” said Cliff Grossner, Ph.D., Research Director and Advisor, Data Center Research Practice, IHS Markit.  “In a recent IHS Markit report, we discovered that 25GE ports are expected to represent 31% of adapter ports shipped by 2021. The introduction of 25GbE adapters targeting cloud, telco NFV, and enterprise specific use cases are an important and timely event advancing the networking market, driving new opportunity.” ^[2]

“Data centers are in the midst of a rapid migration to distributed applications, a massive expansion in the size of the clustered server environments--which together are driving a huge increase in IP traffic inside the data center,” said Frank Berry, Founder and Senior Analyst at IT Brand Pulse. “Servers in these data centers need both high bandwidth and low latency network connectivity. Cavium 41000 Series adapters more than meet the challenge by providing up to 100Gb throughput and multiple ultra-low latency technologies including RoCE, iWARP and DPDK kernel bypass.”

“The FastLinQ QL41000 Series represents the Swiss army knife of 25G Ethernet adapters,” said Bob Wheeler, Principal Analyst at The Linley Group. “These NICs are unique in supporting both RoCE and iWARP while also providing a broad set of storage and virtualization offloads.”  

“Traditional network infrastructures are rigid and complex, making it both time-consuming and error prone to deploy workloads that require network changes,” said Paul Teich, Principal Analyst at TIRIAS Research. “Organizations can achieve rapid scale and agility when they adopt software-defined network (SDN) and software-defined storage (SDS) models for deployment and management. Look beyond server virtualization to achieve higher efficiency while also solving operational and security challenges.”

Resources:

a.    Cavium FastLinQ 41000 Series Product Page

b.    Universal RDMA The Linley Group White Paper

c.    25Gbps Ethernet Technology

d.    Accelerate Live Migration with RDMA

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 FastLinQ® 25/100GbE Ethernet Adapter Accelerates Telco NFV & Cloud Workloads

Delivers breakthrough performance with Data Plan Development Kit (DPDK) 

SAN JOSE, CA – April 3, 2017 – Today, Cavium, Inc. (NASDAQ: CAVM), a leading provider of products that enable intelligent and secure processing for enterprise and cloud data centers, announced that its FastLinQ® 45000 Series 25/100Gb Ethernet Adapter technology that delivers a breakthrough performance of up to 200Gbps throughput is completely integrated into Data Plan Development Kit (DPDK). Cavium FastLinQ technology can now host the most demanding Network Function Virtualization (NFV) and cloud workloads while reducing deployment costs.

"Telco and cloud service providers are embracing NFV to fundamentally change the architecture of their networks to obtain greater service agility and reduce costs," said Cliff Grossner, Ph.D., senior research director & advisor for cloud, data center and SDN at IHS Market. "In a recent IHS Market report, 63% of service provider respondents want improved operational efficiencies without sacrificing carrier grade performance and quality. This will drive the need for solutions providing 100Gbps Ethernet high-performance CPU offload for NFV and cloud workloads providing operational efficiencies with reducing deployment costs."^[1]

"Cavium FastLinQ cutting-edge NIC technologies and joint innovation with leading NFV and cloud infrastructure partners eliminate the performance barrier associated with realizing and deploying NFV and cloud solutions," said Rajneesh Gaur, Vice President and General Manager, Ethernet Adapter Group, Cavium. "Moreover, this groundbreaking performance combined with the intelligence and offload capabilities of our FastLinQ family of 25/100Gb Ethernet Adapters empowers NFV and cloud platforms to deliver exceptional levels of service and application processing, while offloading packet I/O."

"As Telecom operators are deploying their NFV solutions in production environments, they require reliable carrier grade platforms and infrastructure which have the data packet processing performance necessary to support virtualized network functions (VNF's). HPE continues to invest in our HPE NFV Infrastructure Lab where our team works with leading NIC providers like Cavium to test and optimize our HPE Servers to provide industry leading performance for Telco workloads," said Claus Pedersen, Director, Communication Service Provider Platforms, Data Center Infrastructure Group, Hewlett Packard Enterprise.

"Cloud and telco providers need high performance Ethernet connectivity solutions and innovative designs in order to achieve new levels of scalability, reliability and efficiency as they deploy, manage, and operate services in a virtualized environment," said Sameh Boujelbene, senior director, Dell'Oro Group. "We expect 100Gb Ethernet market to answer some of these challenges and to grow significantly over the next few years and we see Cavium FastLinQ 45000 Series well positioned to benefit from this opportunity."

With up to 200Gbps of Ethernet line rate throughput, the FastLinQ 45000 series 25/100Gb Ethernet Adapters offer an extremely expansive set of features and protocols, delivering the following key benefits for cloud and Telco deployments:

• Increased Performance and Scalability for NFV and cloud Workloads: Cavium FastLinQ 45000 Series 25/100Gb Ethernet Adapters leverage industry standard technologies combined with impressive small packet performance to deliver enhanced scalability and improved performance. FastLinQ 100GbE Ethernet adapters are optimized for software-defined networking (SDN) and OpenStack deployments to deliver a robust and feature rich high speed networking solution for Telco and Cloud deployments.

• Improved Server Utilization: Cavium FastLinQ 100GbE solutions provide hardware offloaded protocol processing, which results in a significant reduction of the CPU burden and improves overall server efficiency. Hardware offloads for RDMA, VxLAN, GENEVE and NVGRE optimize performance while reducing the cost of network encapsulation for virtualized workloads and hybrid cloud deployments.

• Efficient Administration: Cavium technologies, combined with Mirantis® FUEL for OpenStack orchestration and QConvergeConsole® topology maps for OpenStack, allow the seamless integration and accelerated deployment of workloads in Telco and Cloud datacenters.

Available from Cavium, HPE and other leading OEMs, Cavium FastLinQ 45000 Series 25/100GbE adapters are fully integrated into DPDK and shipping in volume now.

For more information, visit www.qlogic.com and www.cavium.com to learn more today!

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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.

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

[1] Information based on IHS Market Technology Group, NFV Strategies Global Service Provider Survey August 2016. Information is not an endorsement of Cavium. Any reliance on these results is at the third party's own risk. Visit technology.ihs.com for more details.

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GIGABYTE® Selects Cavium QLogic® 10/25GbE FastLinQ™ Technology To Power Its Next Generation Servers

QLogic FastLinQ Ethernet Technology to be adopted across GIGABYTE's extensive server portfolio

SAN JOSE, Calif., Jan. 23, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- GIGABYTE Technology (TWSE: 2376), a leading vendor of high performance server hardware, today announced that it has selected Cavium's (NASDAQ: CAVM), QLogic FastLinQ 10GbE and 25GbE Ethernet adapters and controllers for adoption across a broad portfolio of servers and differing form factors. These controllers support a comprehensive set of virtualization, Universal RDMA and multi-tenant services, enabling GIGABYTE server solutions to deliver higher performance options for the most sophisticated data centers, telcos and cloud providers.

"GIGABYTE servers - across standard, Open Compute Platform (OCP) and rack scale form factors - deliver exceptional value, performance and scalability for multi-tenant cloud and virtualized enterprise datacenters," said Etay Lee, GM of GIGABYTE Technology's Server Division. "The addition of QLogic 10GbE and 25GbE FastLinQ Ethernet NICs in OCP and Standard form factors will enable delivery on all of the tenets of open standards, while enabling key virtualization technologies like SR-IOV and full offloads for overlay networks using VxLAN, NVGRE and GENEVE."

"QLogic 10GbE/25GbE Ethernet NICs, with Universal RDMA are designed to accelerate access to networking and storage while using a general purpose network," said Rajneesh Gaur. "Integration on GIGABYTE motherboards and servers will provide customers with an innovative solution delivering flexibility in choice of RDMA and cost savings for next generation Cloud, Web2.0 and Telco Data centers."

Purpose built for accelerating and simplifying datacenter networking, QLogic FastLinQ Ethernet technology in GIGABYTE servers delivers:

·         Broad Spectrum of Ethernet Connectivity Speeds – 10/25GbE to host the most demanding enterprise, telco and cloud applications and deliver scalability to drive business growth.

·         Universal RDMA – Industry's only network adapter that delivers customers technology choices and investment protection with concurrent support for RoCE, RoCEv2 and iWARP.

·         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.

·         Server Virtualization – Optimize infrastructure costs and increase virtual machine density by leveraging in-built technologies like SR-IOV and NIC Partitioning (NPAR) that deliver acceleration and QoS for workloads and infrastructure traffic.

·         Network Function Virtualization (NFV) – Leading small packet performance up to 100GbE Ethernet connectivity, and integration with DPDK and OpenStack, enables Telco's and NFV application vendors to seamlessly deploy, manage and accelerate the most demanding NFV workloads.

·         OpenStack Integration: Cavium QLogic technologies, such as the Plug-in for Mirantis® Fuel for automatic SR-IOV configuration across multiple OpenStack nodes, QConvergeConsole™ driven physical, and logical topology maps and functionality to deliver QoS for tenant workloads, are the key integration areas that enable hyperscale deployments with OpenStack.

QLogic 10/25GbE FastLinQ Ethernet NIC technology – in both Standard and OCP form factors – is planned to be available on GIGABYTE high performance server hardware starting Q1, 2017.

For more information, visit:  
www.qlogic.com
and
http://b2b.gigabyte.com/

About GIGABYTE Technology Co., Ltd.

GIGABYTE is a leading global IT brand, with employees and business channels in almost every country. Founded in 1986, GIGABYTE started as a research and development team and has since become an industry leader in the world's motherboard and graphics card markets. Drawing from its vast R&D and manufacturing capacities and know-how, GIGABYTE further expanded its product portfolio to include network communication devices, servers and storage, with a goal of serving each facet of the digital life in homes and offices. Everyday GIGABYTE aims to "Upgrade Your Life" with innovative technology, exceptional quality, and unmatched customer service. 

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. 

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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