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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Email: angel.atondo@cavium.com 

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Cavium Partners with IBM for Next Generation Platforms by Joining OpenCAPI

Cavium will leverage OpenCAPI to accelerate data center workloads

SAN JOSE, CA – December 5, 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 is partnering with IBM for next generation platforms by joining OpenCAPI, an initiative founded by IBM, Google, AMD and others.  OpenCAPI provides high-bandwidth, low latency interface optimized to connect accelerators, IO devices and memory to CPUs. With this announcement Cavium plans to bring its leadership in server IO and security offloads to next generation platforms that support the OpenCAPI interface.

Traditional system architectures are becoming a bottleneck for new classes of data-centric applications that require faster access to peripheral resources like memory, I/O and accelerators. For the efficient deployment and success of such applications, it is imperative to put the compute power closer to the data. OpenCAPI, a mature and complete specification enables such a server design, that can increase datacenter server performance by several times, enabling corporate and cloud data centers to speed up big data, machine learning, analytics, and other emerging workloads. Capable of 25Gbits per second data rate, OpenCAPI delivers the best in class performance, enabling the maximum utilization of high speed I/O devices like Cavium Fibre Channel adapters, low latency Ethernet NICs, programmable SmartNIC and security solutions.

Cavium delivers the industry's most comprehensive family of I/O adapters and network acclerators which have the potential to be seamlessly inegrated into OpenCAPI based systems. Cavium's portfolio includes FastLinQ^®Ethernet Adapters, Converged Networking Adapters, LiquidIO^® SmartNICs, Fibre Channel Adapters and NITROX^® Security Accelerators that cover the entire spectrum for data-centric application connectivity, offload and accleration requirements.

"We welcome Cavium to the OpenCAPI consortium to fuel innovation for today's data-intensive cognitive workloads," said Bob Picciano, Senior Vice President, IBM Cognitive Systems. “Together, we will tap into Cavium's next-generation technology, including networking and accelerators, and work in tandem with other partners' systems technology to unleash high-performance capabilities for our clients' data center workloads."

“We are excited to be a part of the OpenCAPI consortium. As our partnership with IBM continues to grow, we see more synergies in high speed communication and Artificial Intelligence applications.” said Syed Ali, founder and CEO of Cavium.  “We look forward to working with IBM to enable exponential performance gains for these applications.”

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

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Cavium FastLinQ® Delivers Advanced Networking I/O for HPE Gen 10 Servers

New 10GbE and 25GbE NICs deliver a secure, high performance solution with Universal RDMA

SAN JOSE, CA – November 28, 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 that its FastLinQ QL41000 Series of 10/25GbE Ethernet NICs are now available from Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) for HPE ProLiant and HPE Apollo Gen10 servers. Cavium FastLinQ Ethernet technology with Universal RDMA is purpose-built to accelerate access to networking and flash storage while offloading server CPU. The introduction of FastLinQ 10/25GbE NICs into HPE’s broad portfolio of Gen10 servers, including select HPE ProLiant DL, ML and HPE Apollo servers, provides customers with an innovative solution delivering flexibility in choice of RDMA and cost savings for next generation Private, Hybrid and Telco Cloud data centers. This, along with the recent announcement of Cavium FastLinQ 25/50GbE NICs for HPE Synergy, completes the availability of Cavium NICs across the HPE Gen10 server portfolio.

The FastLinQ technology in the new HPE Ethernet 10GbE 52x Series and HPE Ethernet 10/25GbE 62x Series adapters coupled with new generation of HPE servers empower data center administrators to optimize their server infrastructure costs, increase application performance and deliver a future-proof design. Leveraging built-in technologies like concurrent support for RoCE, RoCEv2 and iWARP (Universal RDMA) and SR-IOV,  tenant workloads and infrastructure traffic can scale to deliver business results.  With full offloads for tunneling protocols including VxLAN, GENEVE and NVGRE, the new HPE adapters deliver near line-rate performance for Software Defined Networking (SDN) workloads enabling Telcos and MSPs to seamlessly deploy, manage and scale the most demanding tenant workloads. Extending Cavium’s legacy and expertise in security, FastLinQ NICs deliver robust security features like Secure Firmware Updates and UEFI Secure Boot, which enables HPE Secure Compute Lifecycle on Gen10 servers to offer best-in-class innovations in protection, malware detection, and recovery.

“The advent of NVMe and persistent memory, coupled with the introduction of the latest Intel Xeon Scalable processor family, have enabled higher workload and virtual machine density for enterprise and hybrid cloud architectures, putting even more importance on the flexibility and performance of the networking solution,” said Seamus Crehan, President of Crehan Research. “Adapters based on Cavium’s FastLinQ 41000 Series technology deliver this flexibility and performance with Universal RDMA offloads which should meet the networking demands of next-gen applications while delivering a secure and future-proof solution.”

“The FastLinQ 41000 family delivers customers technology choice and investment protection by supporting concurrent RoCE, RoCEv2 and iWARP – Universal RDMA,” said Rajneesh Gaur, Vice President and General Manager of Ethernet Adapter Group, Cavium. “The introduction of this new class of I/O connectivity for a broad range of HPE Gen 10 compute platforms provides significant VM density, by allowing customers to remove all I/O bottnecks and utilize the full potential of the HPE Gen 10 servers.”

“Intelligent networking is a critical component for an agile application and delivering a secure environment for a hybrid infrastructure,” said Tom Lattin, VP and GM of HPE Mass Market Platforms, Options, & Software.  “One of our key goals in collaborating with Cavium on their FastLinQ 10/25GbE technology was to enhance the performance and security of HPE ProLiant and HPE Apollo Gen10 servers.”

Purpose-built for accelerating and simplifying datacenter networking, Cavium FastLinQ Ethernet technology in HPE ProLiant and HPE Apollo servers deliver:

• 10GBASE-T: Utilize low cost Cat6a cables and RJ-45 connections for 10GbE, eliminating the need for potentially expensive 10GbE SFP+ optics. This reduces deployment costs by up to 46%(1) and is backward compatible with 1GbE infrastructure.
• Universal RDMA – Industry’s only network adapter that offers customers a flexibility of RDMA technology, customer can choose RoCE/RoCEv2 for small to medium scale deployments on a lossless ethernet network and iWARP for large cloud scale architectures built on standard Ethernet fabrics.
• Cavium SmartAN™ Technology - Supports auto configuration of the adapter when connecting between 10GbE and 25GbE networks, eliminating server administrator intervention for manually configuring port speeds and FECs. Cavium FastLinQ SmartANtechnology along with extensive interop testing virtually eliminate interoperability challenges in physical layer networks.
• Network and Server 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. Optimize infrastructure costs and increase virtual machine density by leveraging technologies like SR-IOV that deliver acceleration and QoS for enterprise workloads.
• Flexible Archtecture: A flexible microcoded architecture delivers faster time to market and adaption to new and emerging technologies, extending the return of investment in FastLinQ NIC technology

The new HPE adapters from Cavium are also capable of supporting additional advanced features that will be enabled by HPE with firmware upgrades in early CY2018. These include:

• NIC Partioning – Optimize infrastructure and streamline traffic management using NIC Partitioning (NPAR) that delivers up to 16 physical functions per adapter with QoS.
• Network Function Virtualization (NFV) – Enables Telcos and NFV application vendors to seamlessly deploy, manage and accelerate the most demanding NFV workloads by delivering up to 36 Million small packet performance, MPLSoUDP offload and integration with OpenStack.
• Storage Acceleration: Full protocol offload for iSCSI, FCoE and NVMe over Fabrics delivers up to 3M IOPS while consuming the fewest server CPU cycles, leaving headroom for virtual applications and enabling higher ROI on server investments.

Availability
The new 10/25Gbps Ethernet adapters based on Cavium FastLinQ 41000 Series technology are now available from HPE. These include

• HPE Ethernet 10/25Gb 2-port 621SFP28 Adapter
• HPE Ethernet 10/25Gb 2-port 622FLR-SFP28 CNA
• HPE Ethernet 10Gb 2-port 521T Adapter

For more information, visit www.qlogic.com/info/hpe and www.cavium.com

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

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Cavium Demonstrates NVMe Scale-out Technologies at VMworld US 2017

Live Demonstration of Over 2 Million FC-NVMe IOPS with QLogic® Gen 6 Fibre Channel and Concurrent RoCE and iWARP NVMe over Fabrics with FastLinQ®

SAN JOSE, CA – August 28, 2017 – Cavium™, Inc. (CAVM), a leading provider of semiconductor products that enable secure and intelligent processing for enterprise, data center, cloud, wired and wireless networking, will showcase a broad range of NVMe over Fabric solutions including FC-NVMe on Gen 6 Fibre Channel and NVMe over Fabrics concurrently over RoCE and iWARP on Cavium FastlinQ 45000/41000 Series Ethernet NICs at VMworld US 2017 in Cavium booth 1230. The conference takes place August 27-31, 2017 at the Mandalay Bay Hotel & Convention Center in Las Vegas, NV.

The NVMe over Fabrics (NVMe-oF™) specification is an emerging technology that gives data center networks unprecedented access to NVMe SSD storage. It delivers efficient scaling of NVMe-based SSDs over data center fabrics including Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) networks (iWARP and RoCE), as well as Fibre Channel.  This enables higher virtual machine density by delivering faster, more scalable connections between servers and storage, as well as between storage controllers and NVMe enclosures.

Cavium is a leader in the transition to NVMe over Fabrics by enabling a broad range of high-performance solutions that seamlessly transition customer infrastructure and applications to next-generation NVMe flash-based platforms, and is the only solution supplier offering both NVMe-oF over Universal RDMA and Fibre Channel.¹

VMworld, hosted by VMware, is the number one event for enabling the digital enterprise. Cavium’s participation in VMworld US 2017 spans multiple demonstrations and product showcases, which include:

• Demo: Breakthrough performance from an end-to-end FC-NVMe solution with QLogic Gen 6 Fibre Channel delivering more than 2 million NVMe IOPS on the innovative SPDK-based software-defined storage framework @ Cavium Booth #1230 
• Demo: Industry's only solution that delivers technology choice and investment protection to customers with concurrent RoCE and iWARP transports for NVMe over Fabrics @ Cavium Booth #1230
• Product Showcase: Cavium FastLinQ 10/25/50/100GbE NICs and CNAs, QLogic Enhanced Gen 5 and Gen 6 Fibre Channel adapters, LiquidIO® 10/25Gbps Smart NICs and NITROX® XL Adapters

Cavium QLogic NVMe over Fibre Channel (FC-NVMe) Solution
Next-generation, data-intensive workloads utilize low latency NVMe flash-based storage to meet ever increasing user demand. By combining the lossless, highly deterministic nature of Fibre Channel with NVMe, FC-NVMe delivers the performance, application response time, and scalability needed for next-generation data centers, while leveraging existing Fibre Channel infrastructure. Currently shipping QLogic 2690 Series of Enhanced Gen 5 and 2700 Series of Gen 6 Fibre Channel adapters are FC-NVMe ready and are being evaluated in FC-NVMe fabrics by multiple customers and partners across the industry.

Cavium FastLinQ NVMe over Ethernet Universal RDMA (NVMe-oF) Solution
Driven by the performance demands of NVMe, high-performance, low-latency networking is a fundamental requirement for a fabric to scale out. Ethernet-based RDMA fabrics with their exceptional low latency and offload capabilities will become a popular choice for NVMe over Fabrics.  Cavium FastLinQ 45000/41000 Series Ethernet NICs support Universal RDMA (RoCE, RoCEv2 and iWARP concurrently) and deliver the ultimate choice to customers for scaling out NVMe over a general-purpose Ethernet fabric.

Cavium’s LiquidIO Smart NICs
LiquidIO 10/25/40GbE Smart NICs/network appliance adapters accelerate performance for SDN and NFV application by offloading Open vSwitch with various server virtualization, security, and network virtualization processing including overlay networks, IPsec, distributed firewall, DPI for application recognition and dynamic service chaining with cloud configuration.

Cavium’s NITROX Adapters
NITROX XL Adapters offer solutions from a few hundred Mbps to 100Gbps of encryption bandwidth and from a few thousand to 130K 2048b RSA operations per second. These adapters also offer up to 100Gbps of compression support. Cavium’s NITROX FIPS Adapters offer from a few thousand to over a million symmetric, as well as from a few hundred to 35K asymmetric operations per second. These adapters are the industry’s only adapters that provide 32 runtime elastic FIPS/HSM partitions. Both adapters are heavily used for OEM, as well as NFV solutions. In addition, cloud data centers heavily utilize the NITROX FIPS adapters to meet compliance requirements.

Cavium FastLinQ 40000 Series 10/25/40/50/100GbE, QLogic 2690 Series Enhanced Gen 5 16GFC and 2700 Series Gen 6 32GFC adapters are available from Cavium and multiple leading OEMs and ODMs. Cavium LiquidIO 10/25/40Gbps Smart NICs and NITROX adapters are available from Cavium. For more information, visit www.cavium.com.

To schedule a meeting with Cavium at VMworld, please contact your local sales account manager or Lilly Ly (lly@cavium.com). Please enter VMworld 2017 in the subject line.

About Cavium
Cavium, Inc. (NASDAQ: CAVM), offers a broad portfolio of infrastructure solutions for compute, security, storage, switching, connectivity and baseband processing. Cavium’s highly integrated multi-core SoC products deliver software compatible solutions across low to high performance points enabling secure and intelligent functionality in Enterprise, 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
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.

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Cavium FastLinQ® Ethernet Adopted by Major ODMs for Next-Generation Cloud and Telco Datacenters

Datacenter Servers from ASUS, GIGABYTE, Inventec, MiTAC, Wistron now leverage FastLinQ 10/25/40/50/100Gb Ethernet NICs

COMPUTEX, TAIPEI, Taiwan and SAN JOSE, Calif., – May 29, 2017 –Cavium, Inc. (NASDAQ: CAVM), a leading provider of semiconductor products that enable secure and intelligent processing for enterprise, datacenter, cloud, wired and wireless networking, today announced adoption of its flagship FastLinQ family of 10/25/50/100Gbps Ethernet NICs at several Tier-1 OEMs and ODMs that deliver hyperscale cloud platforms to Tier-1 customers worldwide. This product family delivers a range of solutions from entry level LOM to high end converged NIC and is offered in a variety of form factors. The FastLinQ QL45000 adapters with Universal RDMA are the industry’s only NIC family that delivers the technology choice and investment protection with support for concurrent RoCE, RoCEv2 and iWARP. With several unique designs at more than a dozen top Tier-1 OEMs and ODMs, FastLinQ Ethernet technology from Cavium is purpose-built to deliver acceleration and offload for business-critical applications, artificial intelligence, Big Data, CDN, Machine Learning and hyperscale storage workloads in emerging cloud and telco datacenters.

“Cavium is seeing significantly increased adoption at major OEMs and ODMs which is a testament to the performance, features and competitiveness of our FastLinQ family of NICs,” said Christopher Moezzi, Vice President of Marketing, Ethernet Adapter Group, Cavium. “Cavium has the widest and most compelling Ethernet NIC solutions from 10Gbps to 100Gbps in a wide range of form factors. We provide customers with innovative, high performance solutions, delivering flexibility in choice of RDMA and cost savings for next-generation Cloud, Web2.0, Storage and Telco datacenters.”

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

• Broad Spectrum of Ethernet Connectivity Speeds – 10/25/40/50/100GbE to host the most demanding enterprise, telco and cloud applications and deliver scalability to drive business growth.
• Enterprise Class Reliability and Flexibility – With millions of Ethernet ports shipped, and a flexible architecture that delivers faster time to market and adaption to new and emerging technologies, FastLinQ Ethernet NICs are amongst the top choices for enterprise datacenters.
• 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.
• Storage Acceleration - Full protocol concurrent offload for NVMe-oF™, iSER, iSCSI and FCoE delivers up to 5M IOPS while consuming the fewest 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, 100Gbps Ethernet connectivity, and integration with DPDK and OpenStack, enables Telcos and NFV application vendors to seamlessly deploy, manage and accelerate the most demanding NFV workloads.

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.

Visit the Cavium suite #2412 at the Grand Hyatt hotel during COMPUTEX 2017, Taipei, Taiwan from May 30^th– June 3^rd to learn more!

Supporting Quotes
“NVMe Over Fabrics will radically change Storage and Networking paradigms in next generation datacenter and cloud architectures,” said Robert Chin, General Manager of ASUS Server Business Unit. “Close collaboration with Cavium on Ethernet RDMA Fabrics for scaling out NVMe enables us to expand our addressable market, with increased performance and offloads delivered by FastLinQ 25GbE NICs, particularly for hyperscale cloud customers.”

“GIGABYTE servers address the broad spectrum of needs of hyperscale datacenters across standard, Open Compute Platform (OCP) and rack scale form factors while delivering exceptional value, performance and scalability,” said Etay Lee, GM of GIGABYTE Technology’s Server Division. “The addition of Cavium FastLinQ 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.”

“Cavium FastLinQ Network Virtualization optimized 25GbE Ethernet adapters in OCP form factor enable open platforms, unleash innovation, and unlock performance for Telcos and Private, Hybrid and Public Clouds," said Joseph Li, Director of Inventec Data Center Business. "Offering a comprehensive set of server and network virtualization features, this 10/25GbE OCP adapter enables open platforms to achieve higher performance, flexibility and agility, while leveraging open standards.”

“One of our key goals in selecting Cavium FastLinQ 10/25GbE technology as a leading Ethernet adapter is to enable high performance networking for our customers, irrespective of the server form factor that they have chosen,” said Simon Hwang, VP of MiTAC Computing Technology. “Cavium FastLinQ Ethernet adapters available in standard, mezzanine, LOM and OCP form factors deliver offloads for overlay networking to ensure that organizations can realize predictable performance and offload server CPU across a variety of demanding virtual applications and workloads.”

“We are pleased to announce our collaboration with Cavium,” said Peter Tung, Chief Operation Officer of Enterprise Business Group, Wistron. “With years of experience in server development and networking infrastructure, workload acceleration technology built into FastLinQ 25/100GbE technology enables our customers to maximize datacenter performance.”

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

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

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