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

Cavium™ expands China Unicom partnership to include Edge Services

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

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Cavium FastLinQ® Ethernet Enables Universal RDMA for Dell EMC 14th Generation PowerEdge Servers

Concurrent 10/25GbE iWARP and RoCE deliver ultimate flexibility to accelerate I/O with CPU offload

SAN JOSE, CA – July 11, 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 new FastLinQ® QL41000 Series of 10/25GbE Ethernet NICs, which are supported on Dell EMC14th Generation PowerEdge servers. The FastLinQ QL41000 Series are the industry’s only NIC solution that gives customers the technology choice and investment protection with support for concurrent RoCE, RoCEv2 and iWARP.  The FastLinQ adapters coupled with new generation PowerEdge servers enable administrators to optimize their infrastructure costs and increase virtual machine density by leveraging built-in technologies like SR-IOV and Network Partitioning (NPAR) that deliver acceleration and quality of service (QoS) for workloads and infrastructure traffic.  Additionally, the FastLinQ adapters provide full network function virtualization (NFV) with excellent small packet performance and integration with DPDK and OpenStack, enabling telcos and NFV application customers to seamlessly deploy, manage and accelerate the most demanding NFV workloads.

“Enterprise and cloud data centers have differing requirements driven by infrastructure and applications for latency and congestion management, so flexibility of the networking solution is key, said Bob Wheeler, principal analyst at The Linley Group. Cavium FastLinQ 41000 Series family with Universal RDMA effectively addresses these challenges while delivering a flexible and future proof networking solution.

“Cavium FastLinQ 10GbE/25GbE Ethernet NICs, with Universal RDMA are designed to accelerate access to networking and storage while offloading server CPU,” said Rajneesh Gaur, vice president and general manager, Ethernet Adapter Group, at Cavium. “The introduction of Universal RDMA in Dell’s flagship 14G server is a major milestone and 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.”

“Dell EMC 14th generation PowerEdge Servers are delivering a scalable, automated and secure architecture for any workload, from traditional to cloud-native applications and converged platforms,”  said Brian Payne, vice president product management and marketing, server solutions division, Dell EMC. “With the unique Universal RDMA capabilities in the FastLinQ QL41000 Series Ethernet NICs in the new PowerEdge servers, customers can transform their infrastructure for modern workloads and cloud initiatives by increasing performance while optimizing infrastructure costs.”

Purpose built to accelerate and simplify data center networking, Cavium FastLinQ Ethernet technology in Dell PowerEdge servers delivers:

• Universal RDMA – Industry’s only network adapter that offers customers a choice of RDMA technology 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 – Optimizes infrastructure costs and increase virtual machine density by leveraging built-in technologies like SR-IOV and NIC Partitioning (NPAR) that deliver acceleration and QoS for workloads and infrastructure traffic.

• Network Function Virtualization (NFV) – Enables telco and NFV application vendors to seamlessly deploy, manage and accelerate the most demanding NFV workloads by delivering leading small packet performance and integration with DPDK and OpenStack.

• Storage Acceleration: Full protocol offload for iSCSI and FCoE 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 FastLinQ 41000 Series 10/25Gbps Ethernet adapters are now available from Dell EMC.

For more information, visit www.qlogic.com 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.

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 Named Winner of Omega Award for Trailblazing Innovation by ACG Research for 2016

Omega Award recognizes excellence in product innovation and Cavium's leadership in open network technologies and its initiatives in OCP, CORD and 5G Cloud RAN

SAN JOSE, CA – May 3, 2017 – Cavium, Inc. (NASDAQ: CAVM) a leading provider of semiconductor products that enable secure and intelligent processing for enterprise, datacenter, cloud, wired and wireless networking, received the Omega Trailblazing Innovation Award from ACG Research to recognize Cavium for addressing the issues of conventional networking platforms and opening up new opportunities for customers with its XPliant® packet switching technology, ThunderX® ARM SoCs, and the OCTEON® processor designs for HetNet RANs.

The Omega Award recognizes excellence in product innovation and differentiated marketing in HotSeat, Whiteboard and Spotlight Innovation videos.

ACG Research recognized Cavium for innovation in general-purpose computing platforms in its ThunderX ARM processing family, leading edge developments in system on a chip (SoC) designs for mobile networking in its OCTEON and OCTEON Fusion-M® products as well as its uniquely programmable XPliant NFV/SDN Ethernet switch.

"We thank ACG Research for the recognition of our efforts on multiple fronts, including switching and baseband processing, to develop the open networking technologies necessary for the deployment of large-scale telco clouds and 5G wireless networks," said Raj Singh, VP & GM, Networking Communication Group, Cavium, Inc.  "The new open core networks will enable advanced concepts, such as flexible end-to-end network slicing to address individual service requirements, and will require advanced network processing capabilities, such as those embodied in our XPliant, ThunderX, OCTEON and OCTEON Fusion-M processor families." 

“In each area of innovation Cavium is pushing the industry forward to ‘more for less’ and to do it with great flexibility. By doing this it is helping the industry move forward more rapidly toward goals its customers and stakeholders clearly value. In a changing marketplace, Cavium has demonstrated an ability to develop new solutions and technologies to address current as well as future needs and capacity,” said Paul Parker-Johnson, Principal Analyst at ACG Research. “The breadth of exciting products emanating from Cavium is a testament to their vision of NFV, the importance of the cloud, and the future of networking in many domains.”

About Cavium

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

Media Contact:

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

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

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

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

Cavium will showcase the following demonstrations in booth #10:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Cavium Showcases Innovative NFV/SDN Technology Solutions at NFV World Congress 2016

SAN JOSE, CA, April 19, 2016 – Cavium, Inc., (NASDAQ: CAVM), a leading provider of semiconductor products that enable intelligent processing for cloud, data center, telco infrastructure, enterprise, wired and wireless networking, is demonstrating the company’s innovative solutions for NFV, SDN, Security, 5G Networks, and Telco Cloud at this week’s NFV World Congress 2016. The show expo dates are from April 20th – 22nd at the DoubleTree Hilton Hotel in San Jose, California.

NFV World Congress and its sister SDN & OpenFlow World Congress in Europe are the principal global industry forums for NFV+SDN. Every six months, the industry meets face-to-face to examine and debate progress, learn and exchange knowledge, and to showcase how the combination of NFV, SDN, MANO and Open Source will provide the next generation of telecom networking.

Cavium remains at the forefront of NFV and SDN technology with advanced and highly-scalable solutions in ThunderX® workload optimized standard ARM servers, XPliant® programmable SDN fabric, OCTEON Fusion-M™, LiquidSecurity™ and LiquidIO® intelligent NICs to address the complex needs of the industry. These solutions leverage Cavium’s fully-virtualized integrated multicore processors and baseband SoC’s, SDN switching, and intelligent adapters supported by a wide range of open source communities, standard operating systems, virtualization software, and software applications.

Cavium will showcase the following NFV/SDN technology solutions in the Bayshore ballroom at booth 8:

• Cloud / Centralized RAN with SDN - Fully Programmable, dis-aggregated, low latency SDN–based RAN solution for LTE and 5G.
• OPNFV Compliant NFV Platform - ThunderX 48–core, 64–bit ARM processor families for COTS servers and embedded applications. Supported by rich eco–systems of OS distros, OEM/ODM servers including OCP and telco OCP servers, dataplane acceleration and Ceph storage.
• Telco Cloud and NFV acceleration - LiquidIO intelligent server NIC cards offloading IPsec, OVS, Service Function Chaining, DPI, and NVMe–over–fabric.
• Security as a Service for Telco Cloud - LiquidSecurity appliance for key management in the cloud.
• Fully Programmable Top-of-Rack and Spine SDN Switch - Extensible, feature rich, cloud scale datacenter XPliant switches providing bandwidth from 1Tbps to 3.2Tbps.

To schedule a meeting with Cavium, please contact your local sales account manager or Lilly Ly (lly@cavium.com). Please enter Meeting Request at NFV 2016 in the subject line.

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About Cavium, Inc.

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

Cavium Contact:
Angel Atondo 
Sr. Marketing Communications Manager,
Cavium, 2315 N. First Street,
San Jose CA 95131, 
Telephone: +1 408-943-7417

Email: angel.atondo@cavium.com

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Cisco Cloud Services Platform 2100 and Cavium LiquidSecurity™ enable secure Crypto as a Service solution for NFV, Cloud and IaaS

Cisco and Cavium, Inc., a leading provider of semiconductor products that enable secure and intelligent processing for enterprise, data center, cloud, wired and wireless networking, today are announcing that Cisco is integrating Cavium’s LiquidSecurity™ family into the Cisco Cloud Services Platform(CSP) 2100. The CSP 2100 is a Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) turn-key & open x86 Linux Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) software and hardware platform to run both Cisco and 3rd party virtual network services. The CSP 2100 bridges network, server, and security teams by offering several ways to manage and operate the platform. You can manage the platform via a GUI, CLI, REST API, and/or NetConf leveraging Cisco’s Network Services Orchestrator (NSO).

For virtual network services running on the CSP 2100 that require crypto processing and centralized key management, this joint solution enables security features and performance similar to dedicated hardware appliances while providing the benefits of reduced costs and complexity, flexibility, and speed of delivery. With availability in both FIPS and non-FIPS modes, the solution is targeted at both Enterprise and Service Provider markets for a variety of applications in the Cloud, Data Center, Point-of-Presence (POP), Central Office (CO), COLOs, Carrier Neutral Facilities (CNF), WAN Aggregation, DMZ, Core Network, and Server Farms. Example applications include Load Balancers, WAN Accelerators, Web Application Firewalls (WAFs), Routers, Security Gateways and IDS/IPS.

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Cavium's XPliant® Switches Empower Open Networking at ONS 2016

Demonstrations of XPliant based platforms running open source software

SAN JOSE, Calif., March 15, 2016 - Cavium, Inc., (NASDAQ: CAVM), a leading provider of semiconductor products that enable intelligent processing for enterprise, data center, cloud, wired and wireless networking, will demonstrate its XPliant switches for Software-Defined Networking (SDN) at Open Networking Summit (ONS) 2016.

ONS is the forum for service providers, enterprises, disruptive and incumbent vendors, open source projects, leading researchers and investors to discuss SDN and NFV developments and to shape the future of the networking industry. ONS has united the SDN ecosystem since its inception - bringing service providers, data center operators, engineers and the groundbreaking vendors that serve them together with the newest advancements in SDN and NFV.

Cavium's XPliant Ethernet switch family targets applications in cloud / enterprise data centers and service provider infrastructure, for both top-of-rack and backbone applications. XPliant Packet Architecture (XPA) enables very high level of table flexibility and extensible header support without any compromise in throughput. XPliant family of Ethernet switches offers centralized shared packet buffer architecture to absorb the large bursts. The combination of leading performance and remarkable flexibility is attractive across all the segments. These highly configurable Ethernet switches which provides bandwidth from 1Tbps to 3.2Tbps in monolithic silicon supports 1G, 10G, 25G, 40G, 50G and 100G interfaces. This family of switches also provides connectivity solutions for embedded applications.

Cavium will be showcasing the various open source software running on the XPliant based platforms at ONS 2016.

OpenSwitch is an open source, community-led Linux-based network operating system, launched by Hewlett Packard Enterprise and other industry leaders in October 2015, optimized for the scale and architecture requirements of modern next-generation data center networks.

OpenXPS is Open APIs for the XPliant Programmable Switch open source software which map the XPliant Software Development Kit (XDK) rich feature-set to an open software interface enabling integration of custom applications on the extensible XPliant switch hardware platforms. 

Facebook Open Switching System ("FBOSS") is open source software for Facebook data center that consists a daemon that programs and controls the ASIC.

Switch Abstraction Interface (SAI) 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.

Cavium will show the following product demonstrations at booth 24 at ONS 2016:

• XPliant: Extensible, feature rich, cloud scale datacenter switches providing bandwidth from 1Tbps to 3.2Tbps

• Demonstration of FBOSS and OpenSwitch NOS software running on Cavium's XPliant based Edgecore AS7500-32X platform.
• Demonstration of OpenSwitch NOS software running on Cavium's XPliant based Edgecore AS7500-32X platform through OepnXPS API at OpenSwitch booth.
• Demonstration of Microsoft Azure's network software running on Cavium's XPliant based Edgecore AS7500-32X platform via Switch Abstraction Interface (SAI) adopter at Microsoft's booth.
• Demonstration of Pica8's PicOS software running on Cavium's XPliant based Edgecore AS7500-32X platform.
• Demonstration of XPliant–based 32x100G platforms from various ODM partners.

To schedule a meeting with Cavium, please contact your local sales account manager or Lilly Ly (lly@cavium.com). Please enter Meeting Request at ONS 2016.

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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Cavium Showcases Key Technology Components for Cloud Datacenters and NFV at Open Networking Summit 2016

DemonstratesThunderX®,OCTEON Fusion-M®, Liquid IO® and XPliant® Switch

SAN JOSE, Calif., March 15, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Cavium, Inc., (NASDAQ: CAVM), a leading provider of semiconductor products that enable intelligent processing for enterprise, data center, cloud, wired and wireless networking, will demonstrate several key enabling Cloud Datacenter and NFV technologies including XPliant switches, Workload Optimized® ThunderX Cloud RAN ARM v8 COTS server, Liquid IO® NFV Offload NIC cards and OCTEON Fusion-M® Smart Radio Head at Open Networking Summit (ONS) 2016.

The industry trend towards Network Virtualization and away from fixed function switching and compute functions is accelerating and enabling a new class of applications and services. Key components for the success of Cloud Datacenters and NFV include programmable SDN switches, seamless virtualization and disaggregation of certain functions to ensure scalability and flexibility.

Cavium will showcase multiple components and use cases at ONS.

CAVIUM ONS Booth (#24):	Xplaint® Switch running Open Source Software
	Cavium's XPliant Ethernet switch family is highly programmable using a XPliant Packet Architecture (XPA) enables very high level of table flexibility and extensible header support without any compromise in throughput and ideally for NFV and SDN.
	Liquid IO® for NFV Offload and Virtualization
	Liquid IO intelligent server NIC cards offloading multiple functions including IPSec, OVS, Service Function Chaining and DPI.
ON.Lab ONS Booth (#25o):	In conjunction with ON.Lab will demonstrate disaggregated vBBU and C-RAN Live Demo powered by ThunderX and OCTEON Fusion-M
	3GPP compliant, disaggregated, and virtualized mobile infrastructure using ThunderX Workload Optimized® servers and OCTEON Fusion-M Baseband Processor. Integrated with ONOS M-CORD will demonstrate the benefits of SDN and NFV in mobile infrastructure.

To schedule a meeting with Cavium, please contact your local sales account manager or Lilly Ly (lly@cavium.com). Please enter Meeting Request at ONS 2016.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

About Cavium, Inc.

Cavium is a leading provider of highly integrated semiconductor products that enable intelligent processing in enterprise, data center, cloud and wired and wireless service provider applications. Cavium offers a broad portfolio of integrated, software-compatible processors ranging in performance from 100Mbps to 100Gbps that enable secure, intelligent functionality in enterprise, data-center, broadband/consumer and access and service provider equipment. Cavium’s processors are supported by ecosystem partners that provide operating systems, tool support, reference designs and other services. Cavium’s principal office is in San Jose, CA with design team locations in California, Massachusetts, India and China. For more information, please visit: http://www.cavium.com.

Cavium Contact:

Angel Atondo 

Sr. Marketing Communications Manager,

Cavium, 2315 N. First Street,

San Jose CA 95131, 

Telephone: +1 408-943-7417

Email: angel.atondo@cavium.com

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