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.

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 to Showcase Innovative Solutions for Private and Public Cloud Infrastructure and Scale Out Applications at OpenStack 2017

SAN JOSE, CA – May 8, 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 showcase innovative solutions for private and public cloud infrastructure and scale out applications at OpenStack 2017. The conference will take place at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston Massachusetts from May 8th – 11th.

The OpenStack Summit is a four-day event comprised of presentations, panels, workshops, and educational opportunities through OpenStack Academy. Topics span cloud strategy and business case development to operational best practices and technical deep dives. Cavium is an OpenStack community member and a corporate sponsor and is committed to the open source platform.

Cavium's ThunderX® ARMv- based workload-optimized processor integrates key capabilities that are critical for the most demanding public and private cloud workloads. The OpenStack cloud infrastructure enables end users to fully utilize ThunderX features for critical workloads such as cloud storage with CEPH, Apache Hadoop for Big Data Analytics, distributed data bases such as MySQL and Cassandra and secure web serving with NGINX. ThunderX is also optimized for networking specific workloads such as Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) and load-balancing for telco applications.

Cavium's LiquidIO® II Intelligent Server adapters fully support and seamlessly integrate OpenStack software value-added functionality for application acceleration, network configuration and provisioning, security, and isolation in multi-tenant compute clusters. LiquidIO Open Virtual Switch (OVS) offload enables various Network Function Virtualization (NFV) and security features as a workload-specific Virtual Network Function (VNF) or as a Service Function Chain (SFC) with seamless configuration and provisioning using OpenStack platform.

Cavium FastLinQ® 45000 Series adapters comprise the next-generation of Ethernet adapters with that can support 10/25/40/50/100GbE while delivering a broad set of protocols, features, speeds and capabilities, including Universal RDMA, and stateless offloads for server and network virtualization. FastLinQ Ethernet adapters integrated with common OpenStack deployment and orchestration frameworks like Mirantis FUEL which can simplify and accelerate OpenStack cloud deployments and operations.

During the OpenStack Summit Cavium, will demonstrate the following innovative solutions in booth#A23:

• ThunderX: 64–bit ARMv8 based SoC family of workload optimized processors:
• Canonical to demonstrate deployment of cloud applications on Cavium’s ThunderX reference platform using MAAS and JuJu.
• Learn more about the “Type2A”: Packet.net’s ThunderX ARMv8 Bare metal instance.
• LiquidIO: 10/25/40GbE Intelligent Server/network appliance adapters:
• Demonstrating OpenStack managed compute cluster with full OVS 2.6 offload supporting CONNTRACK, NAT and VXLAN with VM Migration.
• Demonstrating OpenStack Security Groups based traffic policing.
• FastLinQ – 10/25/40/50/100GbE Ethernet adapters that accelerate the deployment of OpenStack by delivering the ability to orchestrate and manage an OpenStack deployment with technologies like the Plug–in for Mirantis® Fuel for automatic SR–IOV configuration, QConvergeConsole® (QCC) for OpenStack physical and logical topology maps and ability to deliver Quality of Service (QoS) for network functions.     

To schedule a meeting with Cavium at this event, please contact your local sales account manager or Lilly Ly (lilly.ly@cavium.com). Please enter Meeting Request at OpenStack Summit 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.

Cavium Contact
Angel Atondo
Sr. Marketing Communications Manager
Tel: (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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