Cavium and Elenion Technologies Collaborate to Offer Silicon Photonics Enabled End-to-End Server-to-Switch Solutions

Enabling Disruptive Data Center Architecture Transformation Through Innovative On-Board Optical Engines 

LOS ANGELES, March 20, 2017 – Cavium, Inc. (NASDAQ: CAVM), a leading provider of semiconductor products that enable secure and intelligent packet processing, and Elenion Technologies (“Elenion”), an innovator in silicon photonics, today announced an end-to-end reference architecture for Next Generation Enterprise and Cloud Data Centers incorporating Cavium’s QLogic Network Interface Cards (NICs) and XPliant®-based switches, and Elenion’s Silicon Photonics on-board optics. This direct fiber-to-the-server and parallel multi-channel on-board solution for switches enables increased bandwidth to the server, aggregation to 400G and beyond, lower power consumption, and a path to the industry target of < $1/Gb.

Cavium and Elenion will be showcasing their reference design for fiber-to-the-server solutions during OFC 2017 in Los Angeles (March 20-23). Cavium is contributing two important elements of this architecture. The first is Cavium’s QLogic high performance multi-protocol Ethernet adapters supporting 10Gb/25Gb/40Gb/100Gb speeds and ideally suited for enterprise and cloud data centers. And the second is Cavium’s XPliant Ethernet switch family, first to deliver a high throughput programmable data center switching solution that is shipping today in production. Platforms based on the XPliant Ethernet switch family leverage its programmatic control of table resources and pipeline logic to meet the specific needs of the network architecture and while providing exceptional packet visibility and telemetry. The demonstration leverages Elenion’s next-generation photonics platform and packaging technology, and showcases advanced on-board transceivers with light sources integrated onto the silicon photonics. This innovative integration enables truly scalable, cost disruptive on-board solutions for NIC and switch applications within the data center (DC).

“Elenion on-board optic modules are a key component in the end-to-end flexible solutions of Cavium NIC and switching systems, enabling high-speed links over optical fiber in a cost-effective manner” – Eric Hayes, Vice President / General Manager, Switch Platform Group.

“Through the use of on-board optics (OBO), more efficient data center architectures can be realized, resulting in significant savings.  We’re excited with the progress made by Elenion and Cavium.” said Jeff Cox, Principal Director of Network Engineering at Microsoft.

As traffic volumes within data center networks continue to scale dramatically, silicon photonics plays a key role in enabling the way data center networks are re-architected, including a move away from pluggable optics to on-board optics. On-board optics offer the benefit of improved performance and network economics.

Architecture Demonstrated during OFC 2017

Elenion will be showcasing its next-generation silicon photonics technologies and solutions in conjunction with OFC 2017 in Los Angeles, CA on March 20-23. To schedule a meeting, please contact David Lam (david.lam@elenion.com).

About Elenion Technologies

Elenion Technologies, LLC (“Elenion”) is focused on driving innovation in silicon photonic technologies.  Built around world-class multi-disciplinary experts in silicon photonics, lasers, electronics and advanced packaging, Elenion is developing next-generation photonic integrated circuit technologies and solutions for a broad range of datacom and telecom applications.  Elenion is headquartered in New York, New York, with offices in San Jose, California and Munich, Germany.  For more information, please visit www.elenion.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 - Elenion

David Lam

(732) 781-8151

david.lam@elenion.com

Media Contact - Cavium

Angel Atondo
Sr. Marketing Communications Manager
(408) 943-7417
angel.atondo@cavium.com 

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Cavium Collaborates with Microsoft to Showcase SONiC Compatibility at OCP US Summit 2017

Cavium seamlessly connects SONiC software on XPliant® Ethernet switches

SAN JOSE, CA – Mar. 8, 2017 – Cavium, Inc. (NASDAQ: CAVM) a leading provider of semiconductor products that enable secure and intelligent processing for enterprise, data center, cloud, wired and wireless networking, today announced support for Software for Open Networking in the Cloud (SONiC) on Cavium’s XPliant® Ethernet switches.

SONiC is an open source project contributed by Microsoft which is comprised of a collection of networking software components required to build network devices like switches.

During the OCP US Summit being held in Santa Clara, Microsoft and Cavium will collaborate to showcase SONiC running on OCP AS7512-32X open network 100GE data center platform by Edgecore Networks, which features the XPliant programmable Ethernet switch device.

“SONiC is about cloud speed and scale,” said Eric Hayes, VP/GM, Switch Platform Group at Cavium. “By supporting SONiC we are enabling developers to unleash innovation with cloud-scale agility, greatly improving data center network operational efficiency, and significantly increasing the ROI of the datacenter operator's switching infrastructure investment.”

Cavium's XPliant Ethernet switch family is the first to deliver a high throughput programmable datacenter switching solution that is shipping today in production. Platforms based on the XPliant Ethernet switch family leverage its programmatic control of table resources and pipeline logic to meet the specific needs of the network architecture and while providing an advanced packet visibility and telemetry. In addition to programmability, the XPliant family of Ethernet switches architecture offers a fully centralized shared dynamically allocated packet buffer to absorb large packet bursts and provide advanced traffic management functions.

“Cavium’s support of SONiC is another example of expanding the open networking community effort,” said Jeff Catlin, VP Technology, Edgecore Networks. “Cavium’s continuing contributions to these open initiatives help to develop rich ecosystems of differentiated solutions, including the Cavium XPliant based Edgecore AS7512-32X switch, an OCP open hardware design.”

Yousef Khalidi, Corporate Vice President of Microsoft Azure Networking, said, "With Cavium SONiC support, the data center operators are getting the option to use a programmable switching silicon, delivering the flexibility the industry needs to embrace the full agility of the cloud. Cavium silicon is included in the Microsoft SONiC showcase, along with other vendors, where we demonstrate sharing the same software stack across multiple switch hardware platforms.”

Cavium will showcase an array of the company’s extensive portfolio of products and technologies for data centers based on XPliant programmable Ethernet switches, ThunderX® Server processors, QLogic FastLinQ® Ethernet adapters in booth B-15 at this week's OCP US Summit.

The switching demonstration will include a variety of hardware platforms such as Arista 7160, Edge-Core AS7512-32X and Wedge 100C and diversity of disaggregated switching software solutions available to run with XPliant ASICs such as FBOSS, OpenSwitch, PicOS, PontOS, SONiC and others.

To schedule a meeting with Cavium, please contact your local sales account manager or Lilly Ly (lly@cavium.com). Please enter Meeting Request at OCP 2017.

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 to Contribute the First Programmable Wedge 100C Switch Design to OCP

Cavium’s Programmable Switch Enables Innovative OCP Open Data Center Solutions

SAN JOSE, CA – January 24, 2017 – Cavium, Inc. (NASDAQ: CAVM) a leading provider of semiconductor products that provides intelligent processing for enterprise, data center, cloud, wired and wireless networking, today announced that it will contribute its Wedge 100C switch hardware design, based on the production ready, field deployed, XPliant® Programmable ASIC, to the Open Compute Project (OCP) Foundation.

The programmable Wedge 100C is an open switch platform, focused on Top of Rack deployments with 10G/25G/40G/50G/100G server connectivity and 100GbE uplinks to the aggregation layer of the network. The programmable Wedge 100C design uses Cavium XPliant CNX88091, programmable production-ready Ethernet switch and is based on the original OCP-ACCEPTED™ Wedge 100 switch specification and designs which were contributed by Facebook in October 2016.

The contributed network switch can be managed by a variety of Network Operation Systems (NOS), including the Facebook OpenSwitching System ("FBOSS") software stack.

Cavium’s XPliant Family of Ethernet Switches uniquely address the needs of today’s highly dynamic datacenter networks by enabling developers to continuously evolve and improve data center network operations. The world’s first programmable Wedge 100C open switch platform will allow developers to continuously introduce new protocols, adapt networks to new server technologies like containers, and improve network visibility without requiring the deployment of new network switching systems. These attributes extend the life cycle of the Wedge 100C switch, and deliver on the OCP vision of providing high ROI on the datacenter operator’s switching infrastructure investment.

“The Open Compute Networking Project is excited to see that Cavium has shared the Wedge 100C hardware design with the community,” said Omar Baldonado, OCP Networking Project Co-Lead. “Wedge 100C provides data center operators with the option of using a programmable switching silicon. This is the flexibility the industry needs from rich hardware and software.”

"Contributing the programmable Wedge 100C open switch platform to the OCP is an important step in supporting the OCP’s goal of maximizing innovation," said Eric Hayes, Vice President and General Manager of the Switching Platform Group at Cavium. “This contribution empowers today a community of developers to produce cost effective, innovative data center networking solutions, that are extremely beneficial to datacenter operators as they migrate their networks to 25 GbE and 100 GbE.”

About Cavium
Cavium, Inc. (NASDAQ: CAVM), offers a broad portfolio of integrated, software compatible processors ranging in performance from 1Gbps to 100Gbps that enable secure, intelligent functionality in Enterprise, Data Center, Broadband/Consumer, Mobile and Service Provider Equipment, highly programmable switches which scale to 3.2Tbps and Ethernet and Fibre Channel adapters up to 100Gbps. Cavium processors are supported by ecosystem partners that provide operating systems, tools and application support, hardware reference designs and other products. Cavium is headquartered in San Jose, CA with design centers in California, Massachusetts, India, China and Taiwan.

About the Open Compute Project
The Open Compute Project Foundation is a 501(c)(6) organization which was founded in 2011 by Facebook, Intel, and Rackspace. Our mission is to apply the benefits of open source to hardware and rapidly increase the pace of innovation in, near and around the data center and beyond.

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

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