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's XPliant™ Ethernet Switch Supports the Emerging Open Ecosystems

Open Compute Project (OCP), Open Network Install Environment (ONIE) and Switch Abstraction Interface (SAI)

SAN JOSE, California/PRNewswire/ -- Open Compute US Summit 2015 – Cavium, Inc., (NASDAQ: CAVM), a leading provider of semiconductor products that enable intelligent processing for enterprise, data center, wired and wireless networking today announced its commitment  to driving an open ecosystem for data center switching.  Qualification of hardware platforms as well as standardization of software interfaces enables both OEM and 3rd party innovation ushering in a new era in open Ethernet switching.

The Open Compute Project (OCP) was created with the goal of developing the most efficient data center designs for scalable solutions, by openly sharing ideas, specifications and other intellectual property. A growing number of established networking vendors are adopting OCP, contributing their own intellectual property. Cavium's XPliant team is working with both hardware and software vendors to submit OCP designs. This combination enables XPliant Packet Architecture™ (XPA)-powered switches to be the most flexible and open customer friendly architecture in the market.

The Open Network Install Environment (ONIE) is an OCP open source initiative that enables the decoupling of Ethernet switch hardware from networking software. Using a switch supplied with ONIE, the customer can freely add the software of their choice. The OCP specification has also defined an open API, Switch Abstraction Interface (SAI) that 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. XPliant switch SDK (software development kit) has full support of ONIE and has incorporated SAI. This enables customers to migrate from legacy switch architectures and easily adopt XPliant-powered switching solutions.

Cavium's XPliant Ethernet switch silicon combines the highest level of flexibility and performance which is unprecedented in the networking industry. The XPliant CNX880xx family of Ethernet switches provides an unparalleled flexibility in protocol processing without compromising throughput. Combining the new XPliant switch silicon with the emerging hardware and software open ecosystem will now enable true software defined networking (SDN).

The XPliant Packet Architecture (XPA) allows programming of every element of switch packet processing increasing feature velocity and rapid deployment of differentiating features. The XPliant switch features include:

• 3.2 Tbps 32x100G Ethernet switch
• Support of 25G Ethernet Consortium
• XPliant Packet Architecture (XPA) – Enables longer switch life-cycles and avoids fork-lift upgrades
• One box, multiple products – single XPliant hardware switch optimized for multiple places in network via custom software

"Customers building cloud infrastructures are increasingly turning to open network solutions which are optimized for web-scale applications," said George Tchaparian, CEO at Edge-Core Networks and GM of Data Center Networks at Accton Technology.  "Accton is developing 100GbE data center switches based on Cavium XPliant Ethernet Switch silicon, which Edge-Core will deliver to data center, telecom and enterprise customers who require the increased capacity, performance and flexibility which XPliant silicon enables."

"Cavium is a valued partner for Inventec and our collaboration will expand our software defined networking solutions and deliver the open networking platforms to our customers," said Daphne Chen, Director of Network Infrastructure Design Center at Inventec Corporation. "The flexibility powered by their XPA architecture of XPliant Ethernet switch enables the innovation to meet the demands and complexities imposed by the rapidly evolving data center environment."

Cavium is committed to providing open switch networking solutions, enabling the industry to easily migrate from legacy architectures to new efficient solutions for software defined data centers. Attendees at the Open Compute Project US Summit can visit Cavium in booth C12 and Accton in booth D22.

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's XPliant™ Ethernet Switch Supports the Emerging Open Ecosystems

Open Compute Project (OCP), Open Network Install Environment (ONIE) and Switch Abstraction Interface (SAI)

Cavium, Inc., (NASDAQ: CAVM), a leading provider of semiconductor products that enable intelligent processing for enterprise, data center, wired and wireless networking today announced its commitment  to driving an open ecosystem for data center switching.  Qualification of hardware platforms as well as standardization of software interfaces enables both OEM and 3rd party innovation ushering in a new era in open Ethernet switching.

The Open Compute Project (OCP) was created with the goal of developing the most efficient data center designs for scalable solutions, by openly sharing ideas, specifications and other intellectual property. A growing number of established networking vendors are adopting OCP, contributing their own intellectual property. Cavium's XPliant team is working with both hardware and software vendors to submit OCP designs. This combination enables XPliant Packet Architecture™ (XPA)-powered switches to be the most flexible and open customer friendly architecture in the market.

The Open Network Install Environment (ONIE) is an OCP open source initiative that enables the decoupling of Ethernet switch hardware from networking software. Using a switch supplied with ONIE, the customer can freely add the software of their choice. The OCP specification has also defined an open API, Switch Abstraction Interface (SAI) that 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. XPliant switch SDK (software development kit) has full support of ONIE and has incorporated SAI. This enables customers to migrate from legacy switch architectures and easily adopt XPliant-powered switching solutions.

Cavium's XPliant Ethernet switch silicon combines the highest level of flexibility and performance which is unprecedented in the networking industry. The XPliant CNX880xx family of Ethernet switches provides an unparalleled flexibility in protocol processing without compromising throughput. Combining the new XPliant switch silicon with the emerging hardware and software open ecosystem will now enable true software defined networking (SDN).

The XPliant Packet Architecture (XPA) allows programming of every element of switch packet processing increasing feature velocity and rapid deployment of differentiating features. The XPliant switch features include:

• 3.2 Tbps 32x100G Ethernet switch
• Support of 25G Ethernet Consortium
• XPliant Packet Architecture (XPA) – Enables longer switch life-cycles and avoids fork-lift upgrades
• One box, multiple products – single XPliant hardware switch optimized for multiple places in network via custom software

"Customers building cloud infrastructures are increasingly turning to open network solutions which are optimized for web-scale applications," said George Tchaparian, CEO at Edge-Core Networks and GM of Data Center Networks at Accton Technology.  "Accton is developing 100GbE data center switches based on Cavium XPliant Ethernet Switch silicon, which Edge-Core will deliver to data center, telecom and enterprise customers who require the increased capacity, performance and flexibility which XPliant silicon enables."

"Cavium is a valued partner for Inventec and our collaboration will expand our software defined networking solutions and deliver the open networking platforms to our customers," said Daphne Chen, Director of Network Infrastructure Design Center at Inventec Corporation. "The flexibility powered by their XPA architecture of XPliant Ethernet switch enables the innovation to meet the demands and complexities imposed by the rapidly evolving data center environment."

Cavium is committed to providing open switch networking solutions, enabling the industry to easily migrate from legacy architectures to new efficient solutions for software defined data centers. Attendees at the Open Compute Project US Summit can visit Cavium in booth C12 and Accton in booth D22.

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: www.cavium.com.

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Accton Technology Contributes Design of 100 Gigabit Ethernet Switch to Open Compute Project – the First OCP Design Based on Cavium XPliant Switch ASIC

• Providing value-add functionality for application acceleration, network configuration and provisioning, security, and isolation in multi-tenant compute clusters.

• Accelerating network performance in cloud data centers for Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) applications by offloading Open vSwitch with various server virtualization techniques.

• Providing security acceleration and support for overlay networks, IPsec encryption, DPI for application recognition and dynamic service chaining.

• Cloud configuration, provisioning and management utilizing OpenStack API services/ plugins and support SDN controllers including OpenDaylight and Floodlight. Cavium’s product demonstration will include LiquidIO IIoffloading (OVS and IPsec) with OpenStack Cloud OS network acceleration and provisioning.

• Fully integrated I/O including 10G and 40G Ethernet, PCIe Gen3 and SATAv3. ThunderX delivers full bandwidth and low latency across all of these interfaces.

• virtSOC™ technology delivers full system virtualization and SR-IOV capable IO. Hypervisor support for both KVM and Xen are fully enabled.

• Integrated security, networking and storage hardware accelerators. Easily enabled with standard kernel and library interfaces these hardware accelerators provide significant performance improvements for key cloud workloads such as secure compute, NFV, Cloud Storage and Big Data/Analytics.

• Support for industry standard server class software including UEFI and ACPI along with upstream support in the Linux Kernel, GCC Toolchain and OpenJDK Java.

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Cavium XPliant Switches and Microsoft Azure Networking Achieve SAI Routing Interoperability

Switch Abstraction Interface (SAI) reduces time-to-market for XPliant® switch deployment

SAN JOSE, CA, August 19, 2015 – 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 Microsoft Azure Networking has ported its L3 Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) routing stack to Cavium XPliant switches. This has been accomplished through the use of the Switch Abstraction Interface (SAI), which enables portability and interoperability across different hardware platforms.

Historically switch silicon vendors offered proprietary software interfaces requiring extensive software porting by customers to create an end user switch product.  This resulted in a proprietary lock-in for these legacy switch silicon vendors. The Switch Abstraction Interface (SAI) was defined as an abstraction interface for switching ASICs in order to remove these barriers.

SAI enables system developers to quickly and easily port software to the best switch silicon that supports these SAI abstractions. Earlier this year Cavium announced SAI support in the XPliant switch SDK (software development kit) and now released this software for general availability. Microsoft has easily ported Layer 3 BGP routing applications to the XPliant switch SDK based on the SAI interface.  This software is currently running on the XPliant based Edge Core AS7500-32X switch and is being demonstrated at the SIGCOMM 2015 event which is being held August 17-21 in London.

“SAI adoption will enable customers to seamlessly deploy multiple vendors' silicon into the network,” said Kamala Subramaniam, Principal Architect, Azure Networking at Microsoft. “We are excited that Cavium is taking innovative steps to bring the benefits of SAI - which include increased network agility and cost savings - to customers on their flexible XPliant silicon."

“We are proud to participate in Microsoft’s success of driving open networking through contributions to SAI,” said Eric Hayes, VP/GM, Switch Platform Group at Cavium. “By delivering SAI on our flexible XPliant switch silicon, we believe we will be able to deliver a more flexible and cost effective network that will help customers and partners alike embrace the full agility of the cloud."

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. The combination of leading performance and unprecedented flexibility is attractive across all these segments. These highly configurable Ethernet switches with bandwidths up to 3.2 Terabits per second in monolithic silicon support 1G, 10G, 25G, 40G, 50G and 100G interfaces. This family of switches will also provide connectivity solutions for embedded applications.

Microsoft’s L3 software running on the Edge Core AS7500-32X switch powered by Cavium’s XPliant switching silicon will be demonstrated during the Industrial demo session on Thursday August 20th at SIGCOMM 2015.

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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Tel: (408) 943-7417                                                                         
Email: angel.atondo@cavium.com

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