Cavium Demonstrates Breakthrough NVMe over Fabrics Performance at Flash Memory Summit 2017

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

SAN JOSE, CA – August 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, will showcase a broad range of NVMe over Fabric solutions including FC-NVMe on Gen 6 Fibre Channel and NVMe over Fabrics concurrently over RoCE and iWARP on Cavium FastlinQ 45000/41000 Series Ethernet NICs at the Flash Memory Summit 2017 at Booth #815 from August 8-10, at the Santa Clara Convention Center.

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

Cavium is leading the transition to NVMe over Fabrics by enabling a broad range of high-performance solutions that seamlessly transition customer infrastructure and applications from legacy storage to current and next-generation flash/NVMe, and is the only solution supplier offering both NVMe-oF over Universal RDMA and Fibre Channel Adapters.

The Flash Memory Summit 2017 will feature the latest technology trends, the most exciting products, and the broadest coverage of a rapidly expanding market around flash, fabrics and end-to-end solutions. Cavium participation in Flash Memory Summit 2017 spans multiple live performance and interop demonstrations, speaking sessions by industry experts and product showcases. Key demonstrations and engagements include: 

• Demo: Breakthrough performance from an  end-to-end FC-NVMe solution with QLogic Gen 6 Fibre Channel delivering more than 2 million NVMe IOPS on the innovative SPDK-based software-defined storage framework @ Cavium Booth #815
• Demo: Industry’s only[1] solution that delivers technology choice and investment protection to customers with concurrent RoCE and iWARP transports for NVMe over Fabrics @ Cavium Booth #815
• Demo: Concurrent FCP and FC-NVMe end-to-end multi-vendor interoperability demonstration featuring QLogic Gen 6 Fibre Channel @ FCIA Booth #828
• Breakout Session: “Accelerate Access to Networked Flash with FC-NVMe” @ Forum V-31 on Thursday, August 10th at 8:30 a.m.
• Expert Panel: “Ultra-Fast NVMe Storage Networks for Next Generation Flash Array” Session 303-B @ Forum W-32 on Thursday, August 10th at 1:30 p.m.
• Expert Panel: “NVMe over Fabrics Does Networking Part 2b” @ Forum A-12 on Tuesday, August 8th at 5:00 p.m.

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

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

Cavium FastLinQ 40000 Series 10/25/40/50/100GbE, QLogic 2690 Series Enhanced Gen 5 16GFC and 2700 Series Gen 6 32GFC adapters are available from Cavium and multiple leading OEMs and ODMs.

For more information, visit www.qlogic.com/nvmeof and cavium.com/fastlinq.

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

About Cavium
Cavium, Inc. (NASDAQ: CAVM), offers a broad portfolio of infrastructure solutions for compute, security, storage, switching, connectivity and baseband processing. Cavium’s highly integrated multi-core SoC products deliver software compatible solutions across low to high performance points enabling secure and intelligent functionality in Enterprise, Data center and Service Provider Equipment. Cavium processors and solutions are supported by an extensive ecosystem of operating systems, tools, application stacks, hardware reference designs and other products. Cavium is headquartered in San Jose, CA with design centers in California, Massachusetts, India, Israel, China and Taiwan. For more information about the Company, 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 Expands XPliant® Product Portfolio with 10GbE and 25GbE Optimized Programmable Switch Devices

XP70 family addresses highest port count segment of data center switch market

SAN JOSE, CA – July 25, 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, announced the availability of the new XP60 and XP70 families of 10GbE/25GbE optimized programmable Ethernet switches. Targeted at the largest segment of the data center market, the XP70 family of programmable Ethernet switch devices scale from 1Tbps to 1.8Tbps and provides cost-effective seamless 1GBASE-T to 10GBASE-T and 10GbE to 25GbE access connectivity upgrades for enterprise, data center, and carrier networks with support for 40GbE/100GbE uplink connectivity.  Furthermore, the XP60 family brings programmable Ethernet switching capabilities to the campus, embedded, and carrier access markets with devices that scale from 280Gbps to 720Gbps.  The new XP60 and XP70 family, combined with the production qualified XP80 family of products now extends Cavium’s XPliant programmable architecture from 3.2Tbps down to 280Gbps.

According to Dell ‘Oro, more than 50% of all servers will be 10GE based by end of 2017, with 10GBase-T shipments growing the fastest and eventually overtaking SFP+ shipments by 2019. ^[[1]] Dell’Oro attributes this growth, in part, to the fact that twisted-pair cable has long remained a popular choice for connectivity due to its low cost and ability to terminate exact cable lengths in the field.  Additionally, these installed cable plants support seamless upgrades from 1GbE to 10GbE, giving the data center operators a simple choice for scaling their networks to support LAN/SAN consolidation and virtualization.

Today 100GbE is emerging as the optimal choice for the core network connectivity, for both intra- and inter-data center applications due to optical component and OEM “system level” prices that have fallen below the 40GbE benchmark, which has been considered and deployed as the “next step up” from 10GbE.

In this environment, the XP60 and XP70 families achieve the ideal mix of price, performance, and power while adding telemetry, and programmability to next-generation switching solutions. 

• ·         The XP60 family is cost and power optimized for 1GbE, 2.5GbE, and 10GbE access markets.
• ·         The XP70 family is cost and power optimized for 10GbE/25GbE Top of Rack systems with 100GbE uplinks.
• ·         Integrated Packet Trakker™ technology delivers a wealth of visibility and telemetry to solve the most intriguing diagnostic issues.
• ·         Fully shared centralized packet buffer.
• ·         Highly scalable network policy engine brings enterprise class security to hybrid cloud and cloud networks.
• ·         Flexible Uniport architecture supports 1G, 10G, 25G, 40G, 50G, and 100G MAC speeds independently per port.
• ·         Advanced traffic management engine and PFC architecture supports the most demanding mix of RoCE, iWARP, NVMe, and proprietary lossless applications.

Finally, the XP60 and XP70 families leverage the same programmable engines as the field-proven, volume shipping XP80 family.  This enables transparent software migration for current XP80 customers, as well as use of the entire XPliant suite of software tools.

Analyst Quotes

“There still exists a long life for 10GbE, in particular 10GBASE-T, in the data center,” said Seamus Crehan, president of Crehan Research. “Furthermore, we expect the majority of new data center core upgrades to be implemented with 100GbE given its attractive pricing coupled with the increase in data center network traffic.”

“Our research finds that the upgrade cycle from a 40G to 100G core is in full effect, but the solutions for 25Gbps access are still in the early adoption stage,” said Sameh Boujelbene, Senior Director at Dell Oro Group.  “We expect demand for 10G access to remain healthy for years to come.”

“Hybrid cloud an important architecture for enterprises shifting workloads to the cloud and programmable silicon covering 10/25/100GE speeds providing network traffic telemetry across hybrid cloud will be an imperative for achieving a high-quality user experience,” said Cliff Grossner, Ph.D., senior research director and advisor, Cloud and Data Center Research Practice, IHS Markit Technology. In a recent IHS Markit report, 54% of respondents indicated they would have hybrid clouds deployed by 2018, which will drive the need for 10/25/100GE programmable silicon.” ^[[2]]

The XP60 and XP70 families are now sampling to customers. Production qualified parts will be available this quarter.

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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^[[1]] Information based on Dell’Oro Groups, The Server Five Year Forecast Report, January 2017, Information is not an endorsement of Cavium. Any reliance on these results is at the third party's own risk. Visit www.delloro.com for more details.

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