Cavium Announces Packet Trakker: A Programmable Network Telemetry Suite

Packet Trakker™ available on XPliant® switches, delivers comprehensive telemetry to increase network efficiency and improve application performance

SAN JOSE, CA – March 20, 2018 – 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 the availability of Packet Trakker, a programmable network telemetry suite supported by Cavium’s XPliant family of programmable Ethernet switches.

The need to manage the interaction between network infrastructure resources and constantly changing application workloads to maintain data center performance has never been more important. Within the XPliant software defined networking framework, Packet Trakker enables comprehensive data center infrastructure performance management. Networks built with XPliant switches can now deploy Packet Trakker to provide the following operational benefits:

• Maintenance of a detailed history of switch resource utilization data and network performance logging that is used to perform performance validation.
• Exportation of detailed real-time switch utilization and network performance data that can be used to identify network resource contention patterns and isolate which workloads are causing resource contention.
• Enabling the use of programmable instrumentation data gathering contexts that enable fine grained control of how telemetry information is organized for consumption by visualization tools and analytics engines.
• Monitoring of system health and immediately alarms system management applications to circumstances that can cause data center performance degradation and equipment failure.
• Microburst detection and identification of flows that destabilize application performance. 
• Tracking of latency fluctuations that negatively impact application behavior predictability.
• Detection of packet loss that is destructive to applications performance, which can be avoided through notification of pre-congestion in transmit queues.
• Identification of inconsistent configurations or packet processing exceptions.

Packet Trakker integrates with Network Operating Systems (NOS) and analytics engines, to deliver a comprehensive set of telemetry features that monitor network status in real-time and at scale. This technology assists data center network operators in dynamic remediation operations that continuously improve network efficiency and application quality of experience. Furthermore, the XPliant programmable switch architecture is future proofed for the continuously evolving world of Software-Defined Networking.

“I am pleased with the amount of positive feedback we continue to receive from customers utilizing Packet Trakker hardware acceleration to monitor networks more closely and accurately than legacy solutions,” said Eric Hayes, VP/GM Switching Platform Group at Cavium. “I am excited to see how the flexibility of the XPliant Packet Architecture will further innovation of real-time granular telemetry in order to reliably deploy new network services.”

“Packet Trakker is an intriguing powerful technology to address some of the critical challenges in today’s networks,” says Gavin Cato, Senior Vice President for Networking Development Engineering at Dell EMC. “Packet Trakker deployed on Dell EMC switches such as the S5148-ON has the ability to provide deeper insights into device resources and advance network analytics for better network operations.”

“Packet Trakker programmable telemetry accelerates development of new innovative solutions for mobile network quality analysis and real-time diagnostics,” says Dr. Kang-Won Lee, SVP, Head of Software R&D Center, SK Telecom. “We believe it significantly improves the network visibility that leads to improvements of reliability, performance and utilization efficiency."

“Packet Trakker addresses some of the most critical challenges operators face today in managing their networks,” said Seamus Crehan, president of Crehan Research. “Detailed real-time visibility and network remediation based on XPliant programmable telemetry capabilities provide key tools for automated self-healing solutions, which is the next step to increasing network uptime and lowering OpEx.”

Availability
The XPliant Packet Trakker is available now to customers and partners. 

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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 

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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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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.

Media Contact

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

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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 Seamlessly Connects OpenSwitch Software on XPliant® Switches

OpenXPS APIs Enable Extensibility of Open Source Network Operating Systems

Open Compute US Summit 2016 – San Jose, CA, March 9, 2016 – Cavium, Inc., (NASDAQ: CAVM), a leading provider of semiconductor products that enable intelligent processing for enterprise, data center, cloud, wired and wireless networking, today announced support for the OpenSwitch open source network operating system (NOS) on Cavium XPliant switches.  Additionally, Cavium introduced Open APIs for the XPliant Programmable Switch (OpenXPS) open source software.

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. It enables a developer ecosystem with the ability to accelerate innovation and realize investment protection, allowing IT organizations to rapidly build data center networks customized for unique business applications.

“Cavium’s support of OpenSwitch is another example of expanding the open source community effort,” said George Tchaparian CEO Edgecore Networks. “Cavium’s OpenXPS support for these open initiatives including OpenSwitch, SAI, and ONL enables rich ecosystems of differentiated solutions, including those open software options on the Cavium’s XPliant based Edgecore AS7500-32X switch, an open hardware design contributed to the Open Compute Project (OCP).”

OpenXPS APIs 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.  Users now have more freedom to select their software control plane in disaggregation with the hardware, boosting application innovation. OpenSwitch can now use OpenXPS APIs to control the XPliant switch hardware platforms, leveraging a high degree of extensibility.

“We are very pleased to see Cavium continuing to grow the collaborative community with OpenXPS,” said Mark Atwood, community director, OpenSwitch. “The XPliant-based switching solutions expand the OpenSwitch ecosystem and help address the rapidly evolving needs of the open networking industry. Network switches based on OpenSwitch allow IT staff better control of their infrastructure through disaggregation, the freedom of avoiding vendor lock-in, faster time to service and lower overall ownership costs compared to traditional solutions.”

"As we enter the age of the open API economy, Cavium is excited to contribute OpenXPS API’s to the community to further enable the digital transformation,” said Eric Hayes, Vice President and General Manager of the Switching Platform Group at Cavium.  “The XPliant switching architecture’s flexibility is now easily exposed for developers to meet the challenges of scaling up the next generation networking mega platforms.”

OpenSwitch NOS software running on the Edgecore AS7500-32X switch powered by Cavium's XPliant switching silicon will be demonstrated during the OCP U.S. Summit on March 9-10 and at Open Networking Summit (ONS) on March 14-16.

Availability
OpenXPS is publicly available now at https://github.com/XPliant/OpenXPS
The OpenSwitch Community is operating today. Visit www.openswitch.net for more information about OpenSwitch NOS, the developer releases and plugins available.

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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