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
Media Contact - Cavium
