Cavium Showcases Next-Generation 5G Radio Access and Core Networks, Telco Cloud and Edge Infrastructure Solutions at Mobile World Congress 2018

OCTEON®, OCTEON Fusion–M® and ThunderX2® SoCs accelerate intelligent networks from the core to the edge

SAN JOSE, CA, and BARCELONA, SPAIN February 26, 2018 – Cavium™, Inc., a leading provider of semiconductor products that enable secure and intelligent processing for enterprise, data center, and wired and wireless networking, will showcase a number of technologies incorporating the company’s award winning OCTEON, OCTEON Fusion–M, OCTEON TX™ and ThunderX2 SoCs at Mobile World Congress 2018. The conference will start on Monday February 26 and run through Thursday March 1, 2018, in Barcelona, Spain.

Cavium will present its vision for next-generation 5G Radio Access Networks, FWA and IoT deployments, SDN core networks, and telco cloud and edge infrastructure solutions. The company’s MWC presence will include several networking demonstrations and will highlight its key contributions to industry associations, such as the Telecom Infra Project’s (TIP) OpenCellular program and the Open Network Foundation’s CORD program.

“Cavium is well aware that there is not a “one-size-fits-all” 5G NR deployment model,” said Raj Singh, Vice President and General Manager of Cavium’s Network and Communications Group.  “Instead different operators will have different approaches.  Some will be incremental and co-exist with LTE, some will focus on specific use cases such as fixed wireless access.  Others will incorporate split RAN architectures and core network virtualization.  Whichever approach an operator decides to implement, Cavium has the technology to make it work.”

Cavium will host visitors and present live demonstrations in Hall 2, booth number 2M61. The following technologies will be covered:

• 5G NR solutions – next generation OCTEON Fusion-M and OCTEON TX silicon for basestations and remote radio heads, new 3GPP protocol stack split implementations, massive MIMO capabilities.
• Fixed Wireless Access base stations - live demonstration featuring an OEM–designed 3–sector eNodeB incorporating a single CNF73xx processor running LTE software based on Cavium’s L1–L3 stack.
• ONF M–CORD IoT use case - SDN, NFV, C–RAN and MEC live demonstration featuring a pre–5G IoT use case running on the ONF–defined open source M–CORD platform. This proof of concept (POC) demonstration features the following Cavium silicon and software implementations:
• Distributed Unit (DU) – OCTEON Fusion–M based intelligent radio head running Cavium’s implementation of 3GPP fronthaul split options 2 and 5 LTE PHY.
• Central Unit (CU) – ThunderX2 baseband implementation running Cavium’s implementation of 3GPP fronthaul split options 2 and 5 LTE stack software.
• Core Network – ThunderX2 servers hosting a vEPC, ONF XOS orchestration software and ONOS-controlled XPliant® programmable SDN switch fabric. 
• Production Version of the Telecom Infra Project Connect - LTE Base station
• Announced in 2016, the Telecom Infra Project (TIP) Connect–LTE base station design is now ready for the first round of field trials. This live demonstration features a commercial prototype Connect–LTE eNodeB featuring the OCTEON Fusion–M CNF7130 baseband processor and Cavium’s TIP–contributed LTE stack software. The demonstration also includes an OCTEON TX–based edge server running a vEPC and open source edge applications providing content caching, firewall and media server functions.
• Universal CPE
• Live demonstration of OCTEON TX ARMv8-based uCPE white box with commercial NFV applications.

Other Cavium-enabled networking demonstrations will be present at the Conference, including:

• Virtualized Mobile Core Network – a complete end-to-end containerized mobile network with live traffic on commercial UEs, will be shown in the ARM booth (Hall 6 Stand 6E30)

Network Slicing – end-to-end network slicing running Netsia’s ProgRAN on M-CORD.  Orchestrated by ONAP and delivered through XPliant P4-enabled switches with OCTEON Fusion-M remote radio units.  This demonstration can be found at the Open Networking Foundation booth in Hall 5 number 5I61 and the Netsia booth in Hall 1 number 1C40.

For more information on Cavium’s products or to schedule a meeting with Cavium at MWC 2018, please contact your local sales account manager or Lilly Ly (lly@cavium.com). Please enter Meeting Request at MWC 2018 in the subject line.

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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. 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 to Demonstrate Next-generation NFV, SDN, 5G and Telco Cloud Infrastructure Solutions at NFV World Congress 2017

SAN JOSE, CA – May 3, 2017 – Cavium, Inc. (NASDAQ: CAVM), a leading provider of semiconductor products that enable secure and intelligent processing for enterprise, datacenter, cloud, wired and wireless networking, will demonstrate the company’s next generation NFV, SDN, 5G, and Telco Cloud Infrastructure solutions at NFV World Congress May 3^rd - 5^th at the DoubleTree Hotel in San Jose, California. 

NFV World Congress was founded in 2014 by a group of visionary and senior carrier leaders, in order to form a center of gravity for the rapidly emerging NFV industry, and provide the right forum to accelerate innovation and support ecosystem growth. Over 1,000 delegates attended the launch event in spring 2015, growing to over 1,300 delegates in 2016, along with 50+ exhibitors and over 20 live demos.

Cavium will showcase the following demonstrations in booth #10:

• M–CORD Demonstration: SDN, NFV, C–RAN and Multi–access Edge Computing
• Open source SDN/NFV proof–of–concept demonstration based on our collaboration with ON.Lab and multiple network operators. M–CORD is the Mobile – Central Office Re–architected as Datacenter project. This PoC demonstration features Cavium processor-based COTS hardware from the RAN to the core network. In addition, commercial VNFs as Edge services will be demonstrated in Multi–access Edge Computing scenario running on a NFV infrastructure that is based on Cavium ThunderX® ARM based COTS servers and XPliant® based SDN white box switch.
• Multi–mode Basestation On-a-Chip
• Single–chip Macrocell / Microcell and smart radio head processors supporting 3GPP releases 10 – 13.
• 64–bit ARM Processors for COTS Servers, Carrier–Grade NFV across Cloud/Edge/On–Premise, IoT Gateway, Embedded Applications
• ThunderX® servers and OCTEON TX™ ODM boxes featuring rich ecosystems: OS distros, dataplane and security processing acceleration, Ceph storage and more.
• Telco Cloud Security and NFV Acceleration
• LiquidIO® intelligent Adapters enable network virtualization for network and security acceleration including OVS, vRouter, Firewall, IPSec, NFV based virtual appliances and Service Function Chaining. ETSI NFV ISG PoC #41 “Network Function Acceleration” scenarios.
• QLogic® FastLinQ® Ethernet Adapter Family
• 10/25/50/100 GbE connectivity with DPDK, NVMf with Universal RDMA, OVS, SDN Tunneling and OpenStack support for telco and private/hybrid cloud applications.
• Security as a Service for Telco Cloud
• LiquidSecurity™ appliance provides key management and crypto offload for virtual network functions such as vADC and vFW.

To schedule a meeting with Cavium, please contact your local sales account manager or Lilly Ly (lilly.ly@cavium.com). Please enter Meeting Request at NFV World Congress 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, Datacenter 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 QLogic Accelerates Cloud Deployments with OpenStack Integration

QLogic® FastLinQ™ Ethernet Adapters and QConvergeConsole® automate OpenStack® Configurations

BARCELONA, SPAIN – Oct. 25, 2016 – Today, Cavium, Inc. (NASDAQ: CAVM), a leading provider of semiconductor products that enable intelligent processing for enterprise and cloud data centers, announced that it is showcasing technologies available for its FastLinQ™ line of 10/25/40/50/100GbE Ethernet adapters that accelerate the deployment of OpenStack by delivering the ability to orchestrate and manage an OpenStack configuration for hybrid and public cloud deployments. QLogic technologies like the Plug-in for Mirantis® Fuel for automatic SR-IOV configuration across multiple OpenStack nodes and QConvergeConsole (QCC) for OpenStack physical and logical topology maps enable hyperscale, private/hybrid and telco cloud deployments with Cavium QLogic Ethernet NICs to be accelerated with OpenStack. In addition, the ability to deliver QoS for network functions with QLogic FastLinQ technology comprise the broad set of technology investments.

Dynamics of Deploying an OpenStack Managed Infrastructure
As the scale of private and public cloud infrastructures grow exponentially, the orchestration of the discreet components that comprise the cloud has becoming increasingly challenging. OpenStack is a scalable, open sourced cloud computing platform that enables the construction of flexible IT infrastructures by bringing a harmony to the discreet but interconnected system, enabling it to be managed as one holistic solution serving storage, compute, and networking needs. While OpenStack has seen tremendous industry acceptance and support, some challenges still remain. The initial deployment and operation of OpenStack, which spans various services and projects and multi-vendor infrastructures, can be a significant hurdle in realizing the full potential of OpenStack. An OpenStack installation can be a manual, time-consuming and often complex process of deploying and configuring discreet hardware components and functions. In addition, current OpenStack inbuilt management services lack the ability to deliver an in-depth view of the interactions between OpenStack components. Customers are demanding a solution to gain better control of an OpenStack infrastructure from initial deployment to ongoing operations.  

QLogic Ethernet Integrations in OpenStack Simplify Deployment and Operation
Realizing the potential of a successful OpenStack deployment and the challenges that such a process entails, Cavium along with the OpenStack community have invested in several key technologies that allow the seamless integration and accelerated deployment of various networking technologies like SR-IOV with OpenStack. In addition, QLogic Ethernet management offerings deliver in-depth visibility of the OpenStack cloud along with the ability to control and guarantee network bandwidth for tenant workloads. Purpose built for accelerating and simplifying OpenStack deployments, these investments include:

• QLogic Plug-in for Mirantis Fuel for Automatic OpenStack Configuration – Single-pane-of-glass capabilities to configure SR-IOV functions across multiple nodes and eliminate manual error prone and time consuming tasks by leveraging the capabilities of the QLogic Plug-in for Mirantis Fuel. This accelerates the virtual network configurations for large scale deployments and is supported by an in-depth step by step installation runbook.
• QConvergeConsole (QCC) enables the visualization of OpenStack Components – With the ability to dynamically map the topology of an OpenStack environment, QLogic QCC enables cloud administrators to visualize the connections between virtual and physical devices, storage volumes and OpenStack services. This unique capability delivers in-depth visibility into OpenStack operations and QLogic networking components to maximize uptime, by giving operations staff the ability to map the OpenStack services interconnected by QLogic FastLinQ technology.
• Quality of Service for Tenant Networking Traffic – QLogic FastLinQ networking technology integrates with OpenStack Liberty to deliver dynamic control over tenant networking's share of the physical infrastructure. With the ability to guarantee network requirements like bandwidth, IaaS/SaaS providers can easily deliver on a strict Service Level Agreement (SLA) to their customers.

Visit the Cavium Booth #B36 at OpenStack Summit Barcelona, Spain to learn more about how OpenStack deployments can leverage QLogic networking technologies.

Supporting Quotes
"QLogic 3400/8400/45000 series of FastLinQ Ethernet adapters support a comprehensive set of virtualization and multi-tenant services for the most sophisticated data centers, telco and cloud providers," said Rajneesh Gaur, general manager and vice president of Ethernet Adapter Group, Cavium. "With integrations into Mirantis Fuel and extensive visibility provided by QConvergeConsole, OpenStack cloud deployments and operations are simplified, accelerating their adoption into hyperscale datacenters."

Cavium QLogic is an OpenStack community member and a corporate sponsor.

For more information, visit:

1. QLogic OpenStack Webpage - http://www.qlogic.com/solutions/Pages/OpenStack.aspx
2. Mirantis Unlocked Partner - https://www.mirantis.com/partners/qlogic/ and http://plugins.mirantis.com/docs/q/l/Fuel-plugin-qlogic-sriov/qlogic-sriov-1.0-1.0.0-1.pdf
3. OpenStack Networking with QoS - http://docs.openstack.org/liberty/networking-guide/adv-config-qos.html
4. QLogic Corporate Website: www.qlogic.com

About Cavium
Cavium, Inc. (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 products ranging in performance from 100 Mbps to 100 Gbps that enable secure and intelligent functionality for compute, network connectivity, storage and wireless applications. 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.

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

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Cavium Showcases Innovative NFV/SDN Technology Solutions at NFV World Congress 2016

SAN JOSE, CA, April 19, 2016 – Cavium, Inc., (NASDAQ: CAVM), a leading provider of semiconductor products that enable intelligent processing for cloud, data center, telco infrastructure, enterprise, wired and wireless networking, is demonstrating the company’s innovative solutions for NFV, SDN, Security, 5G Networks, and Telco Cloud at this week’s NFV World Congress 2016. The show expo dates are from April 20th – 22nd at the DoubleTree Hilton Hotel in San Jose, California.

NFV World Congress and its sister SDN & OpenFlow World Congress in Europe are the principal global industry forums for NFV+SDN. Every six months, the industry meets face-to-face to examine and debate progress, learn and exchange knowledge, and to showcase how the combination of NFV, SDN, MANO and Open Source will provide the next generation of telecom networking.

Cavium remains at the forefront of NFV and SDN technology with advanced and highly-scalable solutions in ThunderX® workload optimized standard ARM servers, XPliant® programmable SDN fabric, OCTEON Fusion-M™, LiquidSecurity™ and LiquidIO® intelligent NICs to address the complex needs of the industry. These solutions leverage Cavium’s fully-virtualized integrated multicore processors and baseband SoC’s, SDN switching, and intelligent adapters supported by a wide range of open source communities, standard operating systems, virtualization software, and software applications.

Cavium will showcase the following NFV/SDN technology solutions in the Bayshore ballroom at booth 8:

• Cloud / Centralized RAN with SDN - Fully Programmable, dis-aggregated, low latency SDN–based RAN solution for LTE and 5G.
• OPNFV Compliant NFV Platform - ThunderX 48–core, 64–bit ARM processor families for COTS servers and embedded applications. Supported by rich eco–systems of OS distros, OEM/ODM servers including OCP and telco OCP servers, dataplane acceleration and Ceph storage.
• Telco Cloud and NFV acceleration - LiquidIO intelligent server NIC cards offloading IPsec, OVS, Service Function Chaining, DPI, and NVMe–over–fabric.
• Security as a Service for Telco Cloud - LiquidSecurity appliance for key management in the cloud.
• Fully Programmable Top-of-Rack and Spine SDN Switch - Extensible, feature rich, cloud scale datacenter XPliant switches providing bandwidth from 1Tbps to 3.2Tbps.

To schedule a meeting with Cavium, please contact your local sales account manager or Lilly Ly (lly@cavium.com). Please enter Meeting Request at NFV 2016 in the subject line.

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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.

Cavium Contact:
Angel Atondo 
Sr. Marketing Communications Manager,
Cavium, 2315 N. First Street,
San Jose CA 95131, 
Telephone: +1 408-943-7417

Email: angel.atondo@cavium.com

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