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/. 

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Cavium, Inc.
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Email: angel.atondo@cavium.com

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Cavium Joins Telecom Infra Project to Enable OpenCellular Access to LTE, LTE-A and NFV/5G Technologies

Demonstrates Live OpenCellular with LTE MIMO, in Hall 2 M33 at Mobile World Congress

SAN JOSE, Calif. and BARCELONA, Spain Feb. 27, 2017 – Cavium, Inc., (NASDAQ: CAVM), a leading provider of semiconductor products that enable secure and intelligent processing for enterprise, data center, wired and wireless networking announced that it has joined the Telecom Infra Project (TIP), an initiative founded by Facebook, SK Telecom, Deutsche Telekom and others, that encourages the adoption of an open approach to global networks. As part of an ongoing commitment to support advances in telecom infrastructure networks, Cavium will contribute key wireless access technologies to TIP's OpenCellular project group in order to address the demand for faster, more agile networks around the globe.

Cavium will contribute and support the design of a complete, production-ready hardware design for a single sector LTE 2T2R MIMO (64/128 user) for OpenCellular in the second half of 2017. The design will be based on the OCTEON Fusion CNF7130 baseband processor, and will also have the associated end-to-end L1 to L3 software stack, ensuring easy and predictable deployment.  Cavium will also provide open source access to certain APIs to allow the community to further enhance and expand the capabilities of the LTE cell. Additional software contributions of open APIs for the transport layer and timing synchronization are also planned. Cavium will continue to offer its direct licensees the ability to provide highly differentiated LTE basestation solutions based on the same processor technology. Cavium will continue the contribution and community support effort via its latest OCTEON Fusion-M four sector 8T8R, multimode (GSM/WCDMA/LTE) CNF7330 processor and reference design, capable of supporting 512 to 1024 users. This state-of-the-art device supports advanced features compliant with 3GPP releases 12 and 13, and provides an excellent platform for dense deployments. In addition, Cavium will, provide open source access to various NFV and 5G APIs to allow the community to further broaden its reach into new areas.

“We welcome Cavium's membership and contribution to the Telecom Infra Project. The combination of their hardware designs, open APIs and robust software offering provides a near market ready solution to the TIP community,” said Dr. Alex Jinsung Choi, CTO of SK Telecom and TIP Chairman. “We look forward to working with the community to deploy these exciting technologies for LTE, LTE-A and eventually 5G.”

"We share TIP's vision of open, connected telecom infrastructure with universal access,” said Raj Singh, Vice President & General Manager, Network & Communication Group at Cavium. “OCTEON Fusion-M baseband processors are extensively deployed in advanced carrier networks and are field proven designs. We believe our contribution will help propagate advanced wireless telecom technologies to the broader community allowing for new and exciting innovations in the industry.”

The Facebook/TIP Open Cellular LTE implementation is being demonstrated on the Cavium booth at Mobile World Congress in Hall2 M33

To schedule a meeting at Mobile World Congress, please send an email to sales@cavium.com and enter MWC 2017 Meeting Request 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.

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

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Cavium and China Unicom Sign Collaboration Agreement for Virtualized RAN Technology

Parties to work together to accelerate virtualized BBUs based on General-Purpose Processors

SAN JOSE, CA December 8th, 2016 - Today, Cavium, Inc. (NASDAQ: CAVM), a leading provider of semiconductor products that enable intelligent processing for Enterprise, Telco, MSP and cloud data centers, announced an agreement with China Unicom to accelerate the design and development of Virtualized BBU and provide a path for 5G adoption. The collaboration will focus on commercializing vBBU systems using general purpose hardware based on Cavium’s ThunderX® workload optimized data server processors which are built on ARM architecture. In addition, Cavium has joined the China Unicom CORD Industry Alliance and will drive adoption of open source architecture and technologies in China together with China Unicom.

China Unicom and Cavium will work together on new innovative fronthaul solutions, system architecture and vBBU performance and deployment. This collaboration allows Cavium to align with China Unicom’s commercial networks technology development and innovation, research feasibility of Next Generation Virtualized Wireless Access Network, perform lab and field testing, evaluate results, drive deployment of developed technologies into commercial network, carry out lab and field performance test and assessment, accelerate pilot and application of new technical innovations in real-world networks.

“We are very pleased to collaborate with China Unicom in this critical area. As network capacity continues to be stretched and the user demands continue to grow the industry is faced with significant challenges which cannot be solved by traditional means,” said Raj Singh General Manager of the Wireless Broadband Group at Cavium. “The use of advanced general purpose hardware such as Cavium’s ThunderX workload optimized data severs allows us to provide a highly scalable virtualized solution for these requirements.”

“Virtualized network based on general purpose hardware and open source technologies represents the overall direction for future network changes. China Unicom partners with Cavium, a leader in virtualized BBU technology field, to drive R&D of virtualization products based on general purpose processors, thus laying a solid foundation for building new generation of network infrastructure,” said Dr. Tang Xiongyan, CTO of Network Technology Research Institute, China Unicom. 

About Cavium

Cavium, Inc. (NASDAQ: CAVM), offers a broad portfolio of integrated, software compatible processors ranging in performance from 1Gbps to 100Gbps that enable secure, intelligent functionality in Enterprise, Data Center, Broadband/Consumer, Mobile and Service Provider Equipment, highly programmable switches which scale to 3.2Tbps and Ethernet and Fibre Channel adapters up to 100Gbps. Cavium processors are supported by ecosystem partners that provide operating systems, tools and application support, hardware reference designs and other products. Cavium is headquartered in San Jose, CA with design centers in California, Massachusetts, India, China and Taiwan. For more information, please visit: http://www.cavium.com.

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Angel Atondo

Sr. Marketing Communications Manager

Telephone: +1 408-943-7417

Email: angel.atondo@cavium.com

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