SAN JOSE, CA – June 27, 2017 – Today, Cavium, Inc. (NASDAQ: CAVM), a leading provider of semiconductor
products that enable secure and intelligent processing for enterprise and cloud
data centers, announced the FastLinQ 41000 Series, its low power, second
generation of 10/25/40/50GbE NIC and the industry's only NIC adapter with
Universal RDMA, making it the industry's most advanced 10/25/40/50Gbps Ethernet
NIC Family. Leveraging over a decade of networking technology expertise and
industry leadership, the cost and power optimized FastLinQ 41000 Series deliver
advanced networking for cloud and telco architectures. FastLinQ 41000 Series
NICs are available immediately from Cavium and will soon be available from
leading Tier-1 OEMs and ODMs worldwide in standard, mezzanine, LOM and OCP form
factors.
The unprecedented growth in demand for bandwidth is
driving data center networks to be scalable and offer on-demand bandwidth
provisioning and application agility. Data centers are expanding at a rapid
pace as is the virtualization and container density for compute, driving the
need for higher bandwidth between the server and switches. 25GbE, a new
standard in networking, leverages the maximum potential of Multi-core
processors, NVMe flash storage and cloud architectures to deliver 2.5 times the
performance, reducing the power and cost per gigabit significantly[1]. Although the cost, power and
performance benefits of 25Gbps Ethernet technology are undisputed, enterprise and
cloud data centers investing in 25GbE also require a flexible and highly
interoperable solution. This can be a challenge considering the mix of
pre-standard and standard-based 25GbE products in the market. In addition, the
recent spurs in malware-led intrusion and data theft are driving private and
public cloud networks to ensure that only trusted and validated software
components get deployed. Enterprise and cloud data centers also have differing
requirements driven by infrastructure and application workloads for latency and
congestion management, so flexibility of the networking solution is key. Cavium
FastLinQ 41000 Series family effectively addresses these challenges while
delivering a flexible and future proof networking solution.
The FastLinQ QL41000 family is the second
generation of standards compliant 25/50GbE NICs and the industry’s only NIC
adapter family that delivers customers the technology choice and investment
protection with support for concurrent RoCE, RoCEv2 and iWARP – Universal RDMA. The FastLinQ adapters coupled with leading
server and networking platforms enable enterprise data centers to optimize
their infrastructure costs and increase virtual machine density by leveraging built-in
technologies like concurrent SR-IOV and NIC Partitioning (NPAR) that deliver
acceleration and QoS for tenant workloads and infrastructure traffic. Additionally, the FastLinQ adapters provide
full Network Function Virtualization with excellent small packet performance
with integration into DPDK and OpenStack enabling Cloud and Telcos/NFV customers
to seamlessly deploy, manage and accelerate the most demanding artificial
intelligence, Big Data, CDN and Machine Learning workloads. Storage Acceleration
and offloads like NVMe-oF™, NVMe-Direct, iSCSI, iSER and FCoE built into the FastLinQ
QL41000 enable seamless upgrade paths from existing storage paradigms to next
generation NVMe and persistent memory semantics. Enabling zero-touch automatic
speed and FEC selection, Cavium FastLinQ SmartAN™ technology virtually
eliminates interoperability challenges in physical layer networks.
“The addition of FastLinQ 41000 Series of highly optimized 10/25/40/50GbE
NICs to Cavium’s broad Ethernet NIC portfolio enables Cavium to meet and exceed
the requirements of the most demanding enterprise, telco and cloud applications
and deliver scalability to drive business growth,” said Rajneesh Gaur, Vice President and General Manager
of Ethernet Adapter Group, Cavium. “FastLinQ 41000 Series provides a highly
differentiated solution by delivering flexibility
in choice of RDMA and seamless interoperability with a broad ecosystem of
Ethernet switching and server solutions using SmartAN™ technology”.
Purpose-built
for accelerating and simplifying data center networking, Cavium FastLinQ 41000
Series Ethernet technology delivers:
• Enterprise Class
Reliability, Flexibility and Security – With millions of Ethernet ports shipped, and a
flexible architecture that delivers faster time to market and future proofing
for new and emerging technologies, FastLinQ Ethernet NICs are amongst the top
choices for enterprise data centers. Cavium SmartAN technology enables adaptive
link controls for seamless zero-touch interoperability with industry wide
25/100GbE switches and cables. Extensive and robust support of a broad variety
of enterprise and cloud operating systems, including Microsoft Windows, Linux,
VMware ESXi, FreeBSD and Solaris for seamless integration for diverse
application platforms across x86, ARM, SPARC and Power8 architectures. Support
for UEFI Secure Boot safeguards the FastLinQ NIC and ensures no rogue drivers
are being executed on start-up, preventing the injection of malware.
• Cloud Ready – Industry’s only network
adapter that delivers the ultimate choice and investment protection with concurrent
support for RoCE, RoCEv2 and
iWARP.
Acceleration for Network
Virtualization by offloading protocol processing for VxLAN, NVGRE, GRE and
GENEVE enables customers to build and scale virtualized networks without
impacting network performance. Authenticated updates for NICs validate that
signed firmware is correct and trusted to eliminate rogue firmware installation,
reducing attack surfaces.
• Storage Acceleration
– Concurrent full
offload for NVMe-oF™, NVMe-Direct, SMB Direct, iSER, iSCSI and FCoE delivers up
to 3M IOPS while consuming fewer server CPU cycles, leaving headroom for virtual
applications and higher ROI on server investments with seamless upgrade paths
of next gen storage connectivity.
• Telco and
Network Function Virtualization (NFV) – Leading small packet performance, with line rate
packet per second for 10/25Gbps Ethernet, MPLSoUDP offload, and
integration with DPDK and OpenStack with Mirantis FUEL Plug-in, enables Telco’s and NFV
application vendors to seamlessly deploy, manage and accelerate the most
demanding NFV workloads.
FastLinQ 41000
Series Product Features:
·
10/25/40/50Gbps Ethernet connectivity across standard and OCP form
factors
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PCIe Gen 3 x8 with backward compatibility
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Passive heat sink design
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Universal RDMA – Concurrent RoCE, RoCEv2 and iWARP
·
Stateless offloads for VxLAN, NVGRE, GENEVE
·
SmartAN for seamless 10/25GbE interoperability
·
Full Storage protocol offloads for iSCSI, FCoE, iSER, NVMe-oF, SMB Direct
·
Secure Firmware Update and UEFI secure boot
·
Comprehensive Management across heterogeneous platforms with
QConvergeConsole GUI and CLI
Industry’s Most
Comprehensive Network Adapter portfolio –
Cavium offers the broadest set of Ethernet networking adapters – FastLinQ
Standard Ethernet Adapters, Converged Networking Adapters and LiquidIO™
Intelligent NICs that cover the entire spectrum of customer Ethernet
connectivity and offload requirements. Cavium Ethernet adapters are trusted by
customers worldwide.
Cavium FastLinQ 41000 Series are available now. For more information,
visit www.qlogic.com and www.cavium.com.
To learn more about how Cavium FastLinQ Universal RDMA Technology can
deliver the ultimate in flexibility and choice - register for a joint Cavium – The Linley
Group Webinar
Partner Supporting Quotes
“Arista Networks, as a fellow
founder of the 25G Ethernet consortium, recognizes the need for a strong
ecosystem. We have partnered with Cavium to ensure availability of tested and
interoperable solutions for hyperscale data centers,” said Martin Hull, Senior
Director Product Management for Arista Networks. “Cavium FastLinQ 41000 Series
of 10/25G NICs and Arista’s portfolio of 25G leaf and spine systems deliver
backward compatibility and investment protection with standards compliance.”
“Software Defined Networking and Storage Spaces Direct are the
foundation of Windows Server Software Defined (WSSD) solution offerings – a key
tenet of Microsoft’s hybrid cloud strategy that enables highly flexible,
economical, and cloud-scale data centers,” said Ravi Rao, Group
Manager, Windows Networking, Microsoft Corp. “We are pleased to see Cavium
FastLinQ 41000 Series of 10/25GbE NICs, with support for RoCE, RoCEv2, and
iWARP, achieve SDDC Premium certification that proves their ability to power
software defined data centers built using Windows Server 2016.”
“Most clouds and data centers today run on Ubuntu, the leading Cloud OS.
Canonical is pleased to partner with Cavium FastLinQ to announce NVMe-oF
support on Ubuntu 17.04 to supply the industry’s high performing and
low-latency storage networks needed for today's data centric applications,”
said Anand Krishnan, EVP of Cloud, Canonical
"Today's enterprise and telecommunications infrastructures rely on
open source innovations like OpenStack and Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK).
These same infrastructures also require a new level of connectivity, such as
that enabled by the Cavium FastLinQ™ 41000 Series,” said Gunnar Hellekson,
senior director, Product Management, Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat
Virtualization, Red Hat. “Red Hat is proud to help lead this open source
innovation, and we are pleased to work with Cavium and other contributors on
technologies such as RDMA and DPDK to help power the open, connected
infrastructure of the future."
“As software defined infrastructures evolve and newer kinds of workloads
are deployed on SDDC, requirements for network virtualization offloads, higher
bandwidth, lower costs and simplified management are increasing,”
said Sudhanshu (Suds) Jain, Product Manager, VMware. “Sharing the vision
of simplified infrastructure operations and increased application performance,
VMware is pleased to collaborate with Cavium to bring technology advancements
like FastLinQ 10/25GbE NICs with VxLAN and GENEVE offloads to the market.”
Analyst Supporting Quotes
The Cavium FastLinQ 41000 Series should have broad
market appeal given its support for the many protocols and features required by
today’s diverse and dynamic marketplace,” said Seamus Crehan, President of Crehan Research. “Designed to address the rapidly changing needs of the data center and
the specific needs of mega data centers run by telecommunications providers,
MSPs and enterprise private clouds.”
“Cavium FastLinQ 41000 Series
of network adapters address the demanding needs of the next-generation agile data
center by providing a flexible and future-proof solution,” said Shane Rau,
Research Vice President, Computing Semiconductors of IDC. “With a compelling
set of offloads for both server and storage applications, along with a flexible
architecture, these second-generation 25GbE NICs from Cavium are well poised to ride the wave of networking interconnects.”
“The data center market is well into a ramp for
deployment of 25/50GbE, with significant deployments in large cloud service
providers (CSPs) looking to migrate from 10GbE server connectivity to 25GbE
server connectivity with 100GbE switching. Mainstream enterprises are expected
to follow later in 2017,” said Cliff Grossner, Ph.D., Research Director and Advisor,
Data Center Research Practice, IHS Markit.
“In a recent IHS Markit report, we discovered that 25GE ports are
expected to represent 31% of adapter ports shipped by 2021. The introduction of
25GbE adapters targeting cloud, telco NFV, and enterprise specific use cases
are an important and timely event advancing the networking market, driving new
opportunity.” [2]
“Data centers are in the midst of a rapid migration
to distributed applications, a massive expansion in the size of the clustered
server environments--which together are driving a huge increase in IP traffic
inside the data center,” said Frank Berry, Founder and Senior Analyst at IT
Brand Pulse. “Servers in these data centers need both high bandwidth and low
latency network connectivity. Cavium 41000 Series adapters more than meet the challenge by providing
up to 100Gb throughput and multiple ultra-low latency technologies including
RoCE, iWARP and DPDK kernel bypass.”
“The FastLinQ QL41000 Series represents the Swiss army
knife of 25G Ethernet adapters,” said Bob Wheeler, Principal Analyst at The
Linley Group. “These NICs are unique in supporting both RoCE and iWARP while
also providing a broad set of storage and virtualization offloads.”
“Traditional network infrastructures are rigid and
complex, making it both time-consuming and error prone to deploy workloads that
require network changes,” said Paul Teich, Principal Analyst at TIRIAS
Research. “Organizations can achieve rapid scale and agility when they adopt
software-defined network (SDN) and software-defined storage (SDS) models for
deployment and management. Look beyond server virtualization to achieve higher
efficiency while also solving operational and security challenges.”
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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.
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