Cavium and Sprint Collaborate for NFV Testing on Packet’s Public Cloud

Sprint orchestrates Virtualized Mobile Core Network on Containers running on Cavium ThunderX2™ArmV8.1 workload optimized data center server processors in the Packet bare metal cloud

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, wired and wireless networking, announced a collaboration with Sprint Corporation, a national carrier in the United States, using Packet, a cloud service provider, public cloud based on Cavium ThunderX2 Arm®-based servers and virtualized mobile core network orchestrated on Containers. 

Sprint’s testing has demonstrated promising total cost of ownership (TCO) advantages over conventional architecture. A live demonstration of this testing, including a complete end-to-end containerized mobile network with live traffic on commercial UE, will be shown at Mobile World Congress 2018 in Barcelona, Spain, at both the Arm booth (Hall 6 Stand 6E30) and Cavium booth (Hall 2 Stand 2M61). 

The containerized mobile core network (cEPC) runs at Packet, a commercially available public cloud, on Cavium ThunderX2 Arm-based servers. The radio access network is a 3GPP compliant split-RAN implementation with both the vBBU (virtualized baseband unit) and the remote radio unit running on Cavium silicon (ThunderX2 and OCTEON Fusion-M® processors). 

“We see a great opportunity driving better economics and TCO with increased power savings using Arm-based servers, thereby enabling further distribution to the edge,” said Aaron Hinkle, Systems Architect, Technology, Innovation and Architecture, Sprint.

“Arm and our ecosystem of partners have been actively growing systems, especially targeting NFV and service provider network use cases,” said Drew Henry, senior vice president and general manager, Infrastructure Business Unit, Arm. “This is a significant step forward in completing end-to-end virtualized mobile network deployed on an Arm-based infrastructure which will enable the next trillion connected devices.” 

“We are very excited to collaborate with Sprint to test innovative NFV deployment scenarios and to showcase the promising TCO and power savings live demonstrations using our ThunderX2 Arm-based servers and 3GPP compliant virtualized RAN implementation,” said Raj Singh, Vice President & General Manager of the Network & Communication Group, Cavium. “Cavium has been collaborating with many service providers on innovative NFV projects both directly and in open source communities utilizing our differentiated and highly scalable Arm-based processor and SoC families, rich software, and hardware eco-systems, and strong application domain expertise.”

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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: https://www.cavium.com/. 

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Cavium, Inc.
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Cavium and Leading Partners Showcase ThunderX® ARM-based Server Platforms, QLogic® FastLinQ Ethernet Adapters and Fibre Channel HBAs for High Performance Computing at SC16

SALT LAKE CITY, Nov. 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, today announced the showcasing of ThunderX based workload optimized server platforms and the QLogic FastLinQ Ethernet Adapters and Fibre Channel HBAs for High Performance Computing, Data Analytics, Scale Out Storage and Hyperscale Data Centers at SC16 in the Salt Palace Convention Center in Salt Lake City, Utah.  The show Expo dates are from Monday, November 14th to Thursday, November 17th.

ThunderX is Cavium's 64-bit ARMv8server processor family for next generation high performance computing and hyperscale workloads. With up to 48 high-performance custom cores, single and dual socket capability, high memory bandwidth and capacity, and integrated hardware accelerators, ThunderX enables best-in-class ARMv8 performance per dollar and performance per watt. The ThunderX family includes multiple SKUs that enable servers optimized for compute, storage, network and security workloads in the cloud, and is widely supported by industry-leading OS, hypervisor, software tool and application vendors. ThunderX is also optimized for networking specific workloads such as Network Functions Virtualization (NFV).

From the heart of the data center, to the edge of the enterprise, and in the cloud,  QLogic® Fibre Channel and Ethernet adapters deliver an uncompromising suite of features, performance and reliability with a comprehensive suite of offerings that span 10GbE to 100GbE, and 8GFC to 32GFC (Gen6).  QLogic Fibre Channel adapters are the gold standard in SAN connectivity, trusted with running mission critical applications across the world, and the QLogic FastLinQ Ethernet adapters are the most flexible data networking solutions in the industry supporting FCoE, iSCSI and RDMA transports.  Together, these products make Cavium the industry leader in high performance network connectivity solutions.

Show Highlights and Demonstrations

Cavium executives will be available to discuss the broad range of ThunderX based production platforms, which are ideal for critical workloads such as highly parallel HPC applications, scale out storage with CEPH, Apache Hadoop for Big Data Analytics, distributed data bases such as MySQL & Cassandra, and Web Serving with NGINX. In addition to the ThunderX based ODM and OEM platforms, Cavium's QLogic® FastLinQ Ethernet Adapters and Fibre Channel HBAs will be on display at Cavium's booth #4057 including:

• QLogic FastLinQ 10/25/40/50/100 Gb Ethernet Adapters
• QLogic Enhanced Gen5 and Gen6 Fibre Channel Adapter
• ThunderX System Partners including: Aewyn, E4, Gigabyte and Lenovo

Cavium representatives will also be presenting more details on ThunderX at a number of partner sponsored events during the week.  These events include the ARM HPC User Group as well as presentations at the Red Hat and SUSE booths during the week at the Convention Center. 

To schedule a meeting at SC16, please send an email to sales@cavium.com and enter SC16 Meeting Request in the subject line.

About Cavium
Cavium, Inc. (NASDAQ: CAVM), offers a broad portfolio of integrated, software compatible processors ranging in performance from 1Gbps to 100Gbp that enable secure, intelligent functionality in Enterprise, Data Center, Broadband, 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, 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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