SAN JOSE, Calif., Jan. 16, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Cavium, Inc.
(NASDAQ: CAVM), a leading provider of products that enable
intelligent processing for enterprise and cloud data centers, today
announced that Cavium's XPliant CNX880xx family of Ethernet
switches received the Linley Group's Analyst Choice Award for the
"Best Networking Chip" in 2016.
"We selected Cavium's XPliant Ethernet switch as our winner due
to its customer programmability, which enables customers to
differentiate their products through unique features and also
enables in-field upgradability," said Bob
Wheeler, principal analyst, the Linley Group.
"Cavium is very honored to receive this Analyst Choice Award
from the Linley Group for the XPliant Ethernet Switch," said
Eric Hayes, VP/GM Switch Platform
Group at Cavium. "To be formally recognized for getting the
world's first customer programmable hyper scale data center
switching solution into production, including the software tools
that enable developers to seamlessly create unique value added
features and perform in field upgrades is a testament to the Cavium
team's ability to aggressively innovate and execute."
Cavium's XPliant Ethernet switch family is the first to deliver
a high throughput programmable ASIC that is shipping today in
production. Multiple major OEMs including Arista and Brocade have
announced Ethernet switching systems built from this XPliant
silicon. These customers have leveraged the XPliant flexible
programmability to create their own custom pipelines delivering
multiple innovations, including but not limited to, scalable table
lookups, visibility and telemetry.
In addition to programmability, the XPliant
family of Ethernet switches offers a fully centralized shared
packet buffer architecture to absorb large bursts. It supports
dynamic port configuration and mixed mode port speeds from 1G, 10G,
25G, 40G, 50G and 100G. It also supports both 25GE Consortium and
IEEE 802.3by specification and provides connectivity solutions for
embedded applications.
The Linley Group Analysts' Choice Awards recognize the top
semiconductor products of 2016 in seven categories: embedded
processors, mobile processors, server processors, processor-IP
cores, mobile chips, networking chips, and best technology. To
choose each winner, The Linley Group's team of technology analysts
focus on the merits of the leading products that entered production
(or, in the case of IP, released to RTL) during 2016. They
evaluate the combined advantages in power, performance, features,
and cost of each device for their target end application and
market.
About The Linley Group
The Linley Group is the
industry's leading source for independent technology analysis of
semiconductors for networking, communications, mobile, and
data-center applications. The company provides strategic consulting
services, in-depth analytical reports, and conferences focused on
advanced technologies for chip and system design. The Linley Group
also publishes the weekly Microprocessor Report, Networking Report,
and Mobile Chip Report. For insights on recent industry news,
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Watch.
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.
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