SAN JOSE, Calif., March 10, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Open
Compute US Summit 2015 – Cavium, Inc., (NASDAQ: CAVM), a
leading provider of semiconductor products that enable intelligent
processing for enterprise, data center, wired and wireless
networking today announced its commitment to driving an open
ecosystem for data center switching. Qualification of
hardware platforms as well as standardization of software
interfaces enables both OEM and 3rd party innovation
ushering in a new era in open Ethernet switching.
The Open Compute Project (OCP) was created with the goal of
developing the most efficient data center designs for scalable
solutions, by openly sharing ideas, specifications and other
intellectual property. A growing number of established networking
vendors are adopting OCP, contributing their own intellectual
property. Cavium's XPliant team is working with both hardware and
software vendors to submit OCP designs. This combination enables
XPliant Packet Architecture™ (XPA)-powered switches to be the most
flexible and open customer friendly architecture in the market.
The Open Network Install Environment (ONIE) is an OCP open
source initiative that enables the decoupling of Ethernet switch
hardware from networking software. Using a switch supplied with
ONIE, the customer can freely add the software of their choice. The
OCP specification has also defined an open API, Switch Abstraction
Interface (SAI) that enables networking software to be written
independent of the switch silicon used. This allows customers and
systems developers to write their software and independently pick
the best switch to support it. XPliant switch SDK (software
development kit) has full support of ONIE and has incorporated SAI.
This enables customers to migrate from legacy switch architectures
and easily adopt XPliant-powered switching solutions.
Cavium's XPliant Ethernet switch silicon combines the highest
level of flexibility and performance which is unprecedented in
the networking industry. The XPliant CNX880xx family of Ethernet
switches provides an unparalleled flexibility in protocol
processing without compromising throughput. Combining the new
XPliant switch silicon with the emerging hardware and software open
ecosystem will now enable true software defined networking
(SDN).
The XPliant Packet Architecture (XPA) allows programming of
every element of switch packet processing increasing feature
velocity and rapid deployment of differentiating features. The
XPliant switch features include:
- 3.2 Tbps 32x100G Ethernet switch
- Support of 25G Ethernet Consortium
- XPliant Packet Architecture (XPA) – Enables longer switch
life-cycles and avoids fork-lift upgrades
- One box, multiple products – single XPliant hardware switch
optimized for multiple places in network via custom software
"Customers building cloud infrastructures are increasingly
turning to open network solutions which are optimized for web-scale
applications," said George
Tchaparian, CEO at Edge-Core Networks and GM of Data Center
Networks at Accton Technology. "Accton is developing 100GbE
data center switches based on Cavium XPliant Ethernet Switch
silicon, which Edge-Core will deliver to data center, telecom and
enterprise customers who require the increased capacity,
performance and flexibility which XPliant silicon enables."
"Cavium is a valued partner for Inventec and our collaboration
will expand our software defined networking solutions and deliver
the open networking platforms to our customers," said Daphne Chen, Director of Network Infrastructure
Design Center at Inventec Corporation. "The flexibility powered by
their XPA architecture of XPliant Ethernet switch enables the
innovation to meet the demands and complexities imposed by the
rapidly evolving data center environment."
Cavium is committed to providing open switch networking
solutions, enabling the industry to easily migrate from legacy
architectures to new efficient solutions for software defined data
centers. Attendees at the Open Compute Project US Summit can visit
Cavium in booth C12 and Accton in booth D22.
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.
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quality and performance of our products and the Xpliant products;
whether we are successful in marketing our products and the Xpliant
products; development of new products and technologies; the rate at
which our new products and Xpliant's new products are adopted; rate
of new design wins; product developments by our competitors;
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information about these and other risks that may impact Cavium's
business are set forth in the "Risk Factors" section of our Form
10-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on
March 2, 2015. All forward-looking
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