KFAR SAVA, Israel, Oct. 13, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Silicom
Ltd. (NASDAQ: SILC), a leading provider of networking and data
infrastructure solutions, today announced that a Tier 1 Mobile
Operator has selected Silicom's architecture for next-generation
Distribution Units, which supports both 4G and 5G deployments, for
use in field trials planned to take place during the next several
months.
The architecture selected is based on Silicom's Edge Units
designed originally for use in SD-WAN/NFV applications. Since the
original design was modular, Silicom was able to customize the
solution quickly for use in the mobile network DU and to rapidly
integrate Silicom's 4G/5G Smart Cards into it.
The cards integrated into the solution include Silicom's vRAN
(Virtual Radio Access Network) Dedicated Accelerator card, which
was developed in cooperation with Intel around Intel's recently
announced ACC100 eASIC, and Silicom's Time Synchronization card,
which is currently in the late stages of development. Before the
field trials begin, the full Silicom solution will be integrated
with a top-tier 4G/5G software solution in a process directed by
one of the world's leading 4G/5G software vendors.
"We are excited to be selected by such an important Tier 1
operator, a leading player in the booming 4G/5G mobile
infrastructure market, together with one of this market's most
important software vendors," commented Shaike Orbach, CEO of Silicom. "It demonstrates
the differentiating advantages of our integrated solution – a true
'whole-is-greater-than-the-sum-of-its-parts' offering that combines
the strengths of all our best-of-breed technologies. If the
solution proves itself and mass deployment begins in accordance
with the customer's indications, we believe the business potential
could be tens of millions of dollars for us from this customer
alone."
Mr. Orbach continued, "Furthermore, the dialog developing
between Silicom and the customer demonstrates the high synergy
between all of Silicom's technologies. Even as we plan the field
trials for this solution, we are engaged in discussions with the
customer about a next-generation acceleration solution based on our
FPGA technology. In addition, we have begun discussing our
solutions for SD-WAN use cases."
Mr. Orbach concluded, "We believe that our unique ability to
offer comprehensive solutions for huge 4G/5G infrastructure
projects together with a full range of synergistic and
complementary product lines positions us ideally to address massive
emerging opportunities. In a positive upward spiral, each success
further strengthens our positioning and differentiating experience,
leading to the next and next success. As such, we believe the 4G/5G
marketplace and telco demand, including many aspects of the planned
deployment from the edge towards the core and the Telco Cloud,
represents a potentially endless future growth driver for
Silicom."
About Silicom
Silicom Ltd. is an industry-leading provider of high-performance
networking and data infrastructure solutions. Designed primarily to
improve performance and efficiency in Cloud and Data Center
environments, Silicom's solutions increase throughput, decrease
latency and boost the performance of servers and networking
appliances, the infrastructure backbone that enables advanced Cloud
architectures and leading technologies like NFV, SD-WAN and Cyber
Security. Our innovative solutions for high-density networking,
high-speed fabric switching, offloading and acceleration, which
utilize a range of cutting-edge silicon technologies as well as
FPGA-based solutions, are ideal for scaling-up and scaling-out
cloud infrastructures.
Silicom products are used by major Cloud players, service
providers, telcos and OEMs as components of their infrastructure
offerings, including both add-on adapters in the Data Center and
stand-alone virtualized/universal CPE devices at the edge.
Silicom's long-term, trusted relationships with more than 170
customers throughout the world, its more than 400 active Design
Wins and more than 300 product SKUs have made Silicom a "go-to"
connectivity/performance partner of choice for technology leaders
around the globe.
For more information, please visit: www.silicom.co.il
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are forward-looking statements which involve known and unknown
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control, which may cause actual results, performance, or
achievements of the company to be materially different from the
results, performance, or other expectations implied by these
forward-looking statements. These factors include, but are not
limited to, Silicom's increasing dependence for substantial revenue
growth on a limited number of customers in the evolving
cloud-based, SD-WAN, NFV and Edge markets, the speed and extent to
which solutions are adopted by these markets, likelihood that
Silicom will rely increasingly on customers which provide solutions
in these evolving markets, resulting in an increasing dependence on
a smaller number of larger customers, difficulty in commercializing
and marketing of Silicom's products and services, maintaining and
protecting brand recognition, protection of intellectual property,
competition, disruptions to our manufacturing and development along
with general disruptions to the entire world economy relating to
the spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) and other factors
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the company that it will achieve such forward-looking statements.
The company disclaims any duty to update such statements, whether
as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise.
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Contact:
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CFO
Silicom
Ltd.
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