SAN JOSE, Calif., and
BARCELONA, Spain, March 1, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- 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 introduction of
a family of highly integrated single chip solutions that enable a
new category of Macrocells and Smart Radio Heads supporting a wide
range of deployment scenarios and setting a new bar for cost,
performance, power and footprint. The OCTEON Fusion-M family is a
scalable architecture that ranges from the single chip CNF75xx
macrocell to the single chip CNF74xx for use in Smart Radio
Heads.
Market Dynamics for Radio Networks and Cloud RAN
With
the ever increasing demand for data and more concentrated and
denser networks, operators are increasingly looking at ways to make
the RAN more efficient and more scalable, as part of a wider trend
towards virtualization of wireless networks through NFV and SDN
technologies. Analysts predict that the overall wireless network
infrastructure market encompassing macrocell RAN, HetNet, Small
Cells and Cloud RAN will witness tremendous growth of 45% CAGR over
the coming years, reaching $104
Billion in annual spending by the end of 2020.
Mobile networks' need to accommodate fast traffic growth, driven
by heavier usage oFf individual subscribers and by the spread of
wireless connectivity to new classes of IoT devices. The current
architecture of the macrocell BTS utilizes a combination of CPUs,
DSPs, FPGAs and ASICs which significantly add to the latency,
footprint, power consumption and cost. The macro BTS can benefit
from much higher silicon integration delivering higher performance
while slashing the cost and power for next generation systems.
Current Radio Heads perform a limited function of capturing and
transmitting the RF data to macro BTS or the Cloud RAN typically
over dedicated dark fiber that is not readily available in all
geographies. Radio Heads can benefit from integration of Layer 1
functionality to enable seamless virtualization of the upper layers
in a Cloud RAN deployment utilizing the existing switched fabric in
existence today. Future networks will continue to deploy macrocell
BTS augmented with Cloud RAN for additional scalability and
enterprise small cells for coverage and capacity.
New Category of Single Chip Macrocell and Smart Radio Heads:
Laying the foundation of Dense HetNets, Cloud RAN and 5G
standards
The OCTEON Fusion-M processors are single chip
solutions for macro BTS and Smart Radio Heads that target next
generation radio networks including 3GPP LTE Rel11/12. The key
features include highly optimized full custom processor cores, a
highly efficient caching subsystem, high memory bandwidth and a
very flexible and high performance PHY. Cavium has a long history
of delivering high-performance multi-core workload-optimized
processors for networking, security and data plane processing
applications through their highly successful OCTEON®, OCTEON
Fusion®, NITROX® and Neuron Search® processor families.
Introducing the OCTEON Fusion-M CNF75xx Family of
Processors
OCTEON Fusion-M CNF75xx:
Macrocell-on-a-chip
The CNF75xx family of processors
is a full L1-L7 implementation supporting from high capacity
picocells at 800 simultaneous users all the way up to multi sector
macrocells with up to 3600 simultaneous users. Additionally,
multiple OCTEON Fusion-M CNF75xx chips can be cascaded for even
denser deployments or higher order MIMO. The CNF 75xx integrates
highly optimized custom 64 bit MIPS cores and multiple VLIW DSP
engines along with a host of hardware accelerators for the wireless
modem pipeline, network processing and traffic shaping. This family
is designed to allow system OEMs and operators to build next
generation networks in both macrocell and Cloud RAN deployments
while retaining the flexibility to evolve into the new 5G
standard.
Feature Highlights:
- Highly integrated multi-protocol single chip 12 sector 24T24R
MIMO with up to 16 cores running up to 2.0 GHz core frequency
- Simultaneous LTE. LTE-A (FDD/TDD) , HPSA+, GSM operation
- Supports a range of user counts from 800 user picocell
configuration to 3,600 macrocell mode simultaneous active
users
- The first commercially available 3GPP LTE Rel 11 capable
(upgradable to Rel 12) SoC
- Highly configurable Wireless Baseband Module based on VLIW DSP
cores, comprehensive PHY hardware accelerators, custom XBAR and PHY
Shared memory
- Integrated I/O capacity including CPRI / JESD204B,10GE, SGMII,
SRIO v2.1, PCIe v3.0
- Very high performance, low latency path for passing COMP data
between multiple OCTEON Fusion-M devices
Introducing the OCTEON Fusion-M CNF74xx Family of
Processors
OCTEON Fusion-M CNF74xx:
Smart Remote Radio Head-on-a-chip
The CNF74xx
integrates eight 64 Bit MIPS cores and a very flexible, high
throughput L1 wireless modem sub-system, the OCTEON Fusion-M
CNF74xx is the first commercial device in the world designed
specifically for Smart Radio Head Cloud RAN deployments. The
architecture of the CNF74xx allows the implementation of any of the
popular CRAN splits, including MAC-PHY, RLC and CPRI. The CNF74xx
Smart Radio Head working in conjunction with standard Commercial
Off-The-Shelf (COTS), Cavium's ThunderX™ hardware provides a full
solution for all variants of Cloud RAN.
Feature Highlights:
- Highly integrated multi-protocol Smart Radio Head supporting 12
sector 24T24R MIMO with up to 8 cores running up to 2.0 GHz core
frequency
- Simultaneous LTE. LTE-A (FDD/TDD) , HPSA+, GSM operation
- Allows any Cloud RAN configuration, including various MAC-PHY
spits, RLC split and CPRI
- In combination with the ThunderX COTS sever processor supports
very high simultaneous active users in excess of 12,000
- The first commercially available 3GPP LTE Rel 11 capable
(upgradable to Rel 12) SoC
- Fully configurable Wireless Baseband Module based on VLIW DSP
cores, comprehensive PHY hardware accelerators, custom XBAR and PHY
shared memory
- Integrated I/O capacity including CPRI / JESD204B,10GE,SRIO
v2.1
- Very high performance, low latency path for passing COMP data
between multiple OCTEON Fusion-M devices
"Cavium is a proven Wireless Infrastructure supplier with
carrier-proven solutions ranging from small cells to Macro BTS to
EPC and Cloud RAN applications," said Syed
Ali, President and CEO of Cavium Inc. "Operators require a
portfolio of base stations that address their different needs:
enterprise, urban, metro-cell, macrocell and CRAN. With the OCTEON
FUSION-M and ThunderX, Cavium is unique in addressing all of those
segments through a coherent portfolio of highly optimized
solutions. Our new chips extend the eco-system in two radical
directions: up to macrocell class and out to the radio node
required in C-RANs."
"With the introduction of the OCTEON Fusion-M family, Cavium has
extended its presence in the wireless infrastructure market where
it already has deployments from the core to the RAN," said Jag
Bolaria Principal Analyst at The Linley Group. "The OCTEON Fusion-M
products enable more efficient macro base stations and advance an
exciting new category of Smart Radio Heads for Cloud RAN."
"Cavium has leveraged its multiple generations of world class IP
to engineer OCTEON Fusion-M, a highly integrated family of wireless
processors that provides a level of integration, performance and
power/user unequaled in the industry. The OCTEON Fusion-M family
are the most flexible processors for wireless communication and
designed to not only encompass existing 3GPP standards but also new
versions as they become ratified. They are ideally suited for
HetNet applications and 5G roll outs," said Raj Singh, General
Manager of Cavium's Wireless Broadband Group.
Availability
The OCTEON Fusion-M family of processors
along with a range of hardware reference platforms will sample in
Q3 2015.
About Cavium
Cavium 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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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
February 25, 2015. All
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