BARCELONA, Spain, March 1, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Mobile
World Congress – Cavium, Inc., (NASDAQ: CAVM), a leading
provider of semiconductor products that enable intelligent
processing for enterprise, data center, wired and wireless
networking, will demonstrate its single-chip OCTEON III processor
running a full IPsec security application at 100Gbps throughput,
necessary for next generation LTE-A and 5G networks using standard
OpenDataPlane (ODP) software API's at Mobile World Congress
2015.
Secure transport throughput requirements in wireless networks
are growing exponentially, creating the need for much higher
performance processors with advanced security acceleration in
next-generation equipment. The Cavium OCTEON III 48-core
64-bit CN78xx processor is ideally suited for use in 4G/LTE Evolved
Packet Core (EPC) equipment including Mobility Management Entity
(MME), Serving Gateways (SGW) and Packet Data Network Gateways
(PGW), providing a 2.5X increase over previously-available
performance levels and offering close to bare-metal silicon
performance while utilizing standard software API's. OpenDataPlane
applications are supported across Cavium's multi-core processor
product lines including OCTEON and ThunderX™.
Cavium has worked closely with Linaro to support the new
OpenDataPlane initiative and has expanded support to the new OCTEON
III processor line as well as the ThunderX family of processors.
The OCTEON III CN78XX family of multi-core MIPS64 processors builds
on the award-winning OCTEON family, with up to 48 next generation
cnMIPS64 cores, a wide range of I/O, higher application
acceleration for networking, security and storage, larger caches,
high speed interfaces such as DDR4 and PCIe Gen3, and multi-chip
coherent connectivity using Cavium Coherent Processor Interconnect
(CCPI) for enabling high performance applications.
Cavium has been a Linaro member since 2012 when it joined the
Linaro Enterprise Group (LEG). Cavium expanded its Linaro
membership in 2013 when it joined the Linaro Networking Group
(LNG). Cavium's engineers are active contributors to multiple
Linaro projects and Cavium has representation on the Technical
Steering Committee for both LEG and LNG.
"OpenDataPlane will allow Cavium customers to run their
dataplane applications on a wide range of our processors", said
Raghib Hussain, Corporate VP/GM and
CTO. "The ability to write applications once and then use them on
many different processors and architectures is very appealing and
since it is backed by a true open standards body, customers will
not be locked into legacy architectures."
OpenDataplane.org
The OpenDataPlane project is an
open-source, cross-platform set of application programming
interfaces (APIs) for the networking data plane. ODP embraces and
extends existing proprietary, optimized vendor-specific hardware
blocks and software libraries to provide interoperability with
minimal overhead. Initially defined by members of the Linaro
Networking Group (LNG), this project is open to contributions from
all individuals and companies who share an interest in promoting a
standard set of APIs to be used across the full range of network
processor architectures available.
Linaro
Linaro is a not-for-profit engineering
organization with over 180 engineers working on consolidating and
optimizing open source software for the ARM architecture, including
developer tools, the Linux kernel, ARM power management, and other
software infrastructure. Linaro is distribution neutral: it wants
to provide the best software foundations to everyone, and to reduce
non-differentiating and costly low level fragmentation.
To ensure commercial grade software, Linaro executes
comprehensive test and validation on member hardware platforms. The
full scope of Linaro's engineering work is open to all online. To
find out more, please visit http://www.linaro.org.
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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