SAN JOSE,
Calif., June 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 announces that Xirrus, Inc., a
leading provider of high-performance wireless networks, has
selected the Cavium OCTEON III processor family to power its
next-generation 802.11ac Wave 2 high-performance single and
multi-radio wireless platforms.
In order to deliver a superior quality of experience
(QoE) in high-density enterprise, hospitality, and other dense
campus environments, Xirrus next-generation 802.11ac Wave 2 WLAN
access points require a powerful processing solution with unique
processing engines and programmability to implement complex
provisioning, scheduling and application control features. These
access points need to serve a large number of users in a thermally
challenging environment with minimal airflow. Powered by the OCTEON
III CN70XX/71XX low-power processor with up to four
high-performance, power-optimized 64-bit processing cores, these
access points will have the performance required to provide not
only the 802.11ac Wave 2 multi-gigabit data rate, but also higher
per-user data throughput enabled by multi-user MIMO (MU-MIMO)
technology, while remaining in a very low-power envelope. In
addition, the advanced hardware-acceleration for security and L3-L7
processing in CN70XX/71XX enables these access points to provide a
high level of intelligence at the edge of Wi-Fi networks by
integrating the controller function and application-level
visibility into each access point, thus eliminating a single point
of failure and the potential performance bottlenecks of a
centralized controller. The rich I/O configuration on CN70XX/71XX
also provides a high degree of flexibility for high-throughput
1G/2.5G/5G/10G Ethernet backhaul.
"The continuous innovation from Cavium helps us
deliver revolutionary high-performance Wi-Fi solutions," said
Patrick Parker, chief development
officer and founder, Xirrus Wi-Fi. "The CN70XX/71XX processor
families provide Xirrus with a highly scalable multicore processor
platform required to deliver extremely complex, compute intensive
applications at the network edge, while delivering high throughput
Wi-Fi speeds."
"The CN70XX/71XX was built from the ground-up to
meet the stringent performance, power, application awareness and
security requirements for Wave 2 WLAN access points. It delivers
10Gbps processing capability in a power envelope starting at 3.0W,"
said Venkat Sundaresan, Director of
Product Line Marketing, Infrastructure Processor Group, Cavium,
Inc. "We are very pleased to work with Xirrus and help them deliver
their disruptive distributed-intelligence architecture for a new
generation of Wi-Fi networks."
The OCTEON III CN70XX/CN71XX families of Multi-Core
cnMIPS64 Processors target SMB and entry-level enterprise platforms
for networking, security, storage and control plane applications.
The families integrate single to quad cnMIPS64 v3 cores with
virtualization capabilities and hypervisor support. The
highly-integrated SoCs also include a rich set of I/O's and
Cavium's advanced hardware acceleration for deep packet inspection
(DPI). The CN70XX/CN71XX families deliver the most optimized
solution for power, performance, and price in next-generation
applications.
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.
About Xirrus, Inc.
Xirrus is the leading provider of high-performance
wireless networks. Xirrus solutions perform under the most
demanding circumstances, offering consistent "wired-like"
performance with superior coverage and security. The Xirrus suite
of WI-FI optimized solutions — Arrays, access points, cloud
services, and wired switches — provide seamless connectivity and
unified management across the network. Xirrus provides a vital
strategic business and IT infrastructure advantage to industries
that depend on wireless to operate business-critical applications.
With tens of thousands of customer solutions deployed globally,
Xirrus maintains operations and partnerships across the globe.
Xirrus is a privately held company and is headquartered in
Thousand Oaks, CA. For more
information please visit: www.xirrus.com and follow us on
Twitter: @Xirrus.
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