SAN JOSE, Calif., June 10, 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 addition of two
new pin-compatible families CN73XX and CN72XX to its leading
OCTEON® III MIPS64® multi-core processor
line, providing a powerful solution for mid-range performance
points spanning 4 to 16 cores. These new low-power processor
families deliver industry-leading compute and packet performance
for devices in this class, along with powerful networking,
virtualization and multi-layer security acceleration, while meeting
the stringent power requirements of compact and resilient
networking and security appliances, storage appliances, wireless
infrastructure, switches, and integrated routers. These two product
families fill out the mid-range of the OCTEON III family between
the 1 to 4-core CN70/71XX and 24 to 48-core CN78XX.
Global mobile data traffic will increase nearly 11-fold between
2013 and 2018 (61% CAGR), while cloud data center IP traffic will
more than double between 2014 and 2017 (30% CAGR) according to
Cisco's Visual Networking Index and Global Cloud Index. As a
result, the demands on network scalability, programmability,
performance and manageability have dramatically
increased. Mainstream Enterprise Networking applications are
being challenged to deliver multi-fold increases in throughput per
dollar while enabling new protocols and powerful virtualization
features across the compute and storage networks.
The emerging applications in Software Defined Networking (SDN)
and Network Function Virtualization (NFV) are driving networks to
become application centric, with intelligence to dynamically launch
applications and provide on-demand consumption of connectivity and
bandwidth without impacting the reliability and SLA requirements of
enterprises and service providers. Software-only solutions do not
deliver the performance, low-latency, and determinism needed to
meet these goals. A new class of hardware accelerated solutions is
required to deliver high control and data plane performance with
integrated L3-L7 security, including firewall, Deep Packet
Inspection, Intrusion Prevention and Application recognition.
Cavium's new OCTEON III CN73XX and CN72XX family SoCs pack up to
16 cores that deliver up to 35GHz of compute, 40Gbps of application
performance and 120Gbps of networking connectivity in a low-power
envelope and compact footprint to address these requirements,
providing an ideal solution for fully integrated control, data
plane, and services processing on a single SoC. A 4th
generation powerful and flexible new packet parsing capabilities
are integrated that can process both existing and emerging
protocols such as MPLS, NVGRE, and VxLAN at line rate, along with
sophisticated traffic management capabilities that provide the fine
grained traffic shaping and QoS required for application-centric
networks.
The integrated hardware accelerated security processing
capabilities are turbo charged with support for a range of new
crypto algorithms including the latest SHA3 and enable 40Gbps IPSec
using a single chip, to efficiently secure high-throughput
enterprise, datacenter, and wireless backhaul connections. Cavium's
latest Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) is able to scan millions of
flows and patterns in real-time to enable enterprises and service
providers to provide robust protection against security threats
while delivering intelligent application-based services.
Cavium provides a rich set of software tools, libraries and
application software including a comprehensive carrier grade SDK,
and optimized software toolkits including TCP/SSL/IPsec. The
entire OCTEON line of products is supported by Cavium's broad PACE
ecosystem enabling a range of software, hardware, and ODM solutions
to speed time-to-market.
Family Highlights:
- Best in class compute performance in a compact 37.5mm
form-factor
- From four to 16 cores at up to 2.2GHz
- Single (CN72XX) or Dual (CN73XX) 72-bit DDR3/4 controllers
- Ultra-high networking and security performance
- 40Gbps of Application Processing
- 22 SERDES supporting 1G/10G/40GbE, PCIe v3, SATA 3.0
- Extremely-low power consumption with configurations starting as
low as 8W
- Powerful application acceleration for security, DPI,
compression, packet processing
- Fully software compatible with entire OCTEON III processor line
enabling scalable solutions spanning 1 to 48 cores
Availability: General availability in July 2015. For more information, contact Cavium
Sales at sales@cavium.com
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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