SAN JOSE, Calif., June 16, 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 demonstration of
the OpenFlow and OpenFlow-Hybrid XPliant®-based
platforms for Software-Defined Networking (SDN) at Open Networking
Summit (ONS) 2015. Cavium's XPliant Ethernet switches deliver
full line rate support in OpenFlow through XPliant's SDK APIs and
integration of Open vSwitch (OVS).
OpenFlow and OVS are designed to enable massive network
automation in a multi-vendor standards-based environment. OpenFlow
is the industry leading standard protocol to separate the control
and the data plane of SDN architecture. While this protocol
provides an ideal scenario for networking operators, the XPliant
Ethernet switches are able to demonstrate these capabilities at 3.2
terabits per second in a completely flexible manner.
Existing silicon switch solutions map OpenFlow constructs to
fixed pipelines and tables intended for historical switching
protocols. These solutions do not provide the flexibility that
network operators require in order to effectively control and
automate their networks. In addition, these architectures leverage
shallow TCAM resources that do not provide the desired level of
scalability.
Cavium's XPliant Ethernet switch silicon combines the highest
level of flexibility and performance in the networking industry.
The revolutionary XPA architecture incorporates programmable tables
as well as flexible lookups and editing of packets with high
throughput. These architectural features enable native support of
extremely flexible OpenFlow defined switching implementations, for
high performance SDN applications at mega scale.
"Historically, large scale data center customers were only
interested in the speeds and feeds of networking silicon. Now
customers are looking for standards based vendor interoperable
features that enable them to effectively control their networks,
scale and grow over time," said Eric
Hayes, VP/GM, Switch Platform Group at Cavium. "The XPA
architecture is the ideal solution available today with all of
these capabilities simultaneously in a cost effective manner."
The advantages of Cavium's XPliant packet architecture are not
limited to extensive OpenFlow support. XPA Software APIs expose the
OVS control abstractions, enabling users to benefit from OVS rich
management and networking features, such as L2 pipeline (VLANs,
LAGs, FDB, STP etc.), bonding modes (LACP), and advanced tunneling
protocols (Geneve, VxLAN, NVGRE)
as well as future yet-to-be-defined standards. Now, through XPA
Software and APIs, these open and industry proven features can be
seamlessly invoked representing a truly hybrid switch optimized for
virtualized environments, in a single hardware.
Combining the XPliant flexible programmable switch silicon with
the emerging leading software open ecosystem opens the door to
modern networking deployments of SDN applications to achieve high
performance and scale.
The XPliant software is available to Cavium customers now, and
is shipped as source code. It supports OpenFlow versions 1.3 and
beyond. The OVS version supported is 2.3.1.
Cavium will demonstrate the OpenFlow integration on the
XPliant-based platform at ONS at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Cavium's
booth 118 from June 16-18. To
schedule a meeting with Cavium, please contact your local sales
account manager or Lilly Ly
(lly@cavium.com). Please enter Meeting Request at ONS 2015
in the subject line.
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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