SANTA CLARA, Calif.,
June 19, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Open
Networking Summits, Inc. (ONS) represents the industry's premier
and only non-profit conference that brings together the entire
networking ecosystem to discuss advances in software-defined
networking (SDN), OpenFlow, and network functions virtualization
(NFV) to accelerate adoption and shape the future of the networking
industry.
Open Networking Summit 2015, today announced Cavium's XPliant®
Switch as the winner of SDN Idol 2015, the industry's top award for
the year's hottest SDN solutions.
SDN Idol is a fun, friendly award competition that showcases
disruptive SDN technologies, products or use cases from exhibitors
at the annual Open Networking Summit. The top four SDN Idol
submissions are selected by an esteemed panel of judges and the
winner is chosen following live demonstrations and a live voting
process by an audience that boasts SDN practitioners and
enthusiasts across end-user, vendors, investors, academia, media
and analysts.
The Judges for SDN Idol 2015 were:
Geng Lin, CTO of Corporate Networks,
Google
Jim Smith, General Partner, Mohr
Davidow Ventures
Tom Anschutz, Distinguished Member
of Technical Staff, AT&T
Zeus Kerravala, Founder &
Principal Analyst, ZK Research
The four finalists for SDN Idol 2015 were:
Cavium, XPliant Switch
Huawei, 2015 SDN IDOL – DN-based IP & Optical Synergy
NEC, SDN Cyber Attack Auto Protection
Pluribus Networks, Integrated Network Analytics
The top four finalists were chosen by a panel of industry
experts and judged on the following criteria: business value,
technology value, differentiation against competition, advancement
of overall SDN, and live demo performance.
ONS attendees then voted to select Cavium's XPliant switch as
winner of SDN Idol 2015. The SDN Idol Award was presented to Cavium
on June 18th, during the
Open Networking Summit 2015. The conference attracted over 1,200
attendees from around the world and had participation from over 70
organizations in the Exhibit Hall.
Cavium, Inc. (NASDAQ: CAVM), a leading provider of semiconductor
products that enable intelligent processing for enterprise, data
center, cloud, wired and wireless networking announced the
demonstration of the OpenFlow and OpenFlow-Hybrid XPliant®-based
platforms for Software-Defined Networking (SDN) at ONS 2015.
Cavium's XPliant Ethernet switches deliver high-speed support in
OpenFlow through XPliant's SDK APIs and integration of Open vSwitch
(OVS).
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, unprecedented 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.
"Software Defined Networking is now migrating from a discussion
to actual implementation in the real world," said Eric Hayes, VP/GM, Switch Platform Group at
Cavium, "The XPliant protocol independent programmable switch
silicon is providing a platform for innovation to further this
reality."
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.
"This year's SDN Idol was very competitive and every participant
presented the most innovative SDN technologies ONS has ever seen.
We are very pleased to announce Cavium as the reigning SDN Idol
2015 and this accomplishment exemplifies how data planes take
Openflow and SDN to the next level of customization and
programmability," said Vaibhav
Parulkar, program manager of ONS2015. "It will be very
interesting to see the scale of live SDN and NFV deployments over
the course of 2015, the emerging use cases and the variety of new
business models that these solutions will enable. This industry is
innovating so rapidly that it's hard to imagine what disruptive
solutions will be demoed at SDN Idol 2016 and we look forward to
seeing what next year will bring."
About Cavium, Inc.
Cavium, Inc. (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 ONS, Inc.
Created by the founders of software defined networking (SDN), Open
Networking Summits Inc., a non-profit organization delivers events
designed to foster an open, productive dialogue around the
opportunities, challenges and key developments in the quickly
evolving world of OpenFlow, SDN and network function virtualization
(NFV). For the past four years, the industry's premiere event –
Open Networking Summit (ONS) – has brought the networking ecosystem
of end-users, engineers, business leaders and researchers together
in Silicon Valley to discuss the possibilities and shape the future
of the networking industry. In addition to the annual summit, ONS
offers other events to match the increasing pace of innovation in
SDN/NFV/OpenFlow. These include the monthly ONS Inspire! Webinar
Series, the ONS Accelerate! User-Led Workshop on SDN/NFV Adoption.
More information on the Open Networking Summit and upcoming events
can be found at http://www.OpenNetSummit.org
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