SAN JOSE, Calif., March 9, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Open
Compute US Summit 2016 – 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 support for the OpenSwitch open source
network operating system (NOS) on
Cavium XPliant switches. Additionally, Cavium
introduced Open APIs for the XPliant Programmable Switch (OpenXPS)
open source software.
OpenSwitch is an open source, community-led Linux-based network
operating system, launched by Hewlett Packard Enterprise and other
industry leaders in October 2015,
optimized for the scale and architecture requirements of modern
next-generation data center networks. It enables a developer
ecosystem with the ability to accelerate innovation and realize
investment protection, allowing IT organizations to rapidly build
data center networks customized for unique business
applications.
"Cavium's support of OpenSwitch is another example of expanding
the open source community effort," said George Tchaparian
CEO Edgecore Networks. "Cavium's OpenXPS support for
these open initiatives including OpenSwitch, SAI, and
ONL enables rich ecosystems of differentiated solutions,
including those open software options on the Cavium's XPliant based
Edgecore AS7500-32X switch, an open hardware design contributed to
the Open Compute Project (OCP)."
OpenXPS APIs map the XPliant Software Development Kit (XDK)
rich feature-set to an open software interface enabling integration
of custom applications on the extensible XPliant switch hardware
platforms. Users now have more freedom to select their
software control plane in disaggregation with the hardware,
boosting application innovation. OpenSwitch can now use OpenXPS
APIs to control the XPliant switch hardware platforms, leveraging a
high degree of extensibility.
"We are very pleased to see Cavium continuing to grow the
collaborative community with OpenXPS," said Mark Atwood, community director, OpenSwitch.
"The XPliant-based switching solutions expand the OpenSwitch
ecosystem and help address the rapidly evolving needs of the open
networking industry. Network switches based on OpenSwitch allow IT
staff better control of their infrastructure through
disaggregation, the freedom of avoiding vendor lock-in, faster time
to service and lower overall ownership costs compared to
traditional solutions."
"As we enter the age of the open API economy, Cavium is excited
to contribute OpenXPS API's to the community to further enable the
digital transformation," said Eric
Hayes, Vice President and General Manager of the Switching
Platform Group at Cavium. "The XPliant switching
architecture's flexibility is now easily exposed for developers to
meet the challenges of scaling up the next generation networking
mega platforms."
OpenSwitch NOS software running on the Edgecore AS7500-32X
switch powered by Cavium's XPliant switching silicon will be
demonstrated during the OCP U.S. Summit on March 9-10 and at
Open Networking Summit (ONS) on March
14-16.
Availability
OpenXPS is publicly available now
at https://github.com/XPliant/OpenXPS
The OpenSwitch Community is operating today.
Visit www.openswitch.net for more information about
OpenSwitch NOS, the developer releases and plugins available.
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.
XPliant® is a registered trademark of Cavium, Inc.
All other trademarks are the property of their respective
owners. All rights reserved. © Cavium, Inc. 2016
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