SAN JOSE, Calif., May 2, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Cavium, Inc.
(NASDAQ: CAVM), a leading provider of products that enable secure
and intelligent processing for enterprise, data center, cloud,
wired and wireless networking, today unveiled OCTEON TX, a complete
line of 64-bit ARM based SOCs for control plane and data plane
applications in networking, security, and storage. This new product
line is composed of 4 product families - CN80XX, CN81XX, CN82XX and
CN83XX with 1 to 24 full custom, enhanced 64-bit ARM v8.1 cores,
providing the industry's broadest range of highly integrated 64-bit
ARM SOC products for a wide variety of embedded processing
applications. The OCTEON TX expands the addressability of Cavium's
embedded products into control plane application areas within
enterprise, service provider, data center networking and storage
that need support of extensive software ecosystem and
virtualization features. This product line is also optimized to run
multiple concurrent data and control planes simultaneously for
security and router appliances, NFV and SDN infrastructure, service
provider CPE, wireless transport, NAS, storage controllers, IOT
gateways, printer and industrial applications.
Market Dynamics
The networks of the future are striving to become more open and
application centric to enable service expansion and increase
monetization. In this open network, the control plane needs to run
commercial software distributions and operating systems (e.g.,
RHEL, Canonical and Java SE), support open source applications
(e.g., OpenStack, OpenFlow and Quagga), launch services dynamically
and run customer specific services. The data plane is also
challenged to support concurrent coexistence of multiple types of
high performance data plane applications for firewall, content
delivery, routing, and traffic management. The bandwidth demanded
for these data planes in networks is also exploding driven by
multimedia 4K content and applications, exabytes of storage
mirrored across Cloud and Enterprise, real time data acquisition,
and rapid growth of connected devices in the IOT world. The threats
inside these open networks of cloud and enterprise are becoming
increasingly sophisticated and vulnerabilities are becoming more
exposed with the connectivity of millions of unsecured IOT
devices.
The OCTEON SOC architecture already has established market
leadership in data plane application performance and efficiency.
While current OCTEON SOCs are used in applications for data plane
as well as control plane with embedded software, control plane
applications requiring wider software ecosystem and support
traditionally have been addressed by the x86 architecture. The
open, service centric networks need lower-cost alternatives for
control plane, and superior ecosystem and networking performance
for data plane. The ARM architecture is able to service these
critical needs.
The OCTEON TX ARM 64-bit SOC family of processors combine the
best in class data plane performance of the OCTEON® SOC family, and
the rich software ecosystem and virtualization features, extended
support of open source applications and highly optimized custom
ARMv8.1 CPU cores of the ThunderX® family. It also integrates
Cavium's flagship security architecture from the NITROX® V security
processor family. With this unique combination of performance,
features and interfaces, the OCTEON TX provides an excellent
solution for service centric networks and addresses additional
application areas in the embedded processor market. The OCTEON TX
offers a software compatible, scalable product family to meet the
wide range of price, power and performance requirements of various
end markets such as virtual CPE, wireless transport, NAS, storage
appliances and controllers, IOT gateways, industrial control, SMB
routers, security appliances, data center accelerators, data center
appliances and various control plane applications.
Feature Highlights
- Enhanced ThunderX (TX) ARM64 bit cores based on the latest ARM
v8.1 ISA, with up to 2.2 GHz core frequency and 78K of I-Cache and
32K of D-Cache
- CN80XX, CN81XX: From 1 to 4 cores, up to 2MB of Last Level
Cache, 1x32b/64b DDR4 with ECC.
- CN82XX, CN83XX: From 8 to 24 cores, up to 8MB of Last Level
Cache, up to 2x64b DDR4 with ECC
- Simultaneous support of bulk and RSA crypto, from 400Mbps to
40Gbps of IPSEC performance and 600 to 20K RSA Ops/sec for 2048 bit
keys.
- Latest security features – Supports a wide variety of protocols
including IPsec, SSL, TLS 1.x, DTLS and ECC Suite B. Also supports
a wide variety of algorithms including several variants of AES,
3DES, SHA-2, SHA-3, RSA 2048, RSA 4096, RSA 8192, ECC
p256/p384/p521, Kasumi, ZUC and SNOW 3G.
- From 500Mbps to 50Gbps of Layer 3 forwarding
- Up to 2x 32/64-bit DDR3/DDR4 controllers with ECC, with up to
2400MTS
- Integrated Compression Engines with up to 40Gbps
- High bandwidth IO: Integrates up to - 12 10Gb/1GbE, 3 40GbE, 4
PCI-Express Gen3, 6 SATA 3.0
- Latest ARMv8.1 and SMMU v2 for data center class full-SOC
virtualization support
- Low Power to meet the strict thermal profiles of fanless
designs, off-load cards and outdoor industrial grade form
factors
Supporting Industry Quotes
"Cavium's OCTEON product line has achieved broad success
across a wide range of multicore networking applications due to its
highly scalable and accelerated SOC architecture. With OCTEON
TX, Cavium is combining its data plane architecture with its
optimized ARMv8.1 cores to target a new range of open and
virtualized applications for services-centric networks," said
Linley Gwennap, principal analyst at
the Linley Group.
"Cavium has delivered breakthrough performance for data plane
and security applications with its multi-core OCTEON SOCs," said
Steve Klinger, General Manager,
Infrastructure Processor Group at Cavium. "The wide range of
products in the OCTEON TX ARM 64-bit product line builds upon this
success and expands the use of these products into control and
embedded processing applications that leverage the fast growing ARM
ecosystem and breadth of open source initiatives."
Availability
The 1 to 4 core CN80XX and CN81XX product
families will be sampling in Q2 of 2016, and the 8 to 24 core
CN82XX and CN83XX will be sampling in Q3 of 2016.
About Cavium
Cavium 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 & 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 offices are in San Jose,
California with design team locations in California, Massachusetts, India, and China. For more information, please visit:
http://www.cavium.com
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that may impact Cavium's business are set forth in the "Risk
Factors" section of our Form 10-Q filed with the Securities and
Exchange Commission on April 29,
2016. All forward-looking statements in this press release
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