SAN JOSE, Calif., Dec. 8, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Cavium,
Inc. (NASDAQ: CAVM), a leading provider of semiconductor products
that enable intelligent processing for Enterprise, Telco, MSP and
cloud data centers, announced an agreement with China Unicom to
accelerate the design and development of Virtualized BBU and
provide a path for 5G adoption. The collaboration will focus on
commercializing vBBU systems using general purpose hardware based
on Cavium's ThunderX® workload optimized data server processors
which are built on ARM architecture. In addition, Cavium has joined
the China Unicom CORD Industry Alliance and will drive adoption of
open source architecture and technologies in China together with China Unicom.
China Unicom and Cavium will work together on new innovative
fronthaul solutions, system architecture and vBBU performance and
deployment. This collaboration allows Cavium to align with China
Unicom's commercial networks technology development and innovation,
research feasibility of Next Generation Virtualized Wireless Access
Network, perform lab and field testing, evaluate results, drive
deployment of developed technologies into commercial network, carry
out lab and field performance test and assessment, accelerate pilot
and application of new technical innovations in real-world
networks.
"We are very pleased to collaborate with China Unicom in this
critical area. As network capacity continues to be stretched and
the user demands continue to grow the industry is faced with
significant challenges which cannot be solved by traditional
means," said Raj Singh General Manager of the Wireless Broadband
Group at Cavium. "The use of advanced general purpose hardware such
as Cavium's ThunderX workload optimized data severs allows us to
provide a highly scalable virtualized solution for these
requirements."
"Virtualized network based on general purpose hardware and open
source technologies represents the overall direction for future
network changes. China Unicom partners with Cavium, a leader in
virtualized BBU technology field, to drive R&D of
virtualization products based on general purpose processors, thus
laying a solid foundation for building new generation of network
infrastructure," said Dr. Tang Xiongyan, CTO of Network Technology
Research Institute, China Unicom.
About Cavium
Cavium, Inc. (NASDAQ: CAVM), offers a broad portfolio of
integrated, software compatible processors ranging in performance
from 1Gbps to 100Gbps that enable secure, intelligent functionality
in Enterprise, Data Center, Broadband/Consumer, Mobile and Service
Provider Equipment, highly programmable switches which scale to
3.2Tbps and Ethernet and Fibre Channel adapters up to 100Gbps.
Cavium processors are supported by ecosystem partners that provide
operating systems, tools and application support, hardware
reference designs and other products. Cavium is headquartered in
San Jose, CA with design centers
in California, Massachusetts, India, China
and Taiwan. For more information,
please visit: http://www.cavium.com.
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