SAN JOSE, Calif., Jan. 24, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Cavium, Inc.
(NASDAQ: CAVM) a leading provider of semiconductor products that
provides intelligent processing for enterprise, data center, cloud,
wired and wireless networking, today announced that it will
contribute its Wedge 100C switch hardware design, based on the
production ready, field deployed, XPliant® Programmable ASIC, to
the Open Compute Project (OCP) Foundation.
The programmable Wedge 100C is an open switch platform, focused
on Top of Rack deployments with 10G/25G/40G/50G/100G server
connectivity and 100GbE uplinks to the aggregation layer of the
network. The programmable Wedge 100C design uses Cavium XPliant
CNX88091, programmable production-ready Ethernet switch and is
based on the original OCP-ACCEPTED™ Wedge 100 switch specification
and designs which were contributed by Facebook in October 2016.
The contributed network switch can be managed by a variety of
Network Operation Systems (NOS), including the Facebook Open
Switching System ("FBOSS") software stack.
Cavium's XPliant Family of Ethernet Switches uniquely
address the needs of today's highly dynamic datacenter networks by
enabling developers to continuously evolve and improve data center
network operations. The world's first programmable Wedge 100C open
switch platform will allow developers to continuously introduce new
protocols, adapt networks to new server technologies like
containers, and improve network visibility without requiring the
deployment of new network switching systems. These attributes
extend the life cycle of the Wedge 100C switch, and deliver on the
OCP vision of providing high ROI on the datacenter operator's
switching infrastructure investment.
"The Open Compute Networking Project is excited to see that
Cavium has shared the Wedge 100C hardware design with the
community," said Omar Baldonado, OCP
Networking Project Co-Lead. "Wedge 100C provides data center
operators with the option of using a programmable switching
silicon. This is the flexibility the industry needs from rich
hardware and software."
"Contributing the programmable Wedge 100C open switch platform
to the OCP is an important step in supporting the OCP's goal of
maximizing innovation," said Eric Hayes, Vice President and
General Manager of the Switching Platform Group at Cavium. "This
contribution empowers today a community of developers to produce
cost effective, innovative data center networking solutions, that
are extremely beneficial to datacenter operators as they migrate
their networks to 25 GbE and 100 GbE."
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.
About the Open Compute Project
The Open Compute Project Foundation is a 501(c)(6) organization
which was founded in 2011 by Facebook, Intel, and Rackspace. Our
mission is to apply the benefits of open source to hardware and
rapidly increase the pace of innovation in, near and around the
data center and beyond.
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