SAN JOSE, Calif. and
BARCELONA, Spain, Feb. 27, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Cavium, Inc.,
(NASDAQ: CAVM), a leading provider of semiconductor products that
enable secure and intelligent processing for enterprise, data
center, wired and wireless networking, today announced the latest
addition to its OCTEON Fusion-M portfolio of wireless
infrastructure processors.
Market Dynamics for Radio Access Networks
As radio networks increasingly use higher frequency bands, the
demand for high output, high user count micro cells with full macro
BTS capabilities at significantly lower cost of deployment has
increased dramatically, not just for traditional infill use but
also for providing densification in urban areas or in public host
neutral applications.
Operators are seeing increased need for low cost, low power
micro basestations, providing coverage in sparse deployments like
small towns and rural areas in both developed and emerging
economies. Unlike historical attempts at small cell offerings, the
OCTEON Fusion-M microcell technology is directly derived from the
larger full featured macro cell SoCs. The OCTEON Fusion-M family is
fully featured and software compatible allowing excellent
re-use.
The continuous and relentless increase in data traffic and the
ever increasing demands for increased data rates for end
users will impact how cellular networks are deployed in
the future. Providing high system capacity and high per-user
data rates – requirements critical for the creation of a 5G
network – will require a densification of the radio access network
or the deployment of additional network nodes.
Increases in the number of cells will allow the traffic per
square-meter to be increased resulting in a significant improvement
in achievable data rates.
New Category Single Chip MicroCell: Laying the foundation of
Dense HetNets, Multi-RAT and 5G standards
The OCTEON Fusion-M CNF73xx processors are single chip solutions
for micro BTS, Digital DAS and Host Neutral applications, for full
L1-L7 processing on a single SoC. The CNF73xx is an entry
level, scaled down version of the OCTEON Fusion CNF75xx product,
delivering the lowest power per user for this class of radio cell.
The key features include highly optimized full custom processor
cores, a highly efficient caching subsystem, high memory bandwidth
and a very flexible and high performance PHY. They also include a
host of high speed I/O configurations and innovative wireless
specific hardware accelerators providing high throughput system
radio performance along with very high user counts.
Feature highlights:
- Highly integrated multi-protocol single chip 4 sector 8T8R MIMO
with up to 4 cores running up to 1.2 GHz core frequency
- A range of user counts from 512 to 1,024 simultaneous active
users
- Multi-Protocol (LTE/LTE-A/LTE-U/WCDMA/GSM) (LTE Rel 12)
SoC
- Fully configurable Wireless Baseband Module based on VLIW DSP
cores, comprehensive PHY hardware accelerators, custom XBAR and PHY
Shared memory
- Hardware Beam Forming
- Integrated I/O capacity including JESD207P/JESD204B,10GE,
SGMII, PCIe v3.0
The new CNF73xx family offers simultaneous multi-sector,
multi-protocol support with very flexible antenna mapping. As part
of its many advanced features the CNF73xx family also provides
native beam-forming hardware support as well as a range of RF
interfaces for external high output radios.
"Cavium has taken its successful OCTEON Fusion-M technology and
retooled it at a rapidly growing market," said Jag Bolaria,
Principal Analyst of the Linley Group. "The need for densification
of networks is apparent and this new offering provides operators
another solution in their portfolio on the path to 5G in the
future."
"The OCTEON Fusion-M CNF73xx provides a very cost effective
solution for operators to deploy both host neutral or high capacity
outdoor micro BaseStations to build out their existing networks,"
said Raj Singh, VP of Cavium's Network and Communications
Group. "We continue to focus on baseband processor
innovation, software integration and cost-efficient hardware
platform designs in response to emerging market needs."
Availability
The OCTEON Fusion-M CNF73xx family of processors along with a
range of hardware reference platforms are sampling now to select
customers.
About Cavium
Cavium, Inc. (NASDAQ: CAVM), offers a broad portfolio of
infrastructure solutions for compute, security, storage, switching,
connectivity and baseband processing. Cavium's highly integrated
multi-core SoC products deliver software compatible solutions
across low to high performance points enabling secure and
intelligent functionality in Enterprise, Data Center and Service
Provider Equipment. Cavium processors and solutions are supported
by an extensive ecosystem of operating systems, tools, application
stacks, hardware reference designs and other products. Cavium is
headquartered in San Jose, CA with
design centers in California,
Massachusetts, India, Israel, China
and Taiwan.
For more information, please visit: http://www.cavium.com.
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