SAN JOSE, Calif., March 8, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Cavium, Inc.
(NASDAQ: CAVM) a leading provider of semiconductor products that
enable secure and intelligent processing for enterprise, data
center, cloud, wired and wireless networking, today announced
support for Software for Open Networking in the Cloud (SONiC) on
Cavium's XPliant® Ethernet switches.
SONiC is an open source project contributed by Microsoft which
is comprised of a collection of networking software components
required to build network devices like switches.
During the OCP US Summit being held in Santa Clara, Microsoft and Cavium will
collaborate to showcase SONiC running on OCP AS7512-32X open
network 100GE data center platform by Edgecore Networks, which
features the XPliant programmable Ethernet switch device.
"SONiC is about cloud speed and scale," said Eric Hayes, VP/GM, Switch Platform Group at
Cavium. "By supporting SONiC we are enabling developers to unleash
innovation with cloud-scale agility, greatly improving data center
network operational efficiency, and significantly increasing the
ROI of the datacenter operator's switching infrastructure
investment."
Cavium's XPliant Ethernet switch family is the first to deliver
a high throughput programmable data center switching solution that
is shipping today in production. Platforms based on the XPliant
Ethernet switch family leverage its programmatic control of table
resources and pipeline logic to meet the specific needs of the
network architecture and while providing an advanced packet
visibility and telemetry. In addition to programmability, the
XPliant family of Ethernet switches architecture offers a fully
centralized shared dynamically allocated packet buffer to absorb
large packet bursts and provide advanced traffic management
functions.
"Cavium's support of SONiC is another example of expanding the
open networking community effort," said Jeff Catlin, VP Technology,
Edgecore Networks. "Cavium's continuing contributions to these
open initiatives help to develop rich ecosystems of differentiated
solutions, including the Cavium XPliant based Edgecore AS7512-32X
switch, an OCP open hardware design."
Yousef Khalidi, Corporate Vice
President of Microsoft Azure Networking, said, "With Cavium SONiC
support, the data center operators are getting the option to use a
programmable switching silicon, delivering the flexibility the
industry needs to embrace the full agility of the cloud. Cavium
silicon is included in the Microsoft SONiC showcase, along with
other vendors, where we demonstrate sharing the same software stack
across multiple switch hardware platforms."
Cavium will showcase an array of the company's extensive
portfolio of products and technologies for data centers based on
XPliant programmable Ethernet switches, ThunderX® Server
processors, QLogic FastLinQ® Ethernet adapters in booth B-15 at
this week's OCP US Summit.
The switching demonstration will include a variety of hardware
platforms such as Arista 7160, Edge-Core AS7512-32X and Wedge 100C
and diversity of disaggregated switching software solutions
available to run with XPliant ASICs such as FBOSS, OpenSwitch,
PicOS, PontOS, SONiC and others.
To schedule a meeting with Cavium, please contact your local
sales account manager or Lilly Ly
(lly@cavium.com). Please enter Meeting Request at OCP
2017.
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.
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