LOS ANGELES, March 20, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Cavium, Inc.
(NASDAQ: CAVM), a leading provider of semiconductor products that
enable secure and intelligent packet processing, and Elenion
Technologies ("Elenion"), an innovator in silicon photonics, today
announced an end-to-end reference architecture for Next Generation
Enterprise and Cloud Data Centers incorporating Cavium's QLogic
Network Interface Cards (NICs) and XPliant®-based switches, and
Elenion's Silicon Photonics on-board optics. This direct
fiber-to-the-server and parallel multi-channel on-board solution
for switches enables increased bandwidth to the server, aggregation
to 400G and beyond, lower power consumption, and a path to the
industry target of < $1/Gb.
Cavium and Elenion will be showcasing their reference design for
fiber-to-the-server solutions during OFC 2017 in Los Angeles (March
20-23). Cavium is contributing two important elements of
this architecture. The first is Cavium's QLogic high performance
multi-protocol Ethernet adapters supporting 10Gb/25Gb/40Gb/100Gb
speeds and ideally suited for enterprise and cloud data centers.
And the second is Cavium's XPliant Ethernet switch family, 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 exceptional
packet visibility and telemetry. The demonstration leverages
Elenion's next-generation photonics platform and packaging
technology, and showcases advanced on-board transceivers with light
sources integrated onto the silicon photonics. This innovative
integration enables truly scalable, cost disruptive on-board
solutions for NIC and switch applications within the data center
(DC).
"Elenion on-board optic modules are a key component in the
end-to-end flexible solutions of Cavium NIC and switching
systems, enabling high-speed links over optical fiber in a
cost-effective manner." – Eric
Hayes, Vice President / General Manager, Switch Platform
Group.
"Through the use of on-board optics (OBO), more efficient data
center architectures can be realized, resulting in significant
savings. We're excited with the progress made by Elenion and
Cavium," said Jeff Cox, Principal
Director of Network Engineering at Microsoft.
As traffic volumes within data center networks continue to scale
dramatically, silicon photonics plays a key role in enabling the
way data center networks are re-architected, including a move away
from pluggable optics to on-board optics. On-board optics offer the
benefit of improved performance and network economics.
Architecture Demonstrated during OFC 2017
Elenion will
be showcasing its next-generation silicon photonics technologies
and solutions in conjunction with OFC 2017 in Los Angeles, CA on March 20-23. To schedule a meeting, please
contact David Lam
(david.lam@elenion.com).
About Elenion Technologies
Elenion Technologies, LLC
("Elenion") is focused on driving innovation in silicon photonic
technologies. Built around world-class multi-disciplinary
experts in silicon photonics, lasers, electronics and advanced
packaging, Elenion is developing next-generation photonic
integrated circuit technologies and solutions for a broad range of
datacom and telecom applications. Elenion is headquartered in
New York, New York, with offices
in San Jose, California and
Munich, Germany. For more
information, please visit www.elenion.com.
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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