SANTA CLARA, Calif. and
LAS VEGAS, Jan. 5, 2016 /PRNewswire/ --
Marvell (NASDAQ:MRVL), a world leader in storage, cloud
infrastructure, Internet of Things (IoT), connectivity and
multimedia semiconductor solutions, today announced an addition to
its family of Andromeda Box™ platforms for IoT, the Andromeda Box
Connect, a scalable gateway platform with broadband access, wired
and wireless networking and storage options for the rapid
prototyping and development of IoT gateways and smart devices.
Following Marvell's recent launch of the Andromeda Box Edge for IoT
edge applications, the Andromeda Box Connect is Marvell's second
Andromeda Box platform made for Brillo, Google's operating system
(OS) for IoT, with native support for Weave communication protocol.
In addition, the Andromeda Box Connect also supports Linux OS,
OpenWRT and other open software stacks.
"Marvell's open and innovative Andromeda Box platforms are true
end-to-end solutions to speed up the development of smart and
connected systems for homes, cars, cities, factories, retail
environments and agriculture. Built on Marvell's
industry-leading multi-core ARM SoC and wired and wireless
connectivity silicon technology, the new Andromeda Box Connect
implements industry leading open software such as Brillo and its
core services to bring the simplicity and speed of software
development to hardware," said Weining
Gan, Head of SEEDS Business Unit at Marvell. "We are excited
to work with a network of global partners to enable the development
of sophisticated connected solutions. Leveraging the proven track
record, expertise and excellent system level support of Marvell's
ecosystem partners, together we can provide OEMs and developers
with a choice of trusted complementary products and services to
develop their products."
The Andromeda Box Connect gives developers the flexibility
to create and develop innovative, cost-effective and secure gateway
solutions for a wide array of market segments. The new platform is
built on Marvell's award-winning high performance ARMADA® 385
application processor, Marvell's 88E6141 GE switch that supports
2.5 Gigabits per second (Gbps) uplink, and Marvell's advanced
Avastar® Wi-Fi 11AC, Bluetooth and 802.15.4 connectivity solution.
The Andromeda Box Connect supports multiple operating systems
including Brillo, Ubuntu Linux and OpenWrt, as well as
communication protocols such as Weave. The platform also enables
router and gateway functions, home automation and optional private
cloud service through a NAS connection.
With an open embedded OS, core services, a developer kit and
developer console, device developers can choose from a variety of
hardware capabilities and customization options, along with system
level offerings from ecosystem partners, to quickly move from
prototype to production and manage at scale with over-the-air (OTA)
updates, metrics and crash reporting. A growing list of partners
that have already adopted Marvell's Andromeda Box platform includes
IBM, Aricent, Zonoff, Shaspa and Sol Chip.
Quotes from Selected Partners:
"IBM is excited to be participating with Marvell in delivering
the next generation of innovative Internet of Things devices by
providing our Informix technology for use on the Marvell Andromeda
Box platform. The combination of IBM's Informix database and
Marvell's Andromeda Box platform provides clients with a high
performance and easily customized platform for building advanced
IoT applications. We believe Marvell's proven success in supporting
embedded clients, with over one billion chips shipped a year, will
be enhanced by their clients' access to Informix, with its proven
ability to support the most challenging IoT workloads," said
Phil Francisco, Vice President, Data
Management Products and Strategy, IBM Analytics Platform.
"Aricent Smart Community provides a complete solution with
features including home automation, Smart Energy, Smart parking,
street lighting and event notifications. Aricent's IoT Gateway
software running on Marvell's Andromeda platform is one of the core
elements in the Smart Community solution. It connects end devices
and sensors with multiple low power wireless technology to cloud
infrastructure. IoT standard protocols like oneM2M, LWM2M, CoAP,
MQTT and DTLS are some of the protocols supported by Aricent's IoT
Gateway. The Smart Community solution supports multiple
commercially available cloud infrastructures and the solution is
highly scalable to adapt to Smart city solutions," said Giri KK,
Vice President, Semiconductor & Embedded System Business at
Aricent. "This partnership strengthens our collaboration and
commitment to bring the right solution for emerging Smart city
requirements and it accelerates customer time to market for
realizing next generation solutions for Smart communities and Smart
cities."
"Zonoff is excited to be working with Marvell to bring
best-in-class consumer IoT platform solutions to market. Running
Zonoff's expanded Z1 Software Suite on Marvell's Andromeda Box
hardware platform allows us to offer a fully functional Consumer
IoT experience through Marvell's sales channels," said Mike Harris, CEO and Founder at Zonoff. "Marvell
has been a long time partner of Zonoff and has enabled us to stay
cutting edge by bringing best in class SoC performance and value to
market."
"Shaspa's decision to move to the Marvell Andromeda Box platform
for our Smart city solution was driven by three key factors:
scalability to offer a range of gateway capabilities, quick time to
market to solution deployment and, most importantly, the strong
support in making an optimum design. Together with the integration
of the recently launched service delivery platform and a number of
Smart City pilots in place, we are now able to offer an end-to-end
solution and service delivery platform for a range of market
sectors, starting with a series of Smart streetlamps. Clients can
start with a small-scale pilot, building and testing solutions
within the Service Delivery Framework, before seamlessly scaling to
full-scale projects supporting millions of sites using this
platform with its industry solution templates for areas including
Smart City, Smart Building and Assisted Living," said Oliver Goh, CEO of Shaspa.
"We highly value our cooperation with Marvell, which is one of
the leading communications and consumer semiconductor
companies," said Dr. Shani Keysar,
Sol Chip Founder & CEO. "The ability of IoT applications to
operate autonomously is limited by battery lifespan. The need to
replace batteries causes considerable downtime, is expensive and
takes a heavy toll on the environment due to battery waste
disposal. The combination of Marvell's Andromeda Box platform and
Sol Chip's energy harvesting technology will enable fully
autonomous applications with maintenance-free operation
to improve user experience and product
lifetime."
To learn more about Marvell's Andromeda Box solutions for IoT,
please visit http://www.andromedabox.org/.
Marvell will be demonstrating its Andromeda Box solutions at CES
2016 in Marvell's suite, Level 3, Murano 3304, at The Venetian. CES
is being held in Las Vegas, NV at
the Las Vegas Convention and World Trade Center and the Venetian
Hotel on Jan. 6–9, 2016.
About Marvell
Marvell (NASDAQ: MRVL) is a global
leader in providing complete silicon solutions and Kinoma® software
enabling the "Smart Life and Smart Lifestyle." From storage to
cloud infrastructure, Internet of Things (IoT), connectivity and
multimedia, Marvell's diverse product portfolio aligns complete
platform designs with industry-leading performance, security,
reliability and efficiency. At the core of the world's most
powerful consumer, network and enterprise systems, Marvell empowers
partners and their customers to always stand at the forefront of
innovation, performance and mass appeal. By providing people around
the world with mobility and ease of access to services adding value
to their social, personal and work lives, Marvell is committed to
enhancing the human experience.
As used in this release, the term "Marvell" refers to Marvell
Technology Group Ltd. and its subsidiaries. For more information,
please visit www.Marvell.com.
Marvell, the M logo, ARMADA, Avastar and Kinoma are registered
trademarks of Marvell and/or its affiliates. Andromeda Box is a
trademark of Marvell and/or its affiliates. Other names and brands
may be claimed as the property of others.
For Further Information Contact:
Marvell
Media Relations
Sue Kim
Director, Corporate Communications & PR
408.222.1942
suekim@marvell.com
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