SAN JOSE, Calif., Aug. 19, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Cavium, Inc.,
(NASDAQ: CAVM), a leading provider of semiconductor products that
enable intelligent processing for enterprise, data center, wired
and wireless networking today announced that Microsoft Azure
Networking has ported its L3 Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) routing
stack to Cavium XPliant switches. This has been accomplished
through the use of the Switch Abstraction Interface (SAI), which
enables portability and interoperability across different hardware
platforms.
Historically switch silicon vendors offered proprietary software
interfaces requiring extensive software porting by customers to
create an end user switch product. This resulted in a
proprietary lock-in for these legacy switch silicon vendors.
The Switch Abstraction Interface (SAI) was defined as an
abstraction interface for switching ASICs in order to remove these
barriers.
SAI enables system developers to quickly and easily port
software to the best switch silicon that supports these SAI
abstractions. Earlier this year Cavium announced SAI support in the
XPliant switch SDK (software development kit) and now released this
software for general availability. Microsoft has easily ported
Layer 3 BGP routing applications to the XPliant switch SDK based on
the SAI interface. This software is currently running on the
XPliant based Edge Core AS7500-32X switch and is being demonstrated
at the SIGCOMM 2015 event which is being held August 17-21 in London.
"SAI adoption will enable customers to seamlessly deploy
multiple vendors' silicon into the network," said Kamala Subramaniam, Principal Architect, Azure
Networking at Microsoft. "We are excited that Cavium is taking
innovative steps to bring the benefits of SAI - which include
increased network agility and cost savings - to customers on their
flexible XPliant silicon."
"We are proud to participate in Microsoft's success of driving
open networking through contributions to SAI," said Eric Hayes, VP/GM, Switch Platform Group at
Cavium. "By delivering SAI on our flexible XPliant switch silicon,
we believe we will be able to deliver a more flexible and cost
effective network that will help customers and partners alike
embrace the full agility of the cloud."
Cavium's XPliant Ethernet switch family targets applications in
cloud / enterprise data centers and service provider
infrastructure, for both top-of-rack and backbone applications. The
combination of leading performance and unprecedented flexibility is
attractive across all these segments. These highly configurable
Ethernet switches with bandwidths up to 3.2 Terabits per second in
monolithic silicon support 1G, 10G, 25G, 40G, 50G and 100G
interfaces. This family of switches will also provide connectivity
solutions for embedded applications.
Microsoft's L3 software running on the Edge Core AS7500-32X
switch powered by Cavium's XPliant switching silicon will be
demonstrated during the Industrial demo session on Thursday August 20th at SIGCOMM
2015.
About Cavium, Inc.
Cavium (NASDAQ: CAVM) is a leading
provider of highly integrated semiconductor products that enable
intelligent processing in enterprise, data center, cloud and wired
and wireless service provider applications. Cavium offers a broad
portfolio of integrated, software-compatible processors ranging in
performance from 100 Mbps to 100 Gbps that enable secure,
intelligent functionality in enterprise, data-center,
broadband/consumer and access and service provider equipment.
Cavium's processors are supported by ecosystem partners that
provide operating systems, tool support, reference designs and
other services. Cavium's principal office is in San Jose, CA with design team locations in
California, Massachusetts, India and China. For more information, please visit:
http://www.cavium.com.
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Commission. More information about these and other risks that may
impact Cavium's business are set forth in the "Risk Factors"
section of our Form 10-Q filed with the Securities and Exchange
Commission on August 3, 2015. All
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