Cavium
Networks Announces Broad New Line of Storage Services Processors
(SSPs)
New OCTEON™ Storage Services Processors
Integrate 2 to 12 MIPS64 Cores, Storage and Network Interfaces,
RAID Hardware Acceleration and Innovative RAS Features
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., June 26, 2007 –
Cavium Networks (NASDAQ: CAVM), a leading provider of highly
integrated semiconductor products that enable intelligent
processing for networking, communications, storage and security
applications, today announced the introduction of the OCTEON
MIPS64 Multicore Storage Services Processor (SSP) family of
products. This family of products has been designed to address
the specific needs of the Storage market. The OCTEON SSP single
chip solutions combine innovative storage processing with
Cavium’s proven high performance networking, security
and application acceleration processors. The OCTEON SSP delivers
two to four times more compute cycles versus many alternatives
and integrates advanced hardware acceleration for RAID, compression,
de-duplication, security and iSCSI. The OCTEON SSP family
scales from low-end solutions to very highperformance SAN/NAS
systems, providing a flexible, software compatible platform
across a broad range of price and performance points. Key
OCTEON SSP family features include integration of 2 to 12
cnMIPS™ Plus 64-bit cores, storage application acceleration,
an array of high-speed input/output interfaces including 10-Gigabit
XAUI, PCI-Express, Gigabit Ethernet ports, dual DDR2 memory
controllers, and innovative data protection mechanisms.
The OCTEON SSP CN57XX and CN55XX are targeted for applications
such as Fiber Channel and Ethernet Disk Arrays, RAID controllers,
multi-protocol switches, single-chip iSCSI adaptors, virtualization
equipment, Protection and NAS/SAN equipment.
“Storage infrastructure is going through significant
changes that include data consolidation driven by regulatory
compliance, I/O virtualization, storage archival on disk,
and increasing storage access over Wide Area Networks,”
said Aileen A Arcilla, IDC’s Senior Analyst for Semiconductors:
Networking, Broadband and Storage. “These changes
are driving the need for intelligent processing, higher
capacity, reliability, security and data compression in
next generation storage solutions.”
“Existing storage systems implement different hardware
and software architectures across the low-end, mid-range
and high-end performance and capacity points,” said
Syed Ali, President and CEO at Cavium Networks. “Cavium’s
SSP now offers a scalable processor family that enables
common architecture across a broad range of performance
and capacity points with essential integrated hardware acceleration
for RAID 5/6, compression, de-duplication and security.”
Current solutions often require multiple chips to perform
storage input and output processing, RAID processing and
services. These storage systems typically report simple
IOPS and raw throughput without reference to full featured
performance since performance drops when services are enabled.
With the new storage services requirements of 10 Gigabit
Ethernet, security, compression, de-duplication, and virtualization
gaining traction, full featured performance metrics are
becoming important and are forcing OEMs to add new acceleration
chips to their storage systems. The new OCTEON SSP family
significantly reduces the number of chips required to build
full featured next generation storage systems by integrating
multiple functions into a single chip.
OCTEON Storage Services Processors
The OCTEON SSP processor family consists of seven different
software-compatible products with 2 to 12 cnMIPS™
Plus cores, with clock speeds of up to 1 Gigahertz which
provides up to 12 GHz of 64-bit processing and 2MB of on-chip
L2 Cache. Additionally, OCTEON SSP processors incorporate
advanced storage acceleration for RAID5 and RAID6, TCP,
data de-duplication, virtualization and compression/decompression.
The OCTEON SSP Processor family integrates required interfaces
for networking and disk connectivity with up to two 10-Gigabit
XAUIs, two 8-lane PCIe controllers, eight SGMII Gigabit
Ethernet ports and memory I/Os with dual 72-bit DDR2 controllers.
OCTEON SSP processors are also available with integrated
cryptographic offload including AES-GCM, XTS-AES with flexibility
to support evolving storage encryption standards. OCTEON
SSP also includes innovative and flexible data protection
and memory backup features to enable enterprise-class reliability,
availability and serviceability.
Performance and Software
The OCTEON SSP processor family offers two to four times
more compute cycles as compared to alternative solutions.
OCTEON SSP enables storage equipment vendors to build low
to high-end scalable storage solutions providing up to 3
Million on-chip virtual IOPS, 10Gbps of iSCSI, 1GB/s of
compression / decompression, up to 2GB/s of in-line encryption
in a single chip and up to 10GB/s of RAID acceleration.
Cavium Networks provides a feature rich software development
kit with 12-way SMP Linux 2.6, GNU Toolchain, debugger tools,
RAID acceleration APIs and production ready software toolkits
for a range of storage protocols. For more information about
OCTEON Processors
please visit: http://www.caviumnetworks.com/OCTEON_MIPS64.html.
Pricing and Availability
Pricing for the OCTEON MIPS64 Multicore SSP family ranges
from $59 to $575, in 10K unit quantities. The OCTEON Development
Kit using Simulator, tool-chain, reference applications
and Storage software stacks are available now to partner
companies. OCTEON™ CN57XX family processors with 6
to 12-core versions and evaluation boards will be available
in the third quarter of 2007 and CN55XX family processors
with 2 to 6-core versions and evaluation boards will be
available in the fourth quarter of 2007.
About Cavium Networks
Cavium Networks is a leading provider of highly integrated
semiconductor products that enable intelligent processing
in networking, communications, storage and security applications.
Cavium Networks offers a broad portfolio of integrated,
software compatible processors ranging in performance from
10 Mbps to 10 Gbps that enable secure, intelligent functionality
in enterprise, data-center, broadband/consumer and access
& service provider equipment. Cavium Networks processors
are supported by ecosystem partners that provide operating
systems, tool support, reference designs and other services.
Cavium Networks principal offices are in Mountain View,
CA with design team locations in California, Massachusetts
and India. For more information, please visit: http://www.caviumnetworks.com
This press release may contain forward-looking statements
regarding future events that involve risks and uncertainties.
Readers are cautioned that these forward-looking statements
are only predictions and may differ materially from actual
future events or results. These forward-looking statements
involve risks and uncertainties, as well as assumptions
that if they do not fully materialize or prove incorrect,
could cause our results to differ materially from those
expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements.
The risks and uncertainties that could cause our results
to differ materially from those expressed or implied by
such forward-looking statements include but are not limited
to, the performance levels of the OCTEON SSP processor products,
availability of OCTEON™ CN57XX family processors and
evaluation boards in the third quarter of 2007 and CN55XX
family processors and evaluation boards in the fourth quarter
of 2007, the potential design of these products into Fiber
Channel and Ethernet Disk Arrays, RAID controllers, Multi-protocol
switches, single-chip iSCSI adaptors, Virtualization equipment,
Protection and NAS/SAN and other equipment by leading or
other Storage equipment vendors and other risks and uncertainties
described more fully in our documents filed with or furnished
to the Securities and Exchange Commission. More information
about these and other risks that may impact Cavium’s
business are set forth in our Registration Statement on
Form S-1 filed with the SEC, including the “Risk Factors”
section in our final Prospectus dated May 1, 2007. All forward-looking
statements in this press release are based on information
available to us as of the date hereof and qualified in their
entirety by this cautionary statement, and we assume no
obligation to revise or update these forward-looking statements
to reflect events or circumstances after the date hereof.
Cavium Networks Contact:
Angel Atondo
Marketing Manager
Cavium Networks
805 East Middlefield Road,
Mountain View, CA 94043
Telephone: 650-623-7033
Email: angel.atondo@caviumnetworks.com
