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Parties to work together to accelerate virtualized BBUs based on General-Purpose Processors
SAN JOSE, CA December 8th, 2016 - Today, Cavium, Inc. (NASDAQ: CAVM), a leading provider of semiconductor products that enable intelligent processing for Enterprise, Telco, MSP and cloud data centers, announced an agreement with China Unicom to accelerate the design and development of Virtualized BBU and provide a path for 5G adoption. The collaboration will focus on commercializing vBBU systems using general purpose hardware based on Cavium’s ThunderX® workload optimized data server processors which are built on ARM architecture. In addition, Cavium has joined the China Unicom CORD Industry Alliance and will drive adoption of open source architecture and technologies in China together with China Unicom.
China Unicom and Cavium will work together on new innovative fronthaul solutions, system architecture and vBBU performance and deployment. This collaboration allows Cavium to align with China Unicom’s commercial networks technology development and innovation, research feasibility of Next Generation Virtualized Wireless Access Network, perform lab and field testing, evaluate results, drive deployment of developed technologies into commercial network, carry out lab and field performance test and assessment, accelerate pilot and application of new technical innovations in real-world networks.
“We are very pleased to collaborate with China Unicom in this critical area. As network capacity continues to be stretched and the user demands continue to grow the industry is faced with significant challenges which cannot be solved by traditional means,” said Raj Singh General Manager of the Wireless Broadband Group at Cavium. “The use of advanced general purpose hardware such as Cavium’s ThunderX workload optimized data severs allows us to provide a highly scalable virtualized solution for these requirements.”
“Virtualized network based on general purpose hardware and open source technologies represents the overall direction for future network changes. China Unicom partners with Cavium, a leader in virtualized BBU technology field, to drive R&D of virtualization products based on general purpose processors, thus laying a solid foundation for building new generation of network infrastructure,” said Dr. Tang Xiongyan, CTO of Network Technology Research Institute, China Unicom.
About Cavium
Cavium, Inc. (NASDAQ: CAVM), offers a broad portfolio of integrated, software compatible processors ranging in performance from 1Gbps to 100Gbps that enable secure, intelligent functionality in Enterprise, Data Center, Broadband/Consumer, Mobile and Service Provider Equipment, highly programmable switches which scale to 3.2Tbps and Ethernet and Fibre Channel adapters up to 100Gbps. Cavium processors are supported by ecosystem partners that provide operating systems, tools and application support, hardware reference designs and other products. Cavium is headquartered in San Jose, CA with design centers in California, Massachusetts, India, China and Taiwan. For more information, please visit: http://www.cavium.com.
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Microsoft has announced a partnership with Qualcomm to bring Windows 10 - real Windows 10, not the aborted cut-down version formerly known as Windows RT - to the company's ARM processors.
Microsoft's previous attempts at playing with non-x86/AMD64 platforms have not exactly set the world aflame. The company has long offered an embedded Windows release which supports ARM and other non-x86/AMD64 architectures, and recently made that available to a wider audience under the moniker Windows 10 IoT Core. Although Windows 10 IoT Core does indeed run on ARM-based devices, in particular the popular Raspberry Pi single-board computer, it's not Windows as most users would know it; instead it's a cut-down operating system designed to run a single application at a time, and built with the intention of winning over embedded developers from Linux and other non-Windows kernels to the Windows ecosystem.
The closest Microsoft has ever come to a true release of a consumer-centric Windows version on ARM was Windows RT, launched alongside Windows 8 on Microsoft's Surface family of tablets. While one or two hardware partners licensed Windows RT, it was soon abandoned by both third parties and Microsoft itself: Microsoft confirmed in 2015 that Windows RT would not be updated to a Windows 10-based version, and sank the final nail into its coffin a few months later by leaving Windows RT out of its so-called 'Universal' Windows Platform.
Now, though, Microsoft is having another crack of the whip, and it's convinced Qualcomm to come along for the ride. Devices built around Qualcomm's latest Snapdragon processors will, the companies have jointly announced, be able to run Windows 10 - and this time it's truly the same release of Windows you'd find on an x86/AMD64 device. Not only will it run Windows 10, mind you, but also Windows 10's considerable ecosystem of applications - including those compiled exclusively for Win32 under the x86 architecture and the Universal Windows Platform.
'To deliver on our customers' growing needs to create on the go, we announced today that Windows 10 is coming to ARM through our partnership with Qualcomm,' explained Microsoft's Terry Myerson in a blog post late last night. 'For the first time ever, our customers will be able to experience the Windows they know with all the apps, peripherals, and enterprise capabilities they require, on a truly mobile, power efficient, always-connected cellular PC.'
Technical details of how the system will work have not yet been released, but the secret lies in emulation: a translation engine will take the x86/AMD64 instructions from the operating system and the software it's hosting and translate them into ARM instructions for the host processor. It's a tried-and-tested approach which gave machines like the Acorn Archimedes and Commodore Amiga basic x86 support in the 1980s and 1990s, though one which typically comes with a considerable performance hit - something for which Qualcomm's latest chips, it is to be hoped, can compensate.
A video demonstrating Windows 10 and Adobe Photoshop running on an ARM-based device is reproduced below, with Qualcomm and Microsoft promising to launch the first units some time next year.
BARCELONA, SPAIN – Oct. 25, 2016 –Cavium,
Inc. (NASDAQ: CAVM), a leading provider of semiconductor products that
enable intelligent processing for enterprise, data center, cloud, wired
and wireless networking, will showcase highly optimized platforms
enabling OpenStack® deployments based on Cavium’s award-winning ThunderX®, LiquidIO® and FastLinQ™ Ethernet adapter product lines during OpenStack Summit being held in Barcelona Spain October 25 - 28.
OpenStack
is the most widely deployed open source software for building clouds.
Enterprises use OpenStack to support rapid deployment of new products,
reduce costs and improve internal systems. Service providers use
OpenStack to give customers reliable, easily accessible cloud
infrastructure resources, supporting technologies including VMs, bare
metal and containers.
Cavium's
ThunderX ARMv8 based workload optimized processor integrates key
capabilities that are critical for the most demanding Public and Private
Cloud workloads. The OpenStack cloud infrastructure enables end users
to fully utilize ThunderX features for critical workloads such as cloud
storage with CEPH, Apache Hadoop for Big Data Analytics, distributed
data bases such as MySQL and Cassandra and secure web serving with
NGINX. ThunderX is also optimized for networking specific workloads such
as Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) and Load-Balancing for Telco
applications.
Cavium's
LiquidIO II Intelligent Server adapters fully support and seamlessly
integrate OpenStack software value-add functionality for application
acceleration, network configuration and provisioning, security, and
isolation in multi-tenant compute clusters. LiquidIO Open Virtual Switch
(OVS) offload enables various Network Function Virtualization (NFV) and
security features as a workload specific Virtual Network Function (VNF)
or as a Service Function Chain (SFC) with seamless configuration and
provisioning using OpenStack platform.
Cavium
QLogic FastLinQ 45000 Series comprise the next generation of Ethernet
adapters with the capability to support 10/25/40/50/100GbE while
delivering a broad set of protocols, features, speeds and capabilities,
including Universal RDMA, and stateless offloads for server and network
virtualization. FastLinQ Ethernet Adapters are integrated with common
OpenStack deployment and orchestration frameworks like Mirantis FUEL
which enables OpenStack cloud deployments and operations to be
simplified and accelerated.
Cavium will showcase the following ThunderX, LiquidIO and FastLinQ product lines in booth B36:
- ThunderX: 64–bit ARMv8 based SoC family of workload optimized processors with a range of SKUs and form factors optimized for hyperscale data centers targeting cloud computing and NFV, which include volume compute, storage, secure compute and networking specific workloads.
- Software Ecosystem partners supporting ThunderX including Canonical, Red Hat and SUSE
- LiquidIO: 10/25/40GbE Intelligent Server and network appliance adapters accelerating network performance for SDN and NFV application by offloading Open vSwitch and standard Overlay tunnel protocols with OpenStack API services and plugins. Cloud data centers benefit with additional high performance security and storage offloads including IPsec protocol acceleration with the highest performance and low CPU utilization.
- QLogic FastLinQ™ – 10/25/40/50/100GbE Ethernet adapters that accelerate the deployment of OpenStack by delivering the ability to orchestrate and manage an OpenStack deployment with technologies like the Plug-in for Mirantis® Fuel for automatic SR-IOV configuration, QConvergeConsole (QCC) for OpenStack physical and logical topology maps and ability to deliver QoS for network functions.
To schedule a meeting with Cavium during OpenStack Summit, please contact your local sales account manager or Lilly Ly (lly@cavium.com).
About Cavium
Cavium, Inc. (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 products ranging in performance from 100 Mbps to 100 Gbps that enable secure and intelligent functionality for compute, network connectivity, storage and wireless applications. 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
Cavium, Inc. (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 products ranging in performance from 100 Mbps to 100 Gbps that enable secure and intelligent functionality for compute, network connectivity, storage and wireless applications. 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
