Cavium Networks (NASDAQ: CAVM) is a provider of highly integrated
semiconductor processors that enable intelligent networking,
communications, storage, video and security applications. Cavium
Networks offers a broad portfolio of integrated, software compatible
processors ranging in performance from 10+ Mbps to 40Gbps that
enable secure, intelligent functionality in Enterprise, Data-Center,
Broadband/Consumer and Access and Service Provider equipment.
Cavium Networks’ processors are supported by ecosystem
partners that provide operating systems, tools and application
support, hardware reference designs and other services. Cavium
Networks is headquartered in Mountain View, CA with design team
locations in California, Massachusetts and India.
Products
Cavium Networks product portfolio includes:
OCTEON Multi-core MIPS64 Processors: Includes OCTEON II CN68XX and CN63XX, and OCTEON Plus CN58XX, CN57XX, CN56XX,CN55XX, CN54XX, CN52XX and CN50XX SoC processors. These processors provide a scalable range from one to thirty-two cnMIPS™ cores on a single chip along with the most advanced networking, security and application hardware acceleration. The cnMIPS™ core is Cavium’s custom implementation of MIPS64 release 2,optimized for networking, and services with very low power consumption. Application hardware acceleration engines for QoS, packet processing,TCP, compression, encryption, RAID, de-duplication and pattern matching allow the family to deliver unmatched scalability, performance and integration in a fuly compatible manner from 100 Mbps to full-duplex 40 Gbps of network performance. Flexible, standards-based I/O’s including gigabit Ethernet, 10 gigabit Ethernet, PCI Express Gen 1&2, USB2.0, serial Rapid I/O (sRIOTM) and Interlaken enable flexible, high-bandwith network and system connectivity.
NITROX® DPI Layer 7 Content Processors: Includes NITROX DPI CN17XX processor and board family. These products provide leading L7 content processing performance with PCI-Express connectivity for enterprise routers and switches, data center networking appliances, integrated security appliances and service provider infrastructrue. It includes innovative deep-packet inspection technology. The NITROX DPI CN17XX family includes four different products that range in performance from 4 to 20 Gbps in a software compatible manner.
NITROX® Security Processors: Includes four families of security processors, NITROX, NITROX Lite, NITROX II and NITROX PX span in performance from 50 Mbps to 10 Gbps of IPsec, SSL WLAN security, and 1K to 40K sessions/sec. These products provide a high degree of flexibility, hardware scalability and software compatibility, as well as the highest performance in the marketplace.
ECONA ARM Core Processors: Includes two product lines based upon the distinct performance, feature and cost requirements of the target network connected home and office products. The ECONA CNS1XXX provides an integrated ARM cpu, comprehensive I/Os and hardware offload blocks for high performance home and office routers and gateways. The ECONA CNS2XXX provides even greater integration for the most cost and power sensitive home and retail network applications.
PureVu™ Video Processors: Includes the CNW3XXX video processors and the CNW2XXX micro-mezzanine modules. The PureVu CNW3XXX provides industry-leading low latency, high channel density and low-power for HD and interactive video applications. The CNW2XXX modules provide ready-to-use low latency HD/SD processing for industrial and embedded video applications.
10Gbe Intelligent Network Adapters: Includes the PCI-Express 10GbE Intelligent Network Adapters which are available in a full-height, half-length, single-slot PCI Express form factor. The PCI-Express 10GbE adapters support the OCTEON Plus CN56/57XX processors with up to 12 MIPS64 cores, and include integrated hardware acceleration for TCP, encryption/decryption, iSCSI, FCoE and compression/decompression.
Accelerator Boards: Includes security accelerator and multifunction boards for security, compression and TCP applications that span from 50 Mbps to 10 Gbps in a variety of form factors including PCI/PCI-X and PCI-Express add-in cards and Gigabit Ethernet NICs.
FIPS 140-2 Level 2 and 3 Acceleration Boards: Includes FIPS 140-2 Level 2 and 3 compliant security accelerator boards for customers with the highest level of security requirements. This scalable product family offers the best performance and price/performance to OEM customers targeting the highly security conscious government, financial and healthcare markets.
Customers and Target Markets
Cavium Networks’ products have been designed-in by the World's leading networking, wireless, storage and security vendors. Cavium Networks' design wins are at companies such as Alcatel-Lucent, Aruba Networks, Cisco, Citrix, F5 Networks Furukawa Electric, GE Fanuc, IBM, Juniper, Motorola ECC, Netgear, Nokia, Radisys, Sofaware, Sonicwall, and Qualcomm.
Target Markets
Cavium Networks’ products are used in a wide variety of networking applications including:
Enterprise Networks: Routers, Security Appliance, WAN Optimization, and Enterprise Switch
Data Centers: Application Delivery Switch, XML Gateway, and Server Offload
Broadband and Consumer: Broadband Router, Triple Play Gateway, Retail and Small Office Wired and WLAN Router, VoIP Phone and Network Storage.
Access and Service Provider: Security Gateway, Session Border Controller, Router, and Mobile 3G/4G Infrastructure
Storage: FC to IP Router, Disc Arrays, Switches, and TCP, compression, De-duplication and Security Offload
Video Conferencing: full 1080p with Sub-frame Latency
Connected Home of Office Devices: Broadband Multi-nedia Gateway, ConnectedPicture Frame andIntelligent Network Attached Storage.
netHD: Video and game distribution via Ethernet, WiFi, Powerline and G.hn.
Embedded Video Processing: Telemedicine, Distance Learning, Video Conferencing, Teleprescence and Wireless Electronic News.
netHD: HD IP Cameras, Multi-channel, and IP Video Servers.
Awards
Cavium Networks has received numerous awards recognizing the
product line and company performance, including:
2009 Global Semiconductor Alliance Favorite Analyst Semiconductor
Company
2008 Global Semiconductor Alliance Most Respected Emerging
Public Semiconductor Company
2008 Deloitte's technology Fast 50 Winner for Silicon
Valley Software and Information Technology (IT) companies
2007 Fabless Semiconductor Association Favorite Fabless
Picks
2006 Cisco Systems Excellence in Technology Award
2006 SonicWALL Supplier of the Year Award
2006, 2004 & 2003 Fabless Semiconductor Association
Most Respected Private Company WorldWide
2005 Fabless Semiconductor Association Outstanding Financial
Performance by a Private Company
2005, 2004 & 2003 KPMG and AlwaysOn List of Top100
Private Companies
2005 & 2004 EDN Best 100 Product of the Year (OCTEON)
2004 & 2003 AnalogZone Product of the Year (NITROX
& GOLDEN GATE)
2004 & 2002 Product Awards at the Network System Design
Conference (OCTEON & NITROX)
2002 Microprocessor Report Best Security Processor (NITROX)
Executive Management
Cavium Networks is led by a seasoned management team with an average of over 20 years experience in developing and bringing to market state of the art semiconductor products.
Arthur Chadwick, Vice President of Finance & Administration and Chief Financial Officer. Previously at: Pinnacle Systems
Rajiv Khemani, Vice President and General Manager, Networking & Communications Division. Previously at: Intel, NetApp and Sun Microsystems
Anil Jain, Corporate Vice President of IC Engineering. Previously at: Compaq, DEC (Alpha Design Team)
Muhammad Raghib Hussain, CTO & Corporate Vice President of Software. Previously at: Cisco Systems and VPNet
Amer Haider, Vice President, Corporate and Business Development. Joined Cavium Networks in 2001
Andrew Rava, Vice President of Sales and Field Applications. Previously at: Broadcom and Vitesse
Syed Zaheer, Vice President of Operations. Previously at: IDT
Implementation Team
Cavium Networks has assembled a world class IC development team with experience in developing high performance processors at DEC/Compaq and Sun. Cavium Networks software team has extensive experience in bringing to market leading security products at companies like Cisco, SonicWALL, VPNet & Nortel.
Investors
Cavium Networks is a publicly held company listed on NASDAQ with the ticker symbol CAVM.
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