Cavium Networks OCTEON Powers
Palo Alto Networks’ PA-4000 Series, Best of Interop Grand
Prize Winner
MOUNTAIN
VIEW, Calif., May 20, 2008 – Cavium Networks
(NASDAQ: CAVM), a leading provider of semiconductor products
that enable intelligent processing for networking, communications,
storage, wireless and security applications, today announced
that Palo Alto Networks has chosen Cavium’s OCTEON Multi-core
MIPS64 processors to power its entire series of next generation
firewall systems. Palo Alto Networks PA-4000 Series next generation
firewall won the highly coveted Interop Grand Prize Award
as well as the Best of Show award in the security category
at the recent Interop 2008 in Las Vegas. Cavium Networks’
processors are being designed into market-leading networking
equipment such as routers, switches, Unified Threat Management
appliances, Layer4+ content-aware switches, modular chassis
switches, wireless infrastructure equipment, broadband router
and wireless LAN access/aggregation points.
“Palo Alto Networks is delivering a new class of
security equipment which enables unprecedented visibility
and policy control of applications running on enterprise
networks regardless of port, protocol, evasive tactic or
even SSL encryption – at up to 10Gbps with no performance
degradation” said Nir Zuk, founder and CTO of Palo
Alto Networks. “We selected Cavium’s OCTEON
processor family from a number of options due to its leading
performance, unmatched hardware acceleration, top-to-bottom
scalability and lower power. Furthermore, Cavium’s
strong market momentum and processor roadmap execution make
Cavium an ideal long term silicon partner for us”.
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
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