MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., April
29, 2008 – Cavium Networks, a leading provider
of highly integrated semiconductor products that enable intelligent
processing for networking, communications, storage, and security
applications, today introduced the new OCTEON XL Express accelerator
card family. The OCTEON XL Express is an industry-leading
multi-function accelerator card that integrates hardware acceleration
for TCP, compression, de-duplication, security and IO virtualization
and is fully C and C++ programmable. This new family of accelerators
extends the reach of Cavium Networks’ high-performance
acceleration capabilities to a wide range of new and emerging
PCI-Express based systems designed for storage appliances,
L4-L7 switches, and wireless infrastructure applications.
Cavium Networks’ OCTEON XL Express Accelerators are
on display at the Interop conference in Las Vegas, Nevada
April 29 - May 1 in Cavium Networks’ booth #663.
Comprehensive Acceleration for Next Generation Data
Processing Requirements
Next Generation Data center servers, storage systems and
intelligent networking systems require advanced hardware
acceleration and virtualized peripherals with standard PCI-Express
connectivity and form factors. Today networking and storage
vendors and IT administrators have to plug-in multiple accelerator
cards and interface cards to meet their acceleration needs
of TCP, compression/decompression, de-duplication, security
and IO virtualization. Adding multiple accelerators to a
system is infeasible due to power and space constraints
and the fragmented software required to support multiple
accelerators. To meet the needs of networking and storage
vendors and IT administrators, Cavium Networks’ OCTEON
XL Express accelerator family integrates multiple acceleration
functions into a single, compact form factor.
OCTEON XL Express Features
The new OCTEON XL Express accelerators incorporate the leading
OCTEON Plus CN55XX and CN57XX Multicore MIPS64 processors.
The accelerators are available in a full-height, half-length,
single-slot form-factor, and provide a standard PCIe x8
edge connector. The cards support the OCTEON Plus CN55XX
6-core through CN57XX 12-core Multicore MIPS64 processors
with integrated HW acceleration for packet processing, Quality
of Service, TCP, compression/decompression, encryption/decryption,
iSCSI, RAID 5, 6 and De-Duplication.
Key additional features of the OCTEON XL Express Accelerator
Cards Include:
• Dual ECC-protected Mini-DIMM DDR2 sockets providing
up to 4GB capacity
• Four RJ-45 or Four SFP interfaces for either copper
or fiber GbE connectivity options
• Very low power consumption
• Compact flash socket for dense on-board storage
OCTEON XL Express accelerators provide industry-leading
performance of 1.2 GB/s of compression and decompression.
The card also offers up to 2GB/s for Data de-duplication,
a performance level not offered by any other competing solution.
Additionally, it includes support for the latest security
protocols such as IEEE 1619 data-at-rest security (AES-XTS)
and Elliptical Curve Cryptography (ECC).
OCTEON XL Express Accelerator Card Software Support
The OCTEON XL Express family is supported by a rich set
of x86 host system software, including a portable PCI-e
driver with standard LINUX support and C-language API’s
for offloading compression/decompression, RAID, De-Duplication,
SSL, TCP, and crypto processing. For users looking to add
proprietary processing features to the OCTEON XL Express
accelerators, a full software development kit for OCTEON
Multi-core MIPS64 processors is available. Cavium Networks’
Software Development Kit includes Linux, GNU tool-chain,
GDB development environment and popular third party tool-chain
and development support that enables thousands of C/C++
applications to be easily ported. For fast-path and data-plane
applications OCTEON also supports a C-language, high-performance
simple executive. Additionally, Cavium Networks provides
APIs or production quality software toolkits for IPsec,
iSCSI, SSL, SRTP, TCP and RAID. OCTEON is also supported
by third-party standard operating systems including Linux®,
WindRiver® Linux or VxWorks®, and MontaVista®
Linux.
Availability
Samples for OCTEON Plus-based PCI Express 4 GE XL accelerator
cards are available in Q2, 2008. For pricing please contact
Cavium Networks.
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 20 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
