Sumitomo
Electric Networks Inc. Selects OCTEON™ to Power Triple-Play
Home Gateways for Next-Generation Fiber to the Home Service
Dual-core Cavium Networks OCTEON processor
enables market-leading performance and service deployment
flexibility for the rapidly growing FTTx market
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., July 16, 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 Sumitomo Electric Networks Inc., a leading
provider of broadband access equipment for major carrier customers
in the Japan market, has developed their flagship, gigabit
rate, next generation home gateway based on the Cavium Networks
OCTEON CN5020 processor. The OCTEON Processor Family provides
a scalable solution with leading performance per dollar and
performance per watt for next-generation high-performance,
triple-play gateways.
As bandwidth requirements for home access increase driven
by rich voice, video and data traffic, FTTx (fiber) deployment
is growing rapidly in several parts of the world including
Japan, US and Europe. In the Japan market, FTTH network
delivers gigabit rates to the home. Homes need powerful
gateways to process such high data rates along with the
associated IPv6 and PPPoE protocol processing. In addition,
the home gateways need to process triple play traffic with
stringent QoS requirements, support IPsec and WiFi functionality
along with carrier class Voice over IP and IPTV services.
OCTEON CN5020 dual core communications processor was chosen
by Sumitomo Electric Networks Inc. to provide the heart
of their next generation home gateway based on the ability
to meet these stringent performance and quality demands
of major Japanese service provider networks.
“We benchmarked a number of solutions and the OCTEON
CN5020 was clearly the best solution for us,” said
Tsuyoshi Kawano, President, Sumitomo Electric Networks Inc.
“Our product has to meet or exceed the highly demanding
price, power and performance requirements needed for mass
deployment of fiber to the home broadband networks. Cavium’s
dual core processor enabled us to fulfill these requirements
along with ease of programming and providing headroom for
future deployment of additional services.”
“We are honored to be selected by Sumitomo Electric
Networks Inc. for their next generation gateway,”
said Syed Ali, President and CEO, Cavium Networks. “The
advanced feature requirements of FTTx networks such as gigabit
rate IPv4 and IPv6 performance to the home, multiple levels
of QoS, excellent small packet performance, VoIP, 802.11
WLAN as well the as many proprietary features means that
basic, off the shelf processors simply cannot do the job.
Our highly integrated OCTEON Plus System-on-Chip processor
with dual custom MIPS64 cores, essential hardware acceleration
features, built in security delivers leading performance
within stringent cost and power constraints for these rigorous
requirements.”
The OCTEON CN50XX family offers the choice of 1 or 2 custom
64-bit MIPS core devices, operating at 300-700MHz frequencies
with multiple software and pin compatible processor options.
Along with the best in class processor cores, the OCTEON
CN50XX provides an integrated 128KB L2 cache, QoS, TCP,
packet and security co-processing in hardware with a rich
set of interfaces such as TDM/PCM, multiple Gigabit Ethernet
interfaces, PCI, USB 2.0 and many others. With these advanced
features, competitive price points and low power consumption
the OCTEON CN50XX delivers an unparalleled solution for
the rapidly growing high bandwidth broadband deployments
in Japan, North America and Europe.
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.
