Cavium
Networks and Wind River Expand Strategic Partnership
for Networking, Communications and Security Applications
Wind River Provides Out-of-the-Box,
Optimized Support for Cavium Networks OCTEON Processors
with New VxWorks 6.6 SMP Product
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. Oct.
30, 2007 – Cavium Networks (NASDAQ:
CAVM), a leading provider of highly integrated
semiconductor products that enable intelligent
processing for networking, communications, storage
and security applications today announced an expanded
technology partnership with Wind River Systems,
Inc. (NASDAQ: WIND), the global leader in Device
Software Optimization (DSO). Wind River’s
VxWorks 6.6 SMP product will include out-of-the-box,
optimized support for Cavium Networks’ OCTEON
processors in its initial worldwide release. Combined
with Wind River Platform for Network Equipment,
Linux Edition support, Wind River On-Chip Debugging
JTAG support, this important step will provide
comprehensive Wind River product support for the
OCTEON processor family. The Wind River DSO portfolio
and Cavium Networks’ OCTEON Multi-core processors
are designed into and targeted for SOHO, SME and
enterprise networking, wireless infrastructure
and service provider OEM equipment.
“Wind River is investing heavily in our
partnership with Cavium Networks due to their
leading position in the networking and communications
processor market and a broad set of common tier-1
OEM customers,” said John Bruggeman, chief
marketing officer for Wind River. “We are
pleased to offer standard, optimized VxWorks 6.6
symmetric multi-processing (SMP) support for their
multi-core processors.”
“Through the VxWorks 6.6 SMP operating system
solution, Wind River is demonstrating a leadership
role in real-time, deterministic SMP operating
systems and we see significant market demand for
its multi-core capabilities going forward,”
said Rajiv Khemani, vice president of marketing
and sales for Cavium Networks. “Cavium plans
to continue our strong relationship with Wind
River through product and roadmap alignment as
Wind River’s extensive technology complements
the breadth of Cavium’s multi-core, high-performance
OCTEON processor line.”
About Cavium Networks
Cavium Networks is a 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.
About Wind River
Wind River is the global leader in Device Software
Optimization (DSO). Wind River enables companies
to develop, run and manage device software faster,
better, at lower cost and more reliably. Wind
River platforms are pre-integrated, fully standardized,
enterprise-wide development solutions. They reduce
effort, cost and risk and optimize quality and
reliability at all phases of the device software
development process, from concept to deployed
product.
Founded in 1981, Wind River is headquartered in
Alameda, California, with operations worldwide.
To learn more, visit Wind River at
www.windriver.com
or call 1-800-872-4977.
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2007.
