Joint Reference Solution comes to Market with
Common Customer Deploying Home Networking & Network Access
Equipment
MOUNTAIN VIEW AND SAN DIEGO, Calif. December 6, 2006
– Cavium Networks, a world leader in networking,
security and embedded processor solutions, and Entropic Communications
the leading provider of digital media over coax chipsets,
today announced the availability of two market-leading reference
design platforms for products and systems targeting the distribution
of digital entertainment to and inside the home. The joint
reference design platforms are being used by OEMs developing
triple play CPE gateways and network access equipment for
service providers using coax to and inside the home.
The joint reference platforms offer OEMs ready to use production
quality designs, reduced time-to-market, high-performance,
low-power consumption and data security and integrity for
CPE and Access equipment targeting digital media networks
running on existing coaxial cabling.
There are two joint reference designs that are based on
Cavium Networks’ OCTEON™ and NITROX® Soho
processors along with Entropic’s c.LINK-270™
chipsets. The first reference design targeting home networking
has a gateway performance of over 130 Mbps and consists
of the Cavium Networks’ NITROX Soho MIPS32® processor
and Entropic’s c.LINK-270 Home Networking chipset.
The second reference design targeting network access to
the home applications consist of, Cavium Networks’
OCTEON MIPS64® CN3120 multicore network services processor
and Entropic’s c.LINK Network Access chipset. Providing
triple play data, voice and video access to the home over
coax is experiencing particularly strong growth in Japan,
Korea and other countries in Asia, with specific deployments
in multi-dwelling units (MDUs).
“Cavium Networks is pleased to partner with Entropic
Communications to bring the integration, performance and
scalability of our products to the home access and home
networking markets,” said Rajiv Khemani, VP of Marketing
at Cavium Networks.
“These platforms ensure uninterrupted video with
the performance, ease of design in and security safeguards
already integrated for incorporation into triple play service
offerings,” said John Graham, VP of Marketing at Entropic
Communications. “Cavium Networks is the only processor
vendor with market leading families for both ends of the
network enabling us to provide a complete best-of-breed
solution to our joint customers.”
Cavium Networks OCTEON & NITROX Soho Processors
The OCTEON CN31XX Processor Family includes both single
and dual core, high performance MIPS64 processors with hardware
acceleration for specialized packet handling, QoS, security,
compression/decompression and regular expression processing.
The CN3120, featured with Entropic c.Link in a Network Access
device has dual cnMIPS64 cores with networking application
performance of up to 2Gbps. These processors are ideal for
Enterprise Routers, Gateways, UTM appliances, Service cards
and Triple Play gateways. The NITROX Soho family products
are MIPS32 based system-on-a-chip processors operating at
speeds up to 200MHz providing 200 Mbps of forwarding performance
with support for integrated IPsec and SSL acceleration.
This family is ideally suited for CPEs and SOHO Routers/Gateways.
Both product families support optimized drivers for Entropic
c.Link MoCA™ chipset.
Entropic c.LINK technology
c.LINK is used in a variety of consumer broadband electronics
such as DVR and client side set-top boxes, broadband home
routers, residential gateways, Ethernet to coax bridges
and optical network termination (ONT) units to enable whole-home
distribution of digital video and entertainment over the
existing coaxial cable infrastructure. The high speed, reliability
and ubiquity of coax make it the ideal medium for networking
high-bandwidth applications such as video, without the need
for new wiring or truck rolls, a major consideration for
telco, cable and satellite service providers. c.LINK, with
a PHY data rate of 270 Mpbs, operates in the 800 –
1500 MHz frequency band, between the cable and satellite
bands, avoiding the inevitable interference issues plaguing
other technologies, mediums and consumer electronics devices.
About Cavium Networks
Cavium Networks is a world leader in security and MIPS®-based
single and multi-core processors for networking, wireless,
storage and control plane applications. Cavium Networks
offers a broad portfolio of integrated, software compatible
processors and accelerator boards ranging in performance
from 10 Mbps to 20+ Gbps that enable secure, intelligent
functionality in SOHO/SME, enterprise and service provider
network equipment. Cavium Networks processors are supported
by a rich ecosystem of software, silicon and ODM hardware
solutions from leading vendors in networking, unified threat
management (UTM), wireless, voice, operating system, Java,
motherboard and other areas. Cavium Networks is headquartered
in the heart of Silicon Valley in Mountain View, CA with
development centers in Marlborough, MA and India. For more
information, please visit: http://www.caviumnetworks.com
About Entropic Communications
Entropic Communications, Inc., is the leading developer
of LAN and WAN coax networking for home digital entertainment.
Entropic's products allow consumers to easily share digital
entertainment throughout the home by leveraging the existing
coax infrastructure to fundamentally change the way content
such as movies, music, and images are stored and networked
by the average user. For more information: www.entropic.com
Cavium Networks Contact:
Angel Atondo - Marketing
Cavium Networks
805 East Middlefield Road,
Mountain View, CA 94043
Telephone: 650-623-7033
Email: angel.atondo@caviumnetworks.com
