Feb 26, 2018   SOURCE: PR NewsWire

Cavium Showcases Next-Generation 5G Radio Access and Core Networks, Telco Cloud and Edge Infrastructure Solutions at Mobile World Congress 2018

SAN JOSE, Calif. and BARCELONA, Spain, Feb. 26, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Cavium(TM), Inc., a leading provider of semiconductor products that enable secure and intelligent processing for enterprise, data center, and wired and wireless networking, will showcase a number of technologies incorporating the company's award winning OCTEON, OCTEON Fusion-M, OCTEON TX(TM) and ThunderX2 SoCs at Mobile World Congress 2018. The conference will start on Monday February 26 and run through Thursday March 1, 2018, in Barcelona, Spain.

Cavium will present its vision for next-generation 5G Radio Access Networks, FWA and IoT deployments, SDN core networks, and telco cloud and edge infrastructure solutions. The company's MWC presence will include several networking demonstrations and will highlight its key contributions to industry associations, such as the Telecom Infra Project's (TIP) OpenCellular program and the Open Network Foundation's CORD program.

"Cavium is well aware that there is not a 'one-size-fits-all' 5G NR deployment model," said Raj Singh, Vice President and General Manager of Cavium's Network and Communications Group. "Instead different operators will have different approaches. Some will be incremental and co-exist with LTE, some will focus on specific use cases such as fixed wireless access. Others will incorporate split RAN architectures and core network virtualization. Whichever approach an operator decides to implement, Cavium has the technology to make it work."

Cavium will host visitors and present live demonstrations in Hall 2, booth number 2M61. The following technologies will be covered:

    --  5G NR solutions - next generation OCTEON Fusion-M and OCTEON TX silicon
        for basestations and remote radio heads, new 3GPP protocol stack split
        implementations, massive MIMO capabilities.
    --  Fixed Wireless Access base stations - live demonstration featuring an
        OEM-designed 3-sector eNodeB incorporating a single CNF73xx processor
        running LTE software based on Cavium's L1-L3 stack.
    --  ONF M-CORD IoT use case - SDN, NFV, C-RAN and MEC live demonstration
        featuring a pre-5G IoT use case running on the ONF-defined open source
        M-CORD platform. This proof of concept (POC) demonstration features the
        following Cavium silicon and software implementations:
        --  Distributed Unit (DU) - OCTEON Fusion-M based intelligent radio head
            running Cavium's implementation of 3GPP fronthaul split options 2
            and 5 LTE PHY.
        --  Central Unit (CU) - ThunderX2 baseband implementation running
            Cavium's implementation of 3GPP fronthaul split options 2 and 5 LTE
            stack software.
        --  Core Network - ThunderX2 servers hosting a vEPC, ONF XOS
            orchestration software and ONOS-controlled XPliant® programmable
            SDN switch fabric.
    --  Production Version of the Telecom Infra Project Connect - LTE Base
        station
        --  Announced in 2016, the Telecom Infra Project (TIP) Connect-LTE base
            station design is now ready for the first round of field trials.
            This live demonstration features a commercial prototype Connect-LTE
            eNodeB featuring the OCTEON Fusion-M CNF7130 baseband processor and
            Cavium's TIP-contributed LTE stack software. The demonstration also
            includes an OCTEON TX-based edge server running a vEPC and open
            source edge applications providing content caching, firewall and
            media server functions.
    --  Universal CPE
        --  Live demonstration of OCTEON TX ARMv8-based uCPE white box with
            commercial NFV applications.

Other Cavium-enabled networking demonstrations will be present at the Conference, including:

    --  Virtualized Mobile Core Network - a complete end-to-end containerized
        mobile network with live traffic on commercial UEs, will be shown in the
        ARM booth (Hall 6 Stand 6E30)Network Slicing - end-to-end network
        slicing running Netsia's ProgRAN on M-CORD.  Orchestrated by ONAP and
        delivered through XPliant P4-enabled switches with OCTEON Fusion-M
        remote radio units.  This demonstration can be found at the Open
        Networking Foundation booth in Hall 5 number 5I61 and the Netsia booth
        in Hall 1 number 1C40.

For more information on Cavium's products or to schedule a meeting with Cavium at MWC 2018, please contact your local sales account manager or Lilly Ly (lly@cavium.com). Please enter Meeting Request at MWC 2018 in the subject line.

About Cavium

Cavium, Inc. (NASDAQ: CAVM) offers a broad portfolio of infrastructure solutions for compute, security, storage, switching, connectivity, and baseband processing. Cavium's highly integrated multi-core SoC products deliver software compatible solutions across low to high performance points enabling secure and intelligent functionality in Enterprise, Data Center and Service Provider Equipment. Cavium processors and solutions are supported by an extensive ecosystem of operating systems, tools, application stacks, hardware-reference designs, and other products. Cavium is headquartered in San Jose, CA with design centers in California, Massachusetts, India, Israel, China, and Taiwan. For more information about the Company, please visit: http://www.cavium.com/.

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