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Cavium Networks Bolsters Mobile Infrastructure Platforms Market Position With Octeon Processor Selection by SamsungJun 20, 2011 (Close-Up Media via COMTEX) -- Cavium Networks, a provider of semiconductor products that enable intelligent processing for networking, communications, and the digital home, announced that it is accelerating mass deployment of its latest Octeon processors through collaboration for 3G/4G systems with Samsung Electronics, a network solution provider. "The demand for secure and intelligent mobile data is growing at a record pace, and the telecom industry is looking for a simple and cost-effective way for the evolution from 3G/WiMAX to LTE/WiMAX 2," said YJ Kim, GM, Infrastructure Processor Group, Cavium Networks. "We are delighted to have Samsung as a customer and enable compelling functionality and performance in their 3G/4G systems." Octeon Processors are ideal for 4G wireless solutions including Base stations and Packet Core environments, which the Company said requires levels of scalability, performance, security and packet inspection. Cavium's line of Octeon Processors from 1 to 32 cores with integrated 3G/4G hardware accelerators are optimized for cost, performance and power for these demanding 4G requirements. According to a release, the Cavium Octeon processor family is the industry's broadest and highest performance Multi-core MIPS64 processor family with price points that address application performance ranging from 1Gbps to 40+Gbps in a single chip. The Octeon processor family consists of processors with 1 to 32 high-performance cores in a single chip with integrated networking interfaces and industry hardware acceleration for packet processing, quality of service, TCP, Security, compression / decompression and DPI. The Octeon Processor has been chosen by many tier-1 TEMs for Mobile Infrastructure Platforms due to 3G, and WiMAX, LTE Layer 2 to Layer 7 capabilities. More Information: www.caviumnetworks.com ((Comments on this story may be sent to [email protected])) |