Parties to work together to accelerate virtualized BBUs based on General-Purpose Processors
SAN JOSE, CA
December 8th, 2016
- Today, Cavium, Inc. (NASDAQ: CAVM), a leading provider of semiconductor
products that enable intelligent processing for Enterprise, Telco, MSP and
cloud data centers, announced an agreement with China Unicom to accelerate the
design and development of Virtualized BBU and provide a path for 5G adoption.
The collaboration will focus on commercializing vBBU systems using general
purpose hardware based on Cavium’s ThunderX®
workload optimized data server processors which are built on ARM architecture.
In addition, Cavium has joined the China Unicom CORD Industry Alliance and will
drive adoption of open source architecture and
technologies in China together with China Unicom.
China
Unicom and Cavium will work together on new innovative fronthaul solutions,
system architecture and vBBU performance and deployment. This collaboration
allows Cavium to align with China Unicom’s commercial networks technology
development and innovation, research feasibility of Next Generation Virtualized
Wireless Access Network, perform lab and field testing, evaluate results, drive
deployment of developed technologies into commercial network, carry out lab and
field performance test and assessment, accelerate pilot and application of new
technical innovations in real-world networks.
“We
are very pleased to collaborate with China Unicom in this critical area. As
network capacity continues to be stretched and the user demands continue to
grow the industry is faced with significant challenges which cannot be solved
by traditional means,” said Raj Singh General Manager of the Wireless Broadband
Group at Cavium. “The use of advanced general purpose hardware such as Cavium’s
ThunderX workload optimized data severs allows us to provide a highly scalable
virtualized solution for these requirements.”
“Virtualized network based on general purpose hardware and open source
technologies represents the overall direction for future network changes. China
Unicom partners with Cavium, a leader in virtualized BBU technology
field, to drive R&D of virtualization products based on general
purpose processors, thus
laying a solid foundation for building new generation of network infrastructure,” said Dr. Tang Xiongyan, CTO of Network
Technology Research Institute, China Unicom.
About
Cavium
Cavium,
Inc. (NASDAQ: CAVM), offers a broad portfolio of integrated, software
compatible processors ranging in performance from 1Gbps to 100Gbps that enable
secure, intelligent functionality in Enterprise, Data Center,
Broadband/Consumer, Mobile and Service Provider Equipment, highly programmable
switches which scale to 3.2Tbps and Ethernet and Fibre Channel adapters up to
100Gbps. Cavium processors are supported by ecosystem partners that provide
operating systems, tools and application support, hardware reference designs
and other products. Cavium is headquartered in San Jose, CA with design centers
in California, Massachusetts, India, China and Taiwan. For more information,
please visit: http://www.cavium.com.
Media
Contact
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Atondo
Sr.
Marketing Communications Manager
Telephone:
+1 408-943-7417
Email:
angel.atondo@cavium.com
