SAN JOSE, Calif. and
BARCELONA, Spain, Feb. 26, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Cavium™, Inc.,
a leading provider of semiconductor products that enable secure and
intelligent processing for enterprise, data center, wired and
wireless networking, announced a collaboration with Sprint
Corporation, a national carrier in the
United States, using Packet, a cloud service provider,
public cloud based on Cavium ThunderX2 Arm®-based
servers and virtualized mobile core network orchestrated on
Containers.
Sprint's testing has demonstrated promising total cost of
ownership (TCO) advantages over conventional architecture. A live
demonstration of this testing, including a complete end-to-end
containerized mobile network with live traffic on commercial UE,
will be shown at Mobile World Congress 2018 in Barcelona, Spain, at both the Arm booth (Hall
6 Stand 6E30) and Cavium booth (Hall 2 Stand 2M61).
The containerized mobile core network (cEPC) runs at Packet, a
commercially available public cloud, on Cavium ThunderX2 Arm-based
servers. The radio access network is a 3GPP compliant split-RAN
implementation with both the vBBU (virtualized baseband unit) and
the remote radio unit running on Cavium silicon (ThunderX2 and
OCTEON Fusion-M® processors).
"We see a great opportunity driving better economics and TCO
with increased power savings using Arm-based servers, thereby
enabling further distribution to the edge," said Aaron Hinkle, Systems Architect, Technology,
Innovation and Architecture, Sprint.
"Arm and our ecosystem of partners have been actively growing
systems, especially targeting NFV and service provider network use
cases," said Drew Henry, senior vice
president and general manager, Infrastructure Business Unit, Arm.
"This is a significant step forward in completing end-to-end
virtualized mobile network deployed on an Arm-based infrastructure
which will enable the next trillion connected devices."
"We are very excited to collaborate with Sprint to test
innovative NFV deployment scenarios and to showcase the promising
TCO and power savings live demonstrations using our ThunderX2
Arm-based servers and 3GPP compliant virtualized RAN
implementation," said Raj Singh, Vice President & General
Manager of the Network & Communication Group, Cavium. "Cavium
has been collaborating with many service providers on innovative
NFV projects both directly and in open source communities utilizing
our differentiated and highly scalable Arm-based processor and SoC
families, rich software, and hardware eco-systems, and strong
application domain expertise."
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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