SAN JOSE, Calif., April 27, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Cavium, Inc.,
(NASDAQ: CAVM), a leading provider of semiconductor products that
enable intelligent processing for enterprise, data center, wired
and wireless networking today announced that it has enabled the
open source OpenWRT Linux distribution for embedded devices to run
on the Cavium OCTEON III CN70/71XX 1 to 4 core processors. Cavium
will demonstrate OpenWRT on the OCTEON III router/gateway reference
design at Interop, Las Vegas, 2015
on booth 2027.
The feature-rich OpenWRT software package is
performance-optimized for the Cavium CN71XX router/gateway
reference board and will be included free of charge in the Router
Reference Design Kit (RDK). This will enable ODMs/OEMs to
significantly shorten hardware and software design cycles while
delivering best-in-class home/SMB wireless routers and security
appliance products. Optimized to leverage Cavium OCTEON III
acceleration engines, the OpenWRT for OCTEON offers more CPU
headroom for customized services, thereby reducing system costs.
Compared to software-only solutions, the Cavium hardware
acceleration enables line rate performance using far less CPU
resource, 3 times better OpenVPN performance and 18 times better
OpenSSL performance.
The OpenWRT for OCTEON includes the following features:
- Optimized networking stack leveraging Cavium networking
acceleration engine
- OpenVPN and OpenSSL packages accelerated by Cavium security
acceleration engines
- Optional SNORT & Suricata IPS Security packages
- Integrated 802.11a/b/g/n & 802.11ac Wi-Fi drivers
- Support of 4G LTE USB modems
- Easy and flexible configurations through web GUI interface
- Support for Barrier Breaker and Chaos Calmer OpenWRT
releases
"We are excited to bring together the powerful network
processing capabilities of our quad core OCTEON SoCs, and the
flexibility of the feature rich open source OpenWRT software. Our
optimized implementation of OpenWRT, leveraging OCTEON's unique
hardware accelerators for packet processing, QOS, DPI and security,
turbocharges the performance. This enables our customers to rapidly
deliver formidable enterprise class secure router to the SMB
market," said Venkat Sundaresan,
Director, Cavium Infrastructure Processor Group.
Several OEMs/ODMs are developing their latest products using the
optimized OpenWRT software package, taking full advantage of the
OCTEON III hardware accelerations.
"ITUS Networks has been working with Cavium to maximize the
performance of our new Shield product line using OpenWRT and the
Cavium OCTEON III processor, to provide Enterprise-class antivirus,
intrusion prevention and content filtering for home and small
business networks," said Daniel
Ayoub, Founder and CEO of ITUS Networks.
The OCTEON III CN70XX/CN71XX families of Multi-Core cnMIPS64
Processors target high-end retail, SMB and entry-level enterprise
platforms for networking, security, storage and control plane
applications. The families integrate single to quad cnMIPS64 v3
cores with virtualization capabilities and hypervisor support. The
highly-integrated SoCs also include a rich set of I/O's and
Cavium's advanced hardware acceleration for deep packet inspection
(DPI). The CN70XX/CN71XX families deliver the most optimized
solution for power, performance, and price in next-generation
applications.
The OpenWRT software for OCTEON III is open source and will be
provided free of charge to Cavium's customers.
About Cavium, Inc.
Cavium (NASDAQ: CAVM) is a leading
provider of highly integrated semiconductor products that enable
intelligent processing in enterprise, data center, cloud and wired
and wireless service provider applications. Cavium offers a broad
portfolio of integrated, software-compatible processors ranging in
performance from 100 Mbps to 100 Gbps that enable secure,
intelligent functionality in enterprise, data-center,
broadband/consumer and access and service provider equipment.
Cavium's processors are supported by ecosystem partners that
provide operating systems, tool support, reference designs and
other services. Cavium's principal office is in San Jose, CA with design team locations in
California, Massachusetts, India and China. For more information, please visit:
http://www.cavium.com.
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