SAN JOSE, Calif.
and SHANGHAI, June 27, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Cavium, Inc.
(NASDAQ: CAVM), a leading provider of semiconductor products that
enable secure and intelligent processing for enterprise, data
center, wired and wireless networking, and China Unicom today
announced a targeted program for testing 5G target use cases on
M-CORD SDN/NFV platform by using Cavium silicon-based white box
hardware in M-CORD racks populated with ThunderX® ARM-based data
center COTS servers and XPliant® programmable SDN Ethernet
switch-based white box switches.
China Unicom and Cavium will shortly commence trials in
several locations in mainland China to explore the new
service.
Cavium and China Unicom will demonstrate Multi-access Edge
Computing (MEC) use cases developed through previously announced
collaboration with China Unicom utilizing the ON.Lab M-CORD (Mobile
Central Office Re-architected as data center) SDN/NFV platform at
the Mobile World Congress Shanghai from Jun
28th – Jun
30th 2017. The conference will take place at the
Shanghai New International Expo Centre (SNIEC), in the China United
Network Communications Group Co., Ltd ("China Unicom") booth at
stand location W4.B20.
This M-CORD SDN/NFV software platform and hardware rack
are fully integrated with virtualized and disaggregated mobile
infrastructure elements from the edge of the Radio Access Network
(RAN) to distributed mobile core and the ONOS and XOS SDN and
orchestration software. It allows for a virtually turn-key
operation in any central office or edge data center for a full NFV
C-RAN deployment. The solution is a full Cavium powered rack
combining the ThunderX® ARM based data center servers with the
award winning highly programmable XPliant Ethernet leaf and spine
SDN switches which enable a compelling platform for
M-CORD.
"We are very excited to collaborate with China Unicom to
explore 5G target use cases leveraging the M-CORD SDN/NFV platform
and to work towards field deployment. A homogenous hardware
architecture fully optimized for NFV and 5G functions is a key
pre-requisite for field deployments," said Raj Singh, Vice
President & General Manager of the Network & Communication
Group at Cavium. "This differentiated and highly scalable
implementation of M-CORD platform using Cavium silicon based white
box hardware will allow operators such as China Unicom to rapidly
implement next generation network topologies."
"Our collaboration with Cavium continues to deliver real
progress and we are looking forward to trying M-CORD and
virtualized RAN implementation in our network," said Dr. Tang
Xiongyan, Chief Scientist of Network Technology Research Institute,
China Unicom. "We believe that our partnership will provide
significant benefits to both parties."
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/.
About China Unicom
China Unicom was officially established on 15 October 2008, and is committed to forging
itself into a world-leading innovative ICT service provider. As of
2015, China Unicom is ranked 207 among the Fortune Global 500. As a
leading operator providing both fixed-line and mobile services in
China, the subscriber number of
fixed service and mobile service is more than 300 million, and its
service covers 31 provincial branches and 7 overseas operations. It
has about 400,000 employees. For more information about China
Unicom, please
visit http://www.chinaunicom.com.cn
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