Cavium Networks Demos Solutions for 2.5/3G, WiMAX and LTE Applications

Cavium Networks, a provider of integrated semiconductor products that enable intelligent processing in networking, communications and the digital home, showcased OCTEON II multi-core and ODYSSEY 4G/LTE DSP processor solutions for 3G, WiMAX and LTE applications at the Mobile World Congress 2011.

 The Cavium processors have already been adopted in 3G, WiMAX and LTE client and infrastructure equipment including client USB dongles, LTE Base Stations (eNodeBs) and Evolved Packet Core (EPC) devices, 3G Base stations, Cell Site Aggregators, Radio Network Controllers (RNC), Packet Data Serving Node (PDSN), xGSNs, Femtocells, Femto Gateways, WiMax base stations and ASN Gateways, company officials said.

Mobile operators are expanding their offerings to meet the emerging needs from customers. Broadband players want to monetize consumers' demand for media, services and bandwidth, but they face a number of challenges when they look for quick rollout infrastructure upgrades. As bandwidth increases by 10 to 40 fold, mobile broadband operators are looking for solutions that are interoperable, reduce costs, and also meet stringent power requirements.

Cavium Network’s OCTEON II processors have several capabilities including the revolutionary Deep Packet Inspection, In-service Software Upgrade, Authentik and PowerOptimizer technologies, company officials said.

The OCTEON II product portfolio includes multi-core MIPS64 based processors ranging from 1 to 32 cores on a single chip. It provides control processing, integrated networking interfaces and industry leading hardware acceleration for packet processing, routing, quality of service, TCP, Security, compression / decompression, MAC layer acceleration and deep packet inspection (DPI).

At the Mobile World Congress 2011, companies such as Advantech, Airspan, IXIA, Kontron, MontaVista, Picochip and Tata Elxsi, will be demonstrating some of their solutions which are developed in association with major customers based on OCTEON family of processors. Picochip, in partnership with Cavium Networks, demonstrated what the companies call as the “first end-to-end LTE Femtocell” using both OCTEON and ODYSSEY product lines from Cavium.