Cavium's 48 Core Workload Optimized ThunderX™_SC Processors Enable Next Generation Fully Secure Data Centers

SAN JOSE, Calif., April 20, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Cavium, Inc., (NASDAQ: CAVM), a leading provider of products that enable secure and intelligent processing for enterprise, data center, wired and wireless networking will demonstrate its 48 core, dual socket capable ThunderX_SC family of ARMv8-A based processors with integrated security accelerators. The demonstration will be showcased at Cavium's booth #S2726 during RSA Conference, April 20-24^th at the Moscone Center in San Francisco.

The Cloud is growing exponentially with the increased adoption of PaaS, SaaS, and IaaS resulting in data centers hosting a large number of users and applications with different levels of security requirements on the same underlying infrastructure.  Physical resources such as processors, memory, storage and network are physically remote and are shared among all users making security a prime concern. In addition, a number of high profile attacks on Cloud Data Centers and security breaches are driving the need for further securing cloud compute and telco infrastructure.

Many of the existing servers in the market today typically implement complex security algorithms in software which results in poor performance per watt and performance per dollar.  The addition of hardware acceleration for widely used security protocols and algorithms significantly improves both performance per watt and performance per dollar metrics.

ThunderX_SC is built to meet the demanding security needs of next generation fully secure cloud and telco infrastructure. It integrates Cavium's industry leading NITROX^® technology along with other hardware accelerators enabling the ThunderX_SC family of server SoCs to deliver unmatched performance for Layer 3 to Layer 7 security. The ThunderX_SC includes hundreds of accelerator engines for transport/transaction level security such as IPsec, SSL and application level security such as firewalls, IPS/IDS, Anti-virus, Anti-Malware and Deep Packet Inspection. ThunderX_SC  supports  industry standard cryptography acceleration APIs through OpenSSL and provides kernel cryptography acceleration for protocols including IPSec, which is widely supported by leading Linux and FreeBSD distributions enabling seamless migration.

Secure links are required to connect to cloud data centers for access to applications like webmail, network file sharing and other common business applications. IPSec and SSL VPNs are also required to provide secure remote access to corporate server resources. For secure inter and intra-rack connectivity, secure protocols like IPSec and VPN tunneling are deployed for an added layer of security. In case of service provider networks and cloud, IPsec is also commonly deployed to encrypt user data traffic over backhaul links for the wired and wireless infrastructure. The ThunderX_SC meets the varied security needs of cloud data center and service provider workloads to build optimized and energy efficient front-end web server, mail server, file server, proxy server, application server and centralized C-RAN server with integrated security.

"The rapid adoption of Cloud Infrastructure for Data Center and Telco mandates security at every node," Gopal Hegde, VP/GM Data Center Processor Group. "Cavium is a leader in security. The ThunderX_SC SKU integrates our industry leading security IP into best in class ARMv8-A based ThunderX Data Center processors enabling world class solutions for secure cloud and telco data centers with industry leading performance/$ and performance/watt."

The ThunderX product family includes multiple workload optimized SKUs for next generation Data Center and Networking Applications including the ThunderX_SC  SKUs for secure data center workloads. The ThunderX family of processors features high performance custom cores, single and dual socket configurations, high memory bandwidth, large memory capacity, integrated hardware accelerators, integrated feature rich high bandwidth network and storage IO, fully virtualized core and IO, and scalable high bandwidth, low latency Ethernet fabric.  The ThunderX processor family is fully compliant with ARMv8-A architecture specifications as well as ARM's SBSA and SBBR standards and is widely supported by industry leading OS, Hypervisor and Software tool and application vendors.

Availability 
Samples and Reference software and hardware platforms are available today.

About Cavium 
Cavium 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 100Mbps to 100Gbps 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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