Cavium Networks (NASDAQ: CAVM) is a provider of
highly integrated semiconductor processors that enable intelligent networking, communications, storage, video and security applications. Cavium Networks offers a broad portfolio of integrated, software compatible processors ranging in performance from 10+ Mbps to 40Gbps that enable secure, intelligent funtionality in Enterprise, Data-Center, Broadband/Consumer and Access and Service Provider equipment. Cavium Networks’ processors are supported by ecosystem partners that provide operating systems, tools and application support, hardware reference designs and other services. Cavium Networks is headquartered in Mountain View, CA with design team locations in California, Massachusetts and India.
Customers and Target Markets
Cavium Networks’ products have been designed-in by the World's leading networking, wireless, storage
and security vendors. Cavium Networks' design wins are at companies such as Alcatel-Lucent, Aruba Networks, Cisco, Citrix, F5 Networks Furukawa Electric, GE Fanuc, IBM, Juniper, Motorola ECC, Netgear, Nokia, Radisys, Sofaware, Sonicwall, and Qualcomm.
Target Markets
Cavium Networks’ products are used in a wide
variety of networking applications including:
Enterprise Networks: Routers, Security
Appliance, WAN Optimization, and Enterprise
Switch.
Data Centers: Application Delivery Switch, XML
Gateway, and Server Offload.
Broadband and Consumer: Broadband Router,
Triple Play Gateway, Retail and Small Office Wired
and WLAN Router, VoIP Phone and Network
Storage.
Access and Service Provider: Security Gateway,
Session Border Controller, Router, and Mobile
3G/4G Infrastructure.
Storage: FC to IP Router, Disc Arrays, Switches,
and TCP, compression, De-duplication and
Security Offload.
Video Conferencing: full 1080p with Sub-frame
Latency.
Connected Home of Office Devices: Broadband Multi-nedia Gateway, Connected
Picture Frame andIntelligent Network Attached
Storage.
netHD: Video and game distribution via Ethernet,
WiFi, Powerline and G.hn.
Embedded Video Processing: Telemedicine,
Distance Learning, Video Conferencing,
Teleprescence and Wireless Electronic News.
netHD: HD IP Cameras, Multi-channel, and IP
Video Servers.
Awards
Cavium Networks has received numerous awards
recognizing the product line and company
performance, including:
2009 Global Semiconductor Alliance Favorite Analyst Semiconductor Company
2008 Global Semiconductor Alliance Most Respected Emerging Public Semiconductor Company
2008 Deloitte's Technology Fast 50 Winner for
Silicon Valley Software and Information
Technology (IT) companies
2007 Fabless Semiconductor Association Favorite
Fabless Picks
2006 Cisco Systems Excellence in Technology
Award
2006 SonicWALL Supplier of the Year Award
2006, 2004 & 2003 Fabless Semiconductor
Association Most Respected Private Company
WorldWide
2005 Fabless Semiconductor Association
Outstanding Financial Performance by a Private
Company
2005, 2004 & 2003 KPMG and AlwaysOn List of
Top 100 Private Companies
2005 & 2004 EDN Best 100 Product of the Year
(OCTEON)
2004 & 2003 AnalogZone Product of the Year
(NITROX & GOLDEN GATE)
2004 & 2002 Product Awards at the Network
System Design Conference (OCTEON & NITROX)
2002 Microprocessor Report Best Security
Processor (NITROX)
Products
Cavium Networks’ portfolio includes:
OCTEON® Multicore MIPS64 Processors: Includes OCTEON II CN68XX and CN63XX, and
OCTEON Plus CN58XX, CN57XX, CN56XX, CN55XX, CN54XX, CN52XX and CN50XX SoC
processors. These processors provide a scalable
range from one to thirty-two cnMIPS™ cores on
a single chip along with the most advanced
networking, security and application hardware
acceleratio. The cnMIPS™ core is Cavium’s
custom implementation of MIPS64 release 2,
optimized for networking, and services with very
low power consumption. Application hardware
acceleration engines for QoS, packet processing,
TCP, compression, encryption, RAID,
de-duplication and pattern matching allow the
family to deliver unmatched scalability,
performance and integration in a fuly compatible
manner from 100 Mbps to full-duplex 40 Gbps of
network performance. Flexible, standards-based
I/O’s including gigabit Ethernet, 10 gigabit
Ethernet, PCI Express Gen 1&2, USB2.0, serial
Rapid I/O (sRIOTM) and Interlaken enable
flexible, high-bandwith network and system
connectivity.
NITROX® DPI Layer 7 Content Processors: Includes NITROX DPI CN17XX processor and
board family. These products provide leading
L7 content processing performance with
PCI-Express connectivity for enterprise routers
and switches, data center networking appliances,
integrated security appliances and service
provider infrastructrue. It includes innovative
deep-packet inspection technology. The NITROX
DPI CN17XX family includes four different
products that range in performance from 4 to 20
Gbps in a software compatible manner.
NITROX® Security Processors: Includes four
families of security processors, NITROX, NITROX
Lite, NITROX II and NITROX PX span in performance from 50 Mbps to 10 Gbps of IPsec,
SSL WLAN security, and 1K to 40K sessions/sec.
These products provide a high degree of flexibility,
hardware scalability and software compatibility, as
well as the highest performance in the marketplace.
ECONA™ ARM Core Processors: Includes three
product lines for connected home and office
applications. The ECONA CNS1XXX and CNS2XXX
provide an integrated ARM CPU, comprehensive
I/Os and hardware offload blocks for low BOM cost
broadband and consumer applications. The ECONA
CNS3XXX family of highly integrated ARM-based
SoC processors offer a rich set of integrated
hardware accelerators and a range of I/Os for
glueless voice, video and data connectivity. The
CNS3XXX sophisticated power management
techniques enable super low-power operation
starting at less than 1 Watt.
PureVu™ Video Processors: Includes the
CNW3XXX and CNW5XXX video processors and
netHD Reference design Kit’s. The PureVu
CNW5XXX integrates dual ARM11 processors with
the industry’s lowest latency H.264, multistream
codecs supporting up to 1080P video processing at
60 Hz frame rates, as well as security and graphics
accelerators. Applications include networked home
video distribution, Connected TV, gaming,
Consumer Appliances, Video Conferencing and
numerous interactive video applications. The netHD
design kit’s provide full solutions for connected
home and industrial video applications.
Accelerator Boards: Includes security accelerator
and multifunction boards for security, compression
and TCP applications that span from 50 Mbps to
10 Gbps in a variety of form factors including
PCI/PCI-X and PCI-Express add-in cards and Gigabit Ethernet NICs.
FIPS 140-2 Level 2 and 3 Acceleration Boards: Includes FIPS 140-2 Level 2 and 3 compliant
security accelerator boards for customers with the
highest level of security requirements. This
scalable product family offers the best
performance and price/performance to OEM
customers targeting the highly security conscious government, financial and healthcare markets.
Executive Management
Cavium Networks is led by a seasoned management
team with an average of over 20 years experience in
developing and bringing to market state of the art
semiconductor products.
Syed Ali, President & CEO. Previously at:
PMC-Sierra, Malleable Technologies (Founder),
and Samsung
Arthur Chadwick, Vice President of Finance &
Administration and Chief Financial Officer.
Previously at: Pinnacle Systems
Rajiv Khemani, Vice President and General
Manager, Networking & Communications Division.
Previously at: Intel, NetApp and Sun Microsystems
Anil Jain, Corporate Vice President of IC
Engineering. Previously at: Compaq, DEC (Alpha
Design Team)
Muhammad Raghib Hussain, CTO & Corporate
Vice President of Software. Previously at: Cisco
Systems and VPNet
Amer Haider, Vice President, Corporate and
Business Development. Joined Cavium Networks
in 2001.
Andrew Rava, Vice President of Sales and Field
Applications. Previously at: Broadcom and Vitesse
Syed Zaheer, Vice President of Operations.
Previously at: IDT
Implementation Team
Cavium Networks has assembled a world class IC development team with experience in developing high performance networking, storage, communication, video and security processors at DEC/Compaq, Sun, C-cube and Intel. Cavium Networks software team has extensive experience in bringing to market leading products at companies like Cisco, Juniper, Alcatel and others.
Investors
Cavium Networks is a publicly held company listed
on NASDAQ with the ticker symbol CAVM.
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