Combined wireless broadband solution offers
breakthrough LTE L2/L3 performance and accelerated time-to-market
for telecom equipment vendors
Barcelona, Spain, February 9, 2011 –
Cavium Networks (NASDAQ: CAVM), a leading provider of
highly integrated semiconductor products that enable intelligent
processing for networking, communications, and the digital
home, and Cavium’s PACE™ Partners Kontron
and Tata Elxsi announced today that they will showcase
a compelling, high-performance wireless broadband solution
at the Mobile World Congress 2011 in Barcelona from February
14 to 17. This solution brings together the market-leading
Cavium OCTEON II multi-core processor as part of Kontron’s
open standard hardware running Tata Elxsi’s LTE
eNodeB L2/L3 software stack.
Targeted at Macro base station manufacturers for use
in single and multi-sector LTE eNodeB products, the joint
solution offers 3GPP Release 8 compliant LTE Layer 2 and
Layer 3 processing that is capable of delivering up to
450 Mbps of aggregate throughput from a single AdvancedMC
module featuring the OCTEON® II CN6335 cnMIPS64®
6-core processor.
The combined Cavium, Kontron and Tata Elxsi LTE eNodeB
solution will be demonstrated at the following booths:
Cavium (Booth 2C05, Hall 2), Tata Elxsi (Booth 2C106,
Hall 2) and Kontron (Booth 2A28, Hall 2).
The Cavium OCTEON II CN63XX processor family provides
the highest performance and integration for next generation
3G/4G/LTE wireless base station platforms, providing up
to 9GHz of compute with a large 2MB L2 cache, DDR3 memory
controller, security acceleration for SNOW 3G and KASUMI,
TCP/IP, DPI, QoS and packet processing acceleration. Revolutionary
PowerOptimizer™ technology limits maximum power
from 7 to 17 watts from low-end to high-end. The OCTEON
II processors have been designed into a range of tier-1
OEM systems ranging from eNodeB to packet-core platforms
and services rich wireless infrastructure gateways.
The Kontron AM4211 ATCA Mezzanine Card (AMC) module can
be configured with ATCA node blades and MicroTCA platforms
(Picostation, Microstation to Macrostation). It is designed
to support 1x 10GbE to the front and software configurable
interfaces to the Fabric with either 2x PCIe x4 or SRIO
which expands its application usage when configuring systems
in combination with standards based third-party Digital
Signal Processing (DSP) AMCs.
For control plane functions the Kontron AM4211 provides
GbE on Ports 0 and 1 connected to the CN6335 processor
and is fully software compatible with previous generation
Kontron AMC packet processing modules, AM4204, AM4210
and AM4220, all based on OCTEON Plus processors from Cavium
Networks. It is configurable with the Kontron MicroTCA
1U carrier-grade platform OM6061.
Tata Elxsi has architected its LTE eNodeB L2/L3 protocol
stack to leverage the advanced hardware acceleration capabilities
available in Cavium’s OCTEON II multi-core processors,
thereby delivering market-leading performance and scalability.
The Tata Elxsi L2/L3 protocol stack also exploits the
ability of the Cavium OCTEON II to support multiple virtual
operating systems including Linux and Simple Executive
to accelerate data plane performance.
Tata Elxsi LTE eNodeB L2/L3 stack has been integrated
with 3GPP Release 8 compliant Layer-1 implementations
and tested with real UEs. The entire software stack has
been architected in a highly modular fashion to offer
flexibility to OEMs to make modifications to specific
layers of the stack with ease, if required. Tata Elxsi
also offers updates and upgrades to support newer platforms
and advanced releases like Release 9 and beyond.
“LTE Operators’ goals of maximizing coverage
and capacity, while lowering total cost of ownership,
mandate powerful solutions with small and flexible footprint
and very low power,” said YJ Kim, General Manager,
Infrastructure Processor Group at Cavium Networks. “Proven
4G wireless software expertise from Tata Elxsi and telecom
module expertise from Kontron enables breakthrough 4G
base station solutions using Cavium’s OCTEON II
processors to meet these challenging goals.”
“The speed at which we can collaborate and develop
such a powerful design speaks volumes to 4G LTE equipment
vendors who simply cannot waste any time to get to market,”
said Marc Leclaire, AMC, MicroTCA™, ATCA® Switch
product manager at Kontron. “This highlights Kontron’s
capability for the communications market – help
bring leading silicon and software innovations to market
sooner by packaging them on common open standard ATCA,
MicroTCA and AMC hardware.”
“Through this partnership with leading silicon
and hardware providers like Cavium and Kontron, Tata Elxsi
offers proven LTE software with industry-leading performance
that is both scalable and cost effective,” said
Nitin Pai, Vice President of Marketing at Tata Elxsi.
About Cavium Networks
Cavium Networks is a leading provider of highly integrated
semiconductor products that enable intelligent processing
in networking, communications and the digital home. Cavium
Networks offers a broad portfolio of integrated, software
compatible processors ranging in performance from 10 Mbps
to 40 Gbps that enable secure, intelligent functionality
in enterprise, data-center, broadband/consumer and access
& service provider equipment. Cavium Networks processors
are supported by ecosystem partners that provide operating
systems, tool support, reference designs and other services.
Cavium Networks principal offices are in Mountain View,
California with design team locations in California, Massachusetts,
India and Taiwan. For more information, please visit:
http://www.caviumnetworks.com
About Kontron
Kontron, the global leader of embedded computing technology,
designs and manufactures embedded and communications standards-based,
rugged COTS and custom solutions for OEMs, systems integrators,
and application providers in a variety of markets. Kontron
engineering and manufacturing facilities, located throughout
Europe, North America, and Asia-Pacific, work together
with streamlined global sales and support services to
help customers reduce their time-to-market and gain a
competitive advantage. Kontron’s diverse product
portfolio includes: boards & mezzanines, Computer-on-Modules,
HMIs & displays, systems & platforms, and rugged
& custom capabilities. Kontron is a Premier member
of the Intel® Embedded Alliance and has been a VDC
Platinum Vendor for Embedded Computer Boards 5 years running.
Kontron is listed on the German TecDAX stock exchange
under the symbol "KBC". For more information,
please visit: http://www.kontron.com
About Tata Elxsi
TATA Elxsi is a global technology services and product
design company, and the embedded product design arm of
the US$ 70 Billion TATA group. With operations in US,
Europe and Asia, TATA Elxsi is a strategic partner to
the world’s leading equipment makers and service
providers.
Leveraging over 20 years of exclusive focus on wireless
and communications technologies and embedded product development,
TATA Elxsi enables customers with stacks, integrated solutions,
and a world-class engineering team to help customers deploy
carrier-class LTE, WiMAX and femtocell products; helping
reduce time-to-market, costs and risk.
TATA Elxsi’s engineering expertise and services
span the entire communications ecosystem including system
architecture, development and testing, product maintenance
and test automation, for devices and infrastructure. For
more information, please visit: http://www.tataelxsi.com
For additional information, contact:
Cavium Networks Contact:
Angel Atondo
Sr. Marketing Communications Manager,
Cavium Networks, 805 East Middlefield Road,
Mountain View, CA 94043,
Telephone: +1 650-623-7033.
Email: angel.atondo@caviumnetworks.com
Tata Elxsi Contact:
Mr. Hari Balan
Corporate Manager
Marketing Communications
Telephone: +91 80 22979123
Email: haribalan@tataelxsi.co.in
