CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA March 12, 2008
– Reinforcing their commitment to maintaining and extending
the companies’ leadership position in the development
of open, carrier-grade advanced packet processor solutions
across a broad range of markets, GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms
today announced a strategic relationship with Cavium Networks.
The relationship was announced today at MVACEC (Mountain View
Alliance Communications Ecosystem Conference, San Francisco
Conference Center), a forum dedicated to next generation COTS
network hardware and software solutions.
GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms’ AdvancedMC™,
PCI-X, PCI Express and AdvancedTCA™ platforms will
be based on Cavium’s roadmap for its OCTEON™
multi-core MIPS64™ family of high-performance, low-power,
multi-core processors. GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms is
demonstrating its current OCTEON-based packet processing
platform at the forum.
GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms has previously announced
a range of products based on OCTEON packet processing technology,
including the Telum™ NPA-38x4 and NPA-58x4 high performance
packet processor AdvancedMCs, the WANic™ 3850 and
3860 PCI-X™ high performance packet processors and
the AT-5800 high-performance packet processor AdvancedTCA
blade. The company has already begun work on developing
new products based on Cavium’s recently-announced
5400 and 5600 silicon.
“This is a relationship that is highly synergistic,
leveraging the two companies’ strengths to enable
the development of powerful, flexible solutions for the
most demanding packet processing requirements,” said
Adrian Bernhard, General Manager, Commercial Products at
GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms. “We are bringing the
superior technology capabilities of the Cavium OCTEON processors
to the wide range of industries GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms
serves, including telecommunications, military and industrial
markets. Together with our key packet processor strategic
software alliances – 6Wind, AFORE and Qosmos –we
are capable of delivering real customer value as, collectively,
we address the future requirements for high performance
IP communications and secure access applications.”
“We are delighted to be working closely with GE Fanuc
Intelligent Platforms”, said Rajiv Khemani. Vice President
of Marketing and Sales at Cavium Networks. “Our combined
efforts will greatly benefit the networking and telecom
industry and our common customers who are looking for extraordinary
performance that can be delivered in constrained power and
space environments with state-of-the-art features.”
About Cavium Networks
Cavium Networks (NASDAQ: CAVM) is a leading provider of
highly integrated semiconductor products that enable intelligent
processing in networking, communications, storage and security
applications. Cavium Networks offers a broad portfolio of
integrated, software-compatible processors ranging in performance
from 10 Mbps to 10 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, CA with design team locations in California, Massachusetts
and India. For more information, please visit: http://www.caviumnetworks.com
About GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms
GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms, a joint venture between General
Electric (NYSE: GE) and FANUC LTD of Japan, is a high-performance
technology company and a global provider of hardware, software,
services, expertise and experience in automation and embedded
computing, with products employed in virtually every industry,
including manufacturing automation, defense, automotive, telecommunications,
healthcare and aerospace. GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms is
a worldwide company head-quartered in Charlottesville, VA,
and is part of GE Enterprise Solutions. For more information,
visit
www.gefanuc.com
GE Fanuc Contact:
Ian McMurray,
GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms
Telephone: +44 (0) 1327 322821
Email: ian.mcmurray@gefanuc.com
Cavium Networks Contact:
Angel Atondo
Marketing Manager
Cavium Networks
805 East Middlefield Road,
Mountain View, CA 94043
Telephone: 650-623-7033
Email: angel.atondo@caviumnetworks.com
