Cavium Extends Octeon

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- Cavium Networks, a world leader in security, network services and embedded processor solutions, today unveiled ten new highly integrated single and dual core MIPS64 processors starting at under $20 price points. The new SoC (system on chip) processors integrate a custom MIPS64 processor core with the industry's most advanced multi-layer application acceleration and security processing hardware, along with a wide range of networking I/O options to deliver breakthrough features, price/performance and power for next generation networking, wireless, control and storage applications. The new OCTEON CN31XX and CN30XX family of processors are fully software compatible with the market leading OCTEON CN38XX family of multi-core processors.

The OCTEON family now delivers industry's most scalable line of compatible MIPS64 processors from single core to sixteen cores. This enables OEMs to build equipment at a wide range of price performance points with a common software code base that results in dramatic reductions in development cost and time-to-market. The OCTEON processor family is being designed into a wide array of networking equipment, including routers, switches, unified threat management (UTM) appliances, application-aware gateways, triple-play gateways, WLAN and 3G access and aggregation devices and storage networking equipment.

Cavium Inc. (Nasdaq: CAVM)