"As software defined infrastructures evolve and newer kinds of workloads are deployed on SDDC, requirements for network virtualization offloads, higher bandwidth, lower costs and simplified management are increasing," said Sudhanshu (Suds) Jain, Product Manager, VMware. "Sharing the vision of simplified infrastructure operations and increased application performance, VMware is pleased to collaborate with Cavium to bring technology advancements like FastLinQ 10/25GbE NICs with VxLAN and GENEVE offloads to the market."

Analyst Supporting Quotes
The Cavium FastLinQ 41000 Series should have broad market appeal given its support for the many protocols and features required by today's diverse and dynamic marketplace," said Seamus Crehan, President of Crehan Research. "Designed to address the rapidly changing needs of the data center and the specific needs of mega data centers run by telecommunications providers, MSPs and enterprise private clouds."

"Cavium FastLinQ 41000 Series of network adapters address the demanding needs of the next-generation agile data center by providing a flexible and future-proof solution," said Shane Rau, Research Vice President, Computing Semiconductors of IDC. "With a compelling set of offloads for both server and storage applications, along with a flexible architecture, these second-generation 25GbE NICs from Cavium are well poised to ride the wave of networking interconnects."

"The data center market is well into a ramp for deployment of 25/50GbE, with significant deployments in large cloud service providers (CSPs) looking to migrate from 10GbE server connectivity to 25GbE server connectivity with 100GbE switching. Mainstream enterprises are expected to follow later in 2017," said Cliff Grossner, Ph.D., Research Director and Advisor, Data Center Research Practice, IHS Markit.  "In a recent IHS Markit report, we discovered that 25GE ports are expected to represent 31% of adapter ports shipped by 2021. The introduction of 25GbE adapters targeting cloud, telco NFV, and enterprise specific use cases are an important and timely event advancing the networking market, driving new opportunity." ^[2]

"Data centers are in the midst of a rapid migration to distributed applications, a massive expansion in the size of the clustered server environments--which together are driving a huge increase in IP traffic inside the data center," said Frank Berry, Founder and Senior Analyst at IT Brand Pulse. "Servers in these data centers need both high bandwidth and low latency network connectivity. Cavium 41000 Series adapters more than meet the challenge by providing up to 100Gb throughput and multiple ultra-low latency technologies including RoCE, iWARP and DPDK kernel bypass."

"The FastLinQ QL41000 Series represents the Swiss army knife of 25G Ethernet adapters," said Bob Wheeler, Principal Analyst at The Linley Group. "These NICs are unique in supporting both RoCE and iWARP while also providing a broad set of storage and virtualization offloads."  

"Traditional network infrastructures are rigid and complex, making it both time-consuming and error prone to deploy workloads that require network changes," said Paul Teich, Principal Analyst at TIRIAS Research. "Organizations can achieve rapid scale and agility when they adopt software-defined network (SDN) and software-defined storage (SDS) models for deployment and management. Look beyond server virtualization to achieve higher efficiency while also solving operational and security challenges."

Resources:

a.    Cavium FastLinQ 41000 Series Product Page

b.    Universal RDMA The Linley Group White Paper

c.    25Gbps Ethernet Technology

d.    Accelerate Live Migration with RDMA

About Cavium
Cavium, Inc. (NASDAQ: CAVM), offers a broad portfolio of infrastructure solutions for compute, security, storage, switching, connectivity and baseband processing. Cavium's highly integrated multi-core SoC products deliver software compatible solutions across low to high performance points enabling secure and intelligent functionality in Enterprise, Data Center and Service Provider Equipment. Cavium processors and solutions are supported by an extensive ecosystem of operating systems, tools, application stacks, hardware reference designs and other products. Cavium is headquartered in San Jose, CA with design centers in California, Massachusetts, India, Israel, China and Taiwan.

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