SAN JOSE, Calif., May 3, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Cavium, Inc. (NASDAQ: CAVM) a leading provider of semiconductor products that enable secure and intelligent processing for enterprise, datacenter, cloud, wired and wireless networking, received the Omega Trailblazing Innovation Award from ACG Research to recognize Cavium for addressing the issues of conventional networking platforms and opening up new opportunities for customers with its XPliant® packet switching technology, ThunderX® ARM SoCs, and the OCTEON® processor designs for HetNet RANs.

The Omega Award recognizes excellence in product innovation and differentiated marketing in HotSeat, Whiteboard and Spotlight Innovation videos.

ACG Research recognized Cavium for innovation in general-purpose computing platforms in its ThunderX ARM processing family, leading edge developments in system on a chip (SoC) designs for mobile networking in its OCTEON and OCTEON Fusion-M® products as well as its uniquely programmable XPliant NFV/SDN Ethernet switch.

"We thank ACG Research for the recognition of our efforts on multiple fronts, including switching and baseband processing, to develop the open networking technologies necessary for the deployment of large-scale telco clouds and 5G wireless networks," said Raj Singh, VP & GM, Networking Communication Group, Cavium, Inc. "The new open core networks will enable advanced concepts, such as flexible end-to-end network slicing to address individual service requirements, and will require advanced network processing capabilities, such as those embodied in our XPliant, ThunderX, OCTEON and OCTEON Fusion-M processor families."

"In each area of innovation Cavium is pushing the industry forward to 'more for less' and to do it with great flexibility. By doing this it is helping the industry move forward more rapidly toward goals its customers and stakeholders clearly value. In a changing marketplace, Cavium has demonstrated an ability to develop new solutions and technologies to address current as well as future needs and capacity," said Paul Parker-Johnson, Principal Analyst at ACG Research. "The breadth of exciting products emanating from Cavium is a testament to their vision of NFV, the importance of the cloud, and the future of networking in many domains."

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, Datacenter 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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