Cavium showcases its chips and software for 3G and WiMAX networks at MWC

Cavium is targeting LTE market by making available a range of software, chips, and development solutions for wireless broadband networks such as 3G and WiMAX. It's range of LTE (Long Term Evolution) eNodeB and EPC (Evolved Packet Core) solutions are demonstrated at the 2010 Mobile World Congress (MWC). Bangalore's multi-application design services company Tata Elxsi, Telecom software expert Continuous Computing, and femtocell expert Picochip are some of the Cavium's development partners, who are tuning their software for the Cavium's OCTEON multi-core MIPS64 processors. Cavium is offering DPI Software Toolkit along with OCTEON wireless processors for 3G, WiMAX and LTE infrastructure equipment including LTE Base Stations (eNodeBs) and Evolved Packet Core (EPC) devices, 3G Base stations, Cell Site Aggregators, Radio Network Controllers (RNC), xGSNs, Femtocells, Femto Gateways, WiMax base stations and ASN Gateways.

Cavium claims its muti-core (up to 32) Octeon processor takes care of LTE requirements such as very high signaling capacity, subscriber density and data throughput, better security and DPI (Deep Packet Inspection). OCTEON processors handle control processing, MAC layer acceleration, packet processing, DPI Routing, security processing at very low power.

Cavium adds, OCTEON also enables equipment manufacturers to achieve dramatic reduction in form factor by implementing Macro BTS in a 1U or 2U size, and RNC/Gateway in 4U size instead of large telecom shelfs.

Year 2010 will see huge drive in implementation of 3G and WiMAX all over the world. India is also going in big way both in WiMAX and 3G.
For more details on Octeon visit www.caviumnetworks.com