ThunderX ARMv8 Processors

Cavium, Inc.
Corporate Headquarters
2315 North First Street
San Jose, California 95131
United States
408.943.7100
1,001 - 5,000 employees
ThunderX ARMv8 Processors
2018 NFV Report Series Part 1: NFV Infrastructure (NFVI) and VIM Categories:

2018 NFV Report Series Part 1: NFV Infrastructure (NFVI) and VIM - Online Edition > Chapter 8: NFVI Data Center Hardware Platforms > ThunderX ARMv8 Processors

ThunderX ARMv8 Processors from Cavium, Inc.

The ThunderX product family provides the best in class 64-bit ARMv8 Data Center and Cloud Processors, offering an unprecedented level of integration and industry leading SoC performance. The ThunderX processor families are supported by rich eco-systems including OEM/ODM COTS and OCP servers, and commercial and open source OS, virtualization, and NFV platforms

Brochure/Datasheet: www.cavium.com/pdfFiles/ThunderX_PB_p12_Rev1.pdf

Category NFVI Data Center Hardware Platform
Relevancy to NFVI/VIM

Cavium’s ARMv8 based processor families span COTS servers targeted ThunderX and ThunderX2 families to edge computing and uCPE targeted OCTEON TX SoC families. These ARMv8 processors provide high-performance hardware for NFV from Telco cloud to uCPE.
Value Proposition

The Cavium ARMv8 processors provide high performance and scalable offerings which address the various uCPE use cases from retail stores to enterprises, and Telco cloud NFV COTS servers use cases. The Cavium ARMv8 processors integrate many hardware accelerators for boosting performance and efficiency. These accelerators are abstracted by standard APIs like DPDK, FD.io, and ODP for interoperability. Cavium has rich eco-systems of ODM/OEM hardware and open source and commercial software and OS.
Top Use Cases
  1. uCPE hardware including OEM and ODM white boxes, offering cost-effective and scalable uCPE hardware platforms.
  2. COTS servers for edge and cloud datacenters running containers and virtualized VNFs, e.g. vEPC, vIMS, vBNG.
  3. COTS servers for edge data centers running C-RAN vBBU.
Supported Hypervisors KVM
Linux Container Integration

Containers, e.g. Dockers, LXC/LXD, and Containers orchestration like Kubernetes are supported.
Industry Standards Participation ETSI NFV ISG, Linux Foundation (LFN, OPNFV, etc.), Open Compute Project (OCP), OpenStack Foundation and Telecom Infrastructure Project (TIP)
Linux Foundation Projects Supported LFN (CORD, DPDK, FD.io, FRR, IOVisor, ONAP, ONOS, OpenDaylight, Open Security Controller, OpenSwitch, OPNFV, OVS, PNDA, SNAS.io), Cloud Native Computing Foundation, Core Embedded Linux and LSB
Key Customers China Unicom, China Mobile, Sprint
Key Partners Canonical, SuSe, Red Hat, Enea, ADVA Ensemble

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