Cavium and Sprint Collaborate for NFV Testing on Packet's Public Cloud
Summary
SAN JOSE, Calif. and BARCELONA, Spain, Feb. 26, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Cavium™, Inc., a leading provider of semiconductor products that enable secure and intelligent processing for enterprise, data center, wired and wireless networking, announced a collaboration with Sprint Corporation, a national carrier in the United States, using Packet, a cloud service provider, public cloud based on Cavium ThunderX2 Arm®-based servers and virtualized mobile core network orchestrated on Containers. "We see a great opportunity driving better economics and TCO with increased power savings using Arm-based servers, thereby enabling further distribution to the edge," said Aaron Hinkle, Systems Architect, Technology, Innovation and Architecture, Sprint. "We are very excited to collaborate with Sprint to test innovative NFV deployment scenarios and to showcase the promising TCO and power savings live demonstrations using our ThunderX2 Arm-based servers and 3GPP compliant virtualized RAN implementation," said Raj Singh, Vice President & General Manager of the Network & Communication Group, Cavium. "Cavium has been collaborating with many service providers on innovative NFV projects both directly and in open source communities utilizing our differentiated and highly scalable Arm-based processor and SoC families, rich software, and hardware eco-systems, and strong application domain expertise." Cavium, Inc. (NASDAQ: CAVM) offers a broad portfolio of infrastructure solutions for compute, security, storage, switching, connectivity, and baseband processing.