Samsung Electronics has chosen Cavium Networks’ (NASDAQ: CAVM) Octeon processors for its 3G/4G systems, according to the firm.
Samsung has increasingly been dipping its toes into building out network solutions, and says it sees Octeon processors as “ideal” when it comes to 4G capable products to pack into Base stations and Packet Core environments which need to be both scalable and secure.
With a range of processors going from one to 32 cores, and application performance ranging from 1Gbps to 40+Gbps, all of which boast 3G/4G hardware accelerators, Cavium reckons it has the chips the industry is looking for. The firm also puts a lot of emphasis on its processors’ quality of service, TCP, Security, compression / decompression and DPI.
“The demand for secure and intelligent mobile data is growing at a record pace,” said YJ Kim, general manager of Cavium’s Infrastructure Processor Group, adding that the telecom industry was looking for simple, cost effective ways to move from 3G/WiMAX to LTE/WiMAX 2.
