Aricent partners with Cavium Networks

NEW DELHI, INDIA: Aricent, an innovation, technology and services company focused exclusively on communications, announced a long term evolution (LTE) evolved packet core (EPC) development collaboration with Cavium Networks, a provider of semiconductor products that enable intelligent processing for networking, wireless, storage and video applications.

Through this collaboration, the companies will offer pre-optimized, performance-enhanced and highly-scalable EPC serving gateway (SGW), PDN gateway (PGW) and mobility management entity (MME) ready-to-use software frameworks for Cavium's OCTEON Multi-core MIPS64 processor family.

This joint effort creates significant technology synergies, offering LTE equipment manufacturers a high-performance, high-capacity solution for their EPC platforms, while simultaneously reducing time to market, risk and cost.

Aricent’s LTE EPC software framework is based upon the company’s mature and widely deployed Diameter and GTP product stacks. The frameworks are complete, pre-integrated control plane software modules suitable for LTE Macro/Micro EPC nodes, supporting essential SGW, PGW and MME capabilities. Aricent’s frameworks integrate the complete control plane (signaling) functionality of the EPC node into a seamless package, accelerating and simplifying development of highly scalable, carrier-class EPC solutions.

Aricent’s LTE EPC framework will be available and pre-optimized on the current Cavium Octeon Plus Processor family and the upcoming OCTEON II Processor family.

Y J Kim, senior director, networking and communications division, Cavium Networks, said: “Aricent has a successful track record providing mobile communications technology and services to the world’s leading infrastructure manufacturers. “Combining Aricent’s LTE expertise and software technology with Octeon multi-core MIPS64 processors will provide our mutual customers with an optimized, robust and reliable solution for EPC applications."

The Octeon processor family is the industry’s broadest multi-core MIPS64 based processor family with over 30 different integrated processors with application performance ranging from 1Gbps to 40+Gbps. The Octeon processor family consists of processors with one to 32 cores on a single chip with integrated multiple GEs, 10GEs, sRIO, PCI-express or PCI-X networking interfaces with industry-leading hardware acceleration for packet processing, quality of service, TCP, IPsec, KASUMI, SNOW 3G, ROHC, compression/decompression and deep packet inspection.

Aricent and Cavium will showcase their respective LTE solutions at 4G World in Chicago on Wednesday.