CHICAGO, IL--(Marketwire - Oct 24, 2011) - Cavium, Inc. (NASDAQ: [ CAVM ]), a leading provider of semiconductor products that enable intelligent processing for networking, communications, and the digital home, today announced that it is demonstrating market-leading, end-to-end carrier class solutions for 4G networks at the 4G World 2011 conference from October 25^th through the 27^th at Chicago's McCormick Place.

OCTEON Fusion Demo: For the first time, Cavium will be demonstrating its breakthrough, small cell "Base Station on a chip" technology, which delivers the industry's highest performance. This completely over-the-air LTE demonstration will include eight simultaneous connections including streaming of five HD videos, delivering up to the maximum possible data throughput. The demonstration platform consists of a commercially available 4G/LTE client, an OCTEON Fusion Technology based eNodeB base station, Cavium's FusionStack eNodeB software, and a commercial 4G/LTE EPC (Evolved Packet Core) solution.

To schedule a meeting with Cavium's executives in Cavium's Demo Suite #2726 at 4G World please contact Lilly Ly via email: [ lilly.ly@cavium.com ].

YJ Kim, General Manager of the Infrastructure Product Group, will be speaking on the topic of 4G SoC Technology Innovation including OCTEON Fusion small cell SoC at 4G World Solutions Theater on Tuesday, October 25^th, 1:30pm and at the conference session on Wednesday, October 26^th, 4:30pm.

Cavium and its partners will be also be showcasing multiple market leading LTE solutions based on the following product lines:

• OCTEON II Family of Multicore MIPS64 Processors:
  Industry's highest performance embedded processors, with up to 48GHz of single-chip compute and 50Gbps full-duplex traffic throughput with proven scalability up to 32-chips and 1024 real-cores, the ideal solution for mobile core infrastructure applications
• OCTEON II Accelerator Boards:
  4 - 40 Gbps Gigabit Ethernet NICs designed for rich and secure network services, compression and pattern matching ideal for 3G/LTE core networks
• Odyssey:
  Cavium will be showcasing its multi-mode UE technology with the Odyssey CNO9xxx product line, in partnership with Aricent in booth 1428
• Cavium Solutions and Services (CSS):
  Cavium will be highlighting a variety of award winning and OEM customer proven software toolkits optimized for multi-core

Cavium's Ecosystem Partner solutions include extensive software and hardware designs for wireless equipment from a number of close partners including: 6Wind, Advantech, Aricent, D2 Tech, Emerson, ENEA, Effnet, GE Fanuc, Kaspersky, Kontron, Monta Vista, RadiSys, Tata Elxsi, Wind River and others.

About Cavium, Inc
Cavium is a leading provider of highly integrated semiconductor products that enable intelligent processing in networking, communications and the digital home. Cavium offers a broad portfolio of integrated, software compatible processors ranging in performance from 10 Mbps to over 40 Gbps that enable secure, intelligent functionality in enterprise, data-center, broadband/consumer and access & service provider equipment. Cavium's processors are supported by ecosystem partners that provide operating systems, tool support, reference designs and other services. Cavium's principal offices are in San Jose, California with design team locations in California, Massachusetts, India, Taiwan and China. For more information, please visit: [ http://www.cavium.com ]

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