Marvell Announces OCTEON TX2 Family of Multi-Core

Marvell at the moment introduced OCTEON TX2, the most recent household of infrastructure processors focusing on all kinds of wired and wi-fi networking tools together with switches, routers, safe gateways, firewall, community monitoring, 5G base stations, and good community interface controllers (NICs). Massive will increase in knowledge visitors coupled with escalating necessities for end-to-end safety are intensifying the necessity for extremely scalable compute platforms with built-in workload-optimized {hardware} accelerators to satisfy efficiency, energy and whole price of possession necessities. Building on 5 generations of the {industry}’s most scalable and extensively adopted infrastructure processor platform, the OCTEON TX2 household is enabled by a broad software program ecosystem together with a feature-rich software program improvement equipment (SDK) and virtualization help, delivering a singular mixture of efficiency and programmability. The OCTEON TX2 portfolio extends Marvell’s industry-leading efficiency and scalability, delivering a 2.5x enchancment over the earlier era and scaling as much as 200 Gbps of packet processing throughput.

Marvell’s OCTEON TX2 infrastructure processor household combines as much as 36 cores, based mostly on the Arm v8-A structure with configurable and programmable {hardware} accelerator blocks, linked by Marvell’s field-proven and extremely scalable coherent interconnect. Compared to architectures that course of knowledge solely on CPU cores, these accelerator blocks – which embrace safety, packet processing, and visitors administration features – are in a position to meet probably the most demanding efficiency and energy necessities. The built-in {hardware} accelerators provide 2.5x enchancment over Marvell’s earlier era of OCTEON processors with scalable throughput starting from 10 Gbps to over 200 Gbps making them very best for 5G base station and transport community infrastructure, safety, cloud and knowledge middle, enterprise networking, and clever offload purposes.

The OCTEON platform is enabled by a mature and extensively deployed SDK, supported by strong software program ecosystems consisting of each open supply and business choices. The platform consists of firmware, Linux OS and a number of distributions, virtualization, containers, knowledge aircraft improvement equipment (DPDK), protocol stacks, infrastructure administration and orchestration like OpenStack and Kubernetes, and digital community features (VNFs). In addition, Marvell helps a full routing stack together with TCP, SSL, and IPSEC help and DPDK help for L2/L3 forwarding and IPSEC.

“Today’s data infrastructure requires significantly faster network throughput and higher end-to-end security at all nodes of the network,” stated John Sakamoto, vp of Infrastructure Processor Business Unit at Marvell. “Built on more than a decade of expertise, the OCTEON TX2 family extends Marvell’s performance leadership in supporting high performance datapath and security applications with a 2.5x performance boost over previous generations.”

“High-performance data networks require increased compute performance and efficiency as we enter the 5G era,” stated Mohamed Awad, vp of selling, Infrastructure Line of Business, Arm. “OCTEON TX2, based on the Armv8-A architecture, enables new levels of performance to meet the demands of next generation networking and cloud data center applications.”

Marvell’s CN91xx, CN92xx, CN96xx, and CN98xx processor households embrace:

• 4 – 36 cores based mostly on the Armv8-A structure ranging as much as 2.Four GHz frequency
• Rich I/O with 25G SerDes-based I/O interfaces, e.g. 100GbE, 50GbE, 40GbE, 25GbE, 10GbE, 2.5GbE, 1GbE Ethernet ports and PCIe gen4 interfaces supporting root-complex and end-point configurations
• Enhanced NITROX V safety co-processors which speed up a complete set of uneven and symmetric cryptographic operations
• Hardware accelerators help with complete packet processing {hardware} offload, together with packet obtain, versatile packet parsing, stream classification, buffer…