Cavium Networks, Inc. and Wind River, Inc have announced the availability of the Wind River Platform for Network Equipment and Wind River VxWorks 6.1 for Cavium Networks' OCTEON Multi-core MIPS64 based Processor Family. "The OCTEON(TM) Processor family consists of 1 to 16 MIPS64 based cnMIPS(TM) cores providing up to 16GHz of 64-bit compute processing on a single chip. Additionally, OCTEON incorporates the most advanced multi-layer application acceleration for networking control, data and services applications. The OCTEON Processor family integrates up to 8 Gigabit ports, up to dual SPI-4.2, PCI-X, up to 144-bit DDR2 controller, up to dual 18-bit RLDRAM II controllers, on-chip packet processing, QoS, TCP, compression/ decompression, encryption and pattern matching acceleration hardware to deliver a substantial price, performance and power benefit over alternative solutions."

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