Cavium Networks has said that it's demonstrating a range of high performance, next-generation multi-media home technologies based upon its latest PureVu, ECONA and OCTEON processor families at a trade show.
The company's PureVu video processors are targeted for OEMs and ODMs developing wireless, networked high-definition (HD) displays for PCs, TVs, gaming consoles, set top boxes, and media players, according to company officials.
Company officials said that PureVu video processor-based demonstrations include PC-to-TV with Internet content; multi-room PC gaming; and all-in-one (AIO) PC with wireless display.
Using a Cavium-based WiFi (News - Alert) access point, Internet content is streamed to a notebook PC where the company's latest CNW56xx H.264 video processor transmits the content in full HD resolution to a remote display, said company officials.
The company's wireless display technology use WiFi and H.264 compression to connect a gaming PC to a remote HDTV display, showcasing low latency video and USB back-channel over WiFi for remote game control.
And, using Cavium's wireless display technology, an ALO PC plays BD content on a remote monitor, while the AIO display itself is available for local use, said company officials.
Tier-1 OEMs and ODMs -- building FTTH broadband gateways, network attached storage appliances, media and print servers, and wireless access points -- are using Cavium's ECONA low power, dual-core ARM (News - Alert)-based processors.
ECONA ARM processor-based demonstrations include multi-service traffic -- data, video, voice -- management with wire-speed QoS enforcement; full-featured, home media server demo to showcase media storage and serving capabilities of the ECONA platform; L7 content inspection to demonstrate ECONA CNS3XXX's performance for gateway-based Intrusion (News - Alert) Prevention applications; and more.
In addition to switches, routers, unified threat management (UTM) appliances, OCTEON MIPS64 processors are also used in wireless LAN controllers and access points, storage switches, triple-play broadband gateways, intelligent network adaptors, 3G, 4G, WiMAX (News - Alert), and LTE wireless femto cells, base stations and gateways.
OCTEON Multicore MIPS64 processor-based demonstrations include multi-flow iSCSI and NAS performance with scalability with cores and flows for SMB to Enterprise NAS/iSCSI applications; Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) technology for intrusion prevention and anti-virus protection for Cloud infrastructure, UTM and wireless infrastructure application.
Cavium Networks (News - Alert) is a provider of highly integrated semiconductor products that enable intelligent processing in networking, communications, and digital home applications.
Earlier this month, the company announced that Skelmir has ported their CEE-J VM to ECONA CNS3XXX processors for the support of Open Services Gateway initiative (OSGi) and other Java applications.
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