Open Networking Summit 2015, today announced Cavium's XPliant® Switch as the winner of SDN Idol 2015, the industry's top award for the year's hottest SDN solutions.

Cavium's XPliant Ethernet switch silicon combines the highest level of flexibility and performance, unprecedented in the networking industry. The revolutionary XPA architecture incorporates programmable tables as well as flexible lookups and editing of packets with high throughput. These architectural features enable native support of extremely flexible OpenFlow defined switching implementations, for high performance SDN applications at mega scale.

"Software Defined Networking is now migrating from a discussion to actual implementation in the real world," said Eric Hayes, VP/GM, Switch Platform Group at Cavium, "The XPliant protocol independent programmable switch silicon is providing a platform for innovation to further this reality."
Combining the XPliant flexible programmable switch silicon with the emerging leading software open ecosystem opens the door to modern networking deployments of SDN applications to achieve high performance and scale.

"This year's SDN Idol was very competitive and every participant presented the most innovative SDN technologies ONS has ever seen. We are very pleased to announce Cavium as the reigning SDN Idol 2015 and this accomplishment exemplifies how data planes take Openflow and SDN to the next level of customization and programmability," said Vaibhav Parulkar, program manager of ONS2015. "It will be very interesting to see the scale of live SDN and NFV deployments over the course of 2015, the emerging use cases and the variety of new business models that these solutions will enable. This industry is innovating so rapidly that it's hard to imagine what disruptive solutions will be demoed at SDN Idol 2016 and we look forward to seeing what next year will bring."

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