Date: 22/10/2008

ZTE Selects Cavium's OCTEON processors for 3G routers

ZTE Corporation has selected the OCTEON Plus CN5010 MIPS64 processor for their latest Wireless WCDMA broadband router.

"During our evaluation, we were highly impressed with the level of performance and integration available in the Cavium OCTEON CN5010 processor which was much superior to alternatives," said ZTE WCDMA General Manager Li Ying Feng.

Cavium press release states, "OCTEON processors are highly successful in a range of market segments including fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) routers, 802.11n enterprise access points and SOHO/SME secure routers".

The OCTEON Plus CN50XX family provides the choice of one or two custom 64-bit MIPS core devices, operating at 300-700 MHz frequencies with multiple software and pin compatible processor options. The other features of OCTEON CN50XX family are, they provide an integrated 128KB L2 cache, QoS, TCP, packet and security co-processing in hardware with interfaces such as TDM/PCM, multiple Gigabit Ethernet interfaces, PCI, USB 2.0.