Date: 21/01/2009

OCTEON is the engine of triple-play home gateways used in France's FTTH service

SFR, Fiber to Home (FTTH) service provider of France has selected Cavium's OCTEON CN50XX dual core processor family for their next generation gigabit, triple-play home gateway, called "neufbox" .
OCTEON CN50XX Processor Family is designed for home gateways supporting fiber speed WAN connections, Gigabit LAN connections with 802.11n multi-hundred Mbps wireless connections while supporting voice, video and data with quality of service (QoS).

The OCTEON CN50XX family offers the choice of 1 or 2 custom 64-bit MIPS core devices, operating at 300-700MHz frequencies with multiple software and pin compatible processor options. Integrated features include 128KB L2 cache, QoS, TCP, packet and security co-processing in hardware with a rich set of interfaces such as TDM/PCM, multiple Gigabit Ethernet interfaces, PCI, USB 2.0 and others.

To know further about Octeon visit: www.caviumnetworks.com