Aricent and Cavium Networks which specializes in semiconductor products for networking, wireless, storage and video applications, will collaborate to offer pre-optimized, performance-enhanced as well as highly scalable EPC Serving Gateway (SGW), PDN Gateway (PGW) and Mobility Management Entity (MME) software frameworks. These solutions can be used by equipment manufacturers for their EPC (Evolved Packet Core) framework.

Aricent’s LTE EPC software framework is based upon the company’s mature and widely deployed DIAMETER and GTP product stacks. The frameworks are complete, pre-integrated control plane software modules suitable for LTE Macro/Micro EPC nodes, supporting essential SGW, PGW and MME capabilities. Aricent’s frameworks integrate the complete control plane (signaling) functionality of the EPC node into a seamless package, accelerating and simplifying development of highly scalable, carrier-class EPC solutions. Aricent’s LTE EPC framework will be available and pre-optimized on the current Cavium OCTEON Plus Processor family and the upcoming OCTEON II Processor family.

“Aricent has a successful track record providing mobile communications technology and services to the world’s leading infrastructure manufacturers,” said YJ Kim, senior director, networking and communications division at Cavium Networks. “Combining Aricent’s LTE expertise and software technology with OCTEON Multi-core MIPS64 processors will provide our mutual customers with an optimized, robust and reliable solution for EPC applications.  Together, Aricent and Cavium will reduce OEM development time and engineering cost for all Macro and Mini EPC node types. Building upon our existing eNodeB solution, we now offer a complete range of LTE network elements for our joint customers.”

Post tie-up Aricent’s LTE EPC software will be integrated with Cavium’s OCTEON Processor family.  

 “Cavium Networks’ OCTEON Processor Family has won numerous designs at tier-1 3.5G and LTE infrastructure vendors. Our collaboration with Cavium reflects our continued emphasis on alignment with technology leaders in the LTE space,” said Rakesh Vij, assistant vice president at Aricent. “In addition to our device, eNodeB, IP backhaul and access software, Aricent has created a complete integrated framework for LTE EPC nodes. Cavium’s semiconductor expertise combined with our software frameworks simplifies development complexity for LTE infrastructure customers.”