ACAL Technology has signed a sales franchise agreement with Cavium Networks. Cavium is a leading provider of highly integrated semiconductor products that enable intelligent processing for networking, communications and the digital home. The agreement with ACAL is to provide specialist technical and commercial support to customers in the following European countries: Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Holland, Norway, Spain, Sweden UK and Ireland.
The agreement introduces MIPS multi-core processors and ARM single- and dual-core processors to ACAL's line card. This will allow ACAL to increase their support for customers implementing secure intelligent networking, wireless, storage, video and security applications in the enterprise, data-centre, broadband, consumer, access and service-provider sectors. Cavium Networks' processors provide performance from 100 Mbps to 40Gbps and comprise the OCTEON® family of multi-core MIPS processors, ECONA™ ARM core processors, NITROX® deep packet inspection and security processors and PureVu™ video processors. The range also includes intelligent adapters. Their products have been installed by leading global vendors, making Cavium the world's most designed-in embedded multi-core processors in networking, communications, wireless and fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) gateway applications. With the broadest set of deployed security algorithms, Cavium also has the largest share of the security processor market. Colin Jacobs, Business Development Director, ACAL Technology, comments, "This new agreement will allow ACAL to help customers in emerging applications to reduce the risk and timescale for implementing new designs using MIPS multi-core processors or ARM single- or dual-core processors. Cavium's security processors and board-level products also offer greater flexibility for customers in many of our key vertical markets." Andy Rava, Vice President of worldwide sales at Cavium, said: "We chose ACAL because they have both the technical knowledge and geographic coverage to represent our products across a wide range of customers and applications. We are looking forward to the increased support and service they will provide to our European customer base." For further information, please contact http://www.acaltechnology.com/uk/cavium1 www.acaltechnology.com
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