Cavium Networks OCTEON Powers Palo Alto Networks' PA-4000 Series, Best of Interop Grand Prize Winner

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA, May 20 (MARKET WIRE) --
Cavium Networks (NASDAQ: CAVM), a leading provider of semiconductor products
that enable intelligent processing for networking, communications, storage,
wireless and security applications, today announced that Palo Alto Networks uses
Cavium's OCTEON Multi-core MIPS64 processors to power its entire series of next
generation firewall systems. Palo Alto Networks' PA-4000 Series next generation
firewall won the highly coveted Interop Grand Prize Award as well as the Best
of Show award in the security category at the recent Interop 2008 in Las Vegas.
Cavium Networks' processors are being designed into market-leading networking
equipment
such as routers, switches, Unified Threat Management appliances, Layer 4+
content-aware switches, modular chassis switches, wireless infrastructure
equipment, broadband router and wireless LAN access/aggregation points.

"Palo Alto Networks is delivering a new class of security equipment which
enables unprecedented visibility and policy control of applications
runningon enterprise networks regardless of port, protocol, evasive tactic or
evenSSL encryption -- at up to 10Gbps with no performance degradation," said Nir
Zuk, founder and CTO of Palo Alto Networks. "We selected Cavium's OCTEON
processor family from a number of options due to its leading performance,
unmatched hardware acceleration, top-to-bottom scalability and lower power.
Furthermore, Cavium's strong market momentum and processor roadmap execution
make
Cavium an ideal long term silicon partner for us."

"Cavium processors are becoming the CPU of choice for a wide range of
applications in networking, security, storage and wireless equipment. Cavium's
blue
chip customer base is leveraging our highly integrated System on Chip multi core
processors and targeted hardware acceleration for packet processing, security
and intelligent Layer 4 to Layer 7 processing to produce bench mark setting
world class products. We congratulate Palo Alto Networks on winning this
prestigious award," said Rajiv Khemani, Vice President Marketing and Sales of
Cavium Networks.

About Cavium Networks

Cavium Networks is a leading provider of highly integrated semiconductor
products that
enable intelligent processing in networking, communications, storage and
security
applications. Cavium Networks offers a broad portfolio of integrated, software
compatible processors ranging in performance from 10 Mbps to 10 Gbps that
enable secure, intelligent functionality in enterprise, data-center,
broadband/consumer and access & service provider equipment. Cavium Networks
processors are supported by ecosystem partners that provide operating systems,
tool support, reference designs and other services. Cavium Networks principal
offices are in Mountain View, CA with design team locations in California,
Massachusetts and India. For more information, please visit:
http://www.caviumnetworks.com.

Cavium Networks Contact:
Angel Atondo
Marketing Manager
Tel: (650) 623-7033
Email: Email Contact

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