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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., July 29, 2010 – Cavium Networks (NASDAQ: CAVM), a leading provider of highly integrated semiconductor products that enable intelligent processing for networking, communications and the digital home, today announced that ViaSat Inc. (NASDAQ:VSAT), a producer of satellite and other wireless communication and networking systems, has selected OCTEON® Multi-Core processors to power its next generation subscriber terminals as well as aggregation gateways for its SurfBeam®2 broadband-over-satellite system. ViaSat next generation equipment benefits from the low power consumption, rich computing and service capabilities, and integration offered by OCTEON Plus processors to provide always-on high-speed Internet access with sophisticated QOS, built-in firewall and network address translation, and video/voice-over-IP services to millions of end-users.