MEDIA ALERT/WEBCAST ADVISORY -- Emulex Corporation Second Quarter Fiscal 2004 Financial Results Conference Call Advisory


MEDIA ADVISORY, Jan. 16, 2004 (PRIMEZONE) --


 WHAT:

     Emulex Corporation's (NYSE:ELX) second quarter fiscal 2004
     financial results conference call is scheduled for Tuesday,
     January 27, 2004 at 2:00 p.m. Pacific time (5:00 p.m. ET).
     Emulex Chairman and CEO, Paul Folino and Executive Vice
     President and Chief Financial Officer, Michael Rockenbach will
     host the call.

     The conference call may be accessed live via the Emulex website
     at www.emulex.com.  A replay of the call will be available for
     12 months by accessing the Emulex website.

 WHEN:

     Tuesday, January 27, 2004 at 2:00 p.m. PT

 WHERE:

     Emulex website: www.emulex.com

 CONTACT:

     Investor contact:                Press contact:
     Mike Rockenbach, CFO             Robin Austin, Sr. Manager,
     (714) 885-3695                   Public Relations
                                      714-885-3462 or
                                      robin.austin@emulex.com

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About Emulex

Emulex Corporation is the market share leader in Fibre Channel host bus adapters and leading provider of building blocks for intelligent storage networking technologies. Emulex was recently ranked number 15 in Deloitte & Touche's 2003 Technology Fast 50 and named one of Forbes Magazine's 25 Fastest Growing Technology Companies.

The Emulex award-winning product families, including its LightPulse(tm) HBAs and InSpeed(tm) embedded storage switching products, are based on internally developed ASIC, firmware and software technologies spanning both Fibre Channel and IP networking protocols, and offer customers high performance, scalability, flexibility and reduced total cost of ownership. The company's products have been selected by the world's leading server and storage providers, including Apple, Dell, EMC, Fujitsu Ltd., Fujitsu Siemens, Groupe Bull, HP, Hitachi Data Systems, IBM, NEC, Network Appliance, StorageTek, Sun Microsystems, Unisys and Xyratex. In addition, Emulex includes industry leaders Brocade, Computer Associates, Intel, McDATA, Microsoft and VERITAS among its strategic partners. Additionally, Emulex and Intel, via a joint development agreement, are pioneering the industry's first storage processors for Serial ATA, Serial Attached SCSI and Fibre Channel interfaces within a single architecture.

Emulex markets to OEMs and end users through its own worldwide selling organization, as well as its two-tier distribution partners, including ACAL, Avnet, Bell Microproducts, Info-X, Netmarks, Tech Data, TidalWire and Tokyo Electron. Corporate headquarters are located in Costa Mesa, California. News releases and other information about Emulex Corporation are available at http://www.emulex.com.

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"Safe Harbor" Statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995: With the exception of historical information, the statements set forth above include forward-looking statements that involve risk and uncertainties. The company wishes to caution readers that a number of important factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements. Those factors include the rapidly changing nature of technology, evolving industry standards and frequent introductions of new products and enhancements by competitors; fluctuation in the growth of Fibre Channel and IP markets; changes in economic conditions or changes in end-user demand for technology solutions; fluctuations or delays in customer orders; the highly competitive nature of the markets for Emulex's products; Emulex's ability to gain market acceptance for its products; the company's ability to attract and retain skilled personnel; the company's reliance on third-party suppliers. These and other factors which could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements are also discussed in the company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including its recent filings on Forms 8-K, 10-K and 10-Q

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