SAN FRANCISCO, March 1, 2005 (PRIMEZONE) -- Intel Developer Forum -- Emulex Corporation (NYSE:ELX), the industry's preeminent source for a broad range of advanced storage networking infrastructure solutions, today announced its new family of 4Gb/s Fibre Channel host bus adapters (HBAs) and I/O Controllers (IOC) with a native PCI Express interface. Based on Emulex's latest generation I/O Controller, codenamed Zephyr, the 4Gb/s LPe11000 family of HBAs is designed specifically for use within emerging PCI Express-based servers and other embedded applications. This new family of HBAs offers both single and dual channel connectivity, and may scale from volume servers environments up to high performance enterprise-class systems. Emulex will begin sampling to OEMs next quarter.
"Emulex is once again demonstrating its market leadership in the areas of both 4Gb/s and PCI Express with the launch of its new Zephyr I/O Controller and LPe11000 family of HBAs," said Mike Smith, Executive Vice President, Worldwide Marketing, Emulex Corporation. "Emulex's Zephyr IOCs and LPe11000 HBAs offer software driver compatibility with out existing products, enabling our customers to utilize next generation server and storage solutions using 4Gb/s and PCI Express technologies."
The new 4Gb/s Zephyr-based LPe110000 HBA features Emulex's unique Service Level Interface (SLI), enabling full driver compatibility with prior generations of Emulex LightPulse(tm) HBAs. Additionally, the Emulex SLI also ensures performance scalability for current 2Gb/s and 4Gb/s speeds as well as future link speeds of 16Gb/s and beyond. Zephyr delivers high bandwidth and I/O processing performance, full FICON distance support on two ports and adheres to low power requirements of next generation system designs.
"Providing solutions that combine 4Gb/s and PCI Express significantly improve both system and storage network performance and scalability," said Jim Pappas, director of initiative marketing with Intel's Digital Enterprise Group. "Technology development efforts by company's such as Emulex that fully optimize the advanced benefits of PCI Express technology serves to accelerate the seamless deployment of next generation PCI Express-based SAN infrastructure solutions."
Customers utilizing Emulex Zephyr IOCs may take advantage of new features, such as BlockGuard(tm), which was designed by Emulex to provide end-to-end data protection. Emulex's BlockGuard implementation is based on the Data Integrity Field (DIF) industry standard and is key to enabling reliable delivery of data across the storage network. The Zephyr IOC also offers integrated memory, reducing the footprint and system cost for embedded applications.
Emulex's expanding suite of 4Gb/s infrastructure solutions now includes LightPulse Fibre Channel HBAs and IOCs for both PCI-X 2.0 and PCI Express-based servers, in addition to InSpeed(tm) and FibreSpy(tm) embedded storage switches. Designed to meet the needs of multiple solution environments, ranging from blade servers to enterprise and midrange storage systems, Emulex's Zephyr-based products have the latest ARM processor and integrated memory to maximize efficiency in the most data intensive environments. For more information about Zephyr IOCs and LPe11000 family of HBAs, visit www.emulex.com/pciexpress.html.
About Emulex
Emulex Corporation is the industry's preeminent source for a broad range of advanced storage networking infrastructure solutions spanning host bus adapters, embedded storage switches, I/O controllers and SAN Storage Switches. Emulex ranked number 16 in the Deloitte 2004 Technology Fast 50 and most recently received recognition as one of Forbes 200 Best Small Companies.
The world's leading server and storage providers rely on Emulex HBAs, embedded storage switching and I/O controller products to build reliable, scalable and high performance storage solutions. 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, 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 Dell, EMC, Fujitsu Ltd., Fujitsu Siemens, Bull, HP, Hitachi Data Systems, Engenio, IBM, NEC, Network Appliance, Quantum Corp., StorageTek, Sun Microsystems, Unisys and Xyratex. In addition, Emulex includes industry leaders Brocade, Computer Associates, Intel, McDATA, Microsoft and VERITAS among its strategic partners. 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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