COSTA MESA, Calif., Sept. 7, 2004 (PRIMEZONE) -- Emulex Corporation (NYSE:ELX), the world leader in Fibre Channel host bus adapters and embedded storage switches, today announced that Engenio Information Technologies, Inc. will integrate Emulex's award winning and field proven InSpeed switch-on-a-chip (SOC) technology into its new 2 Gb/s FC switched drive module. Engenio utilizes the Emulex InSpeed SOC 320 to create an "SBOD application," which improves the reliability and performance of storage solutions by bringing 2Gb/s switched connectivity to each individual disk drive within the storage array.
With over 2 million ports shipped in its first 2-years, InSpeed technology is now the storage industry's leading solution for creating switched back-end architectures. The InSpeed SOC 320 is Emulex's second generation of 2 Gb/s embedded storage switch technology, incorporating a host of innovative features and functionality like a completely non-blocking, dynamically switching, crossbar switch core. Dynamic switching allows connection of any port to any port to deliver unmatched internal bandwidth and redundancy for increasing storage system performance and RAS characteristics.
"The Emulex InSpeed SOC 320 is a key element of our newest Switched Drive Module, helping to improve Fibre Channel drive loop resiliency and performance by reducing node delays (loop latency)," said Bill Brant, Engenio Vice President of Engineering. "By reducing the number of nodes on the drive loop, the switched drive module provides linearly scalable performance in large configurations."
The Engenio switched drive module also offers improved reliability, availability and serviceability (RAS). By integrating the InSpeed SOC 320, Engenio brings point-to-point switched connectivity and enhanced drive-level diagnostics to the individual drives in the storage array.
"Engenio has created an exciting new switched drive module that leverages InSpeed technology to bring users an enhanced suite of diagnostics and management capabilities," said Mike Smith, executive vice president of worldwide marketing for Emulex Corporation. "For Emulex, Engenio's implementation of our InSpeed technology represents another validation point and brings us a new storage industry leader as a customer for our embedded switch technology."
About the Emulex InSpeed SOC 320 Embedded Storage Switch
The InSpeed SOC 320 serves as the core technology for Emulex's 2 Gb/s embedded storage switch products. Features of the InSpeed SOC 320-based family of embedded storage switch products include:
-- 20-ports, 2 or 1 Gb/s per port speeds
-- Automatic Trunking fully multiples bandwidth with failover
pathing
-- Fairness & Prioritization eliminates "drive starvation" problems
Advanced diagnostics, performance monitoring and fault isolation
automatically ensure maximum storage system availability
-- Compatible with InSpeed Embedded Storage Switches and other
InSpeed SOC's to deliver fully switched infrastructures for
ultimate RAS and performance
For more information on the Emulex InSpeed SOC 320, please visit www.emulex.com.
About Emulex
Emulex Corporation is the world leader in Fibre Channel HBAs and delivers a broad range of intelligent building blocks for next generation storage networking systems. Emulex was named one of Forbes Magazine's 25 Fastest Growing Technology Companies, and ranked number 15 in Deloitte & Touche's 2003 Technology Fast 50.
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, Engenio, Fujitsu Ltd., Fujitsu Siemens, Groupe Bull, HP, Hitachi Data Systems, 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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