EMC Corporation Adds Solaris to Growing List of Qualified Emulex Fibre Channel Host Adapter Operating Environments

Business Wire, Nov 23, 1999

COSTA MESA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 23, 1999--

LightPulse Host Adapters Are Now Available For Symmetrix Enterprise

Storage in Windows NT, AIX and Solaris Operating Environments

Emulex Corporation (Nasdaq:EMLX), an industry leader in fibre channel technology and products, announced today that EMC Corporation (NYSE:EMC)(www.emc.com) has qualified the Emulex LightPulse(TM) LP8000 and LP7000E host bus adapters for use with EMC Symmetrix Enterprise Storage systems in a Sun Solaris operating environment.

The Emulex family of host adapters are now qualified for use with EMC products in Windows NT, AIX and Solaris operating environments, providing customers with a common feature set and user interface across heterogeneous storage area networks (SANs).

"Emulex host adapters provide a comprehensive fibre channel connectivity for Symmetrix Enterprise Storage systems," said Mark Ward, EMC's Vice President of Global Marketing. "Today's announcement, together with Emulex's charter membership and continued support of the EMC-sponsored FibreAlliance, demonstrates both companies' commitment to delivering to the market high-performance, standards-based storage area network solutions."

"Emulex is committed to providing the most complete support available for enterprise storage connectivity. EMC customers can now use a single, high-performance host adapter family in complex, heterogeneous SANs to deliver high-performance, flexibility and scalability," stated Mike Smith, vice president of fibre channel marketing for Emulex Corporation. "EMC is a recognized leader in enterprise storage solutions and continues to strengthen its position with the success of its fibre channel products," he added.

Emulex LightPulse Products

Emulex has a broad family of fibre channel products designed to address the needs of both mission-critical enterprise applications and direct connect storage links. The market-leading LP8000, a 64-bit PCI-based host adapter, provides a unique combination of features required for mission-critical enterprise applications, including full fabric support using F_Port and FL_Port connections, high data integrity, full-duplex operation, data buffering to support up to 100km cabling, and support for all fibre channel topologies and service classes 2 and 3. The LP8000 features a GBIC or embedded physical interface, providing customers with flexibility to support a full range of cabling options, including copper, multi-mode fiber or single-mode fiber.

The recently introduced LP8000S enables Emulex to provide fibre channel connectivity to open storage suppliers that sell storage for Sun Microsystems S-Bus systems. Based on the LP8000, this adapter provides leading performance and features for S-Bus systems.

The Emulex fibre channel family also includes our high-performance LP7000E PCI host bus adapter, the open-server LP850 PCI host bus adapter, the price-performance optimized LP3000 PCI host bus adapter and the industry's first digital re-timing and fully managed hub, the LightPulse LH5000 series.

Emulex host adapters are supported by a rich suite of software, providing support for storage protocol (SCSI), network protocol (IP), as well as multi-protocol (SCSI & IP) operation, enabling the advanced SAN and network applications. Emulex provides a wide range of operating system support, including Windows NT, NetWare, Solaris, AIX, Linux and UnixWare.

About Emulex

Emulex Corporation is a leading designer, developer and supplier of a broad line of fibre channel host adapters, hubs, ASICs and software products that enhance access to, and storage of, electronic data and applications. The Company's products are based on internally developed ASIC technology, are deployable across a variety of heterogeneous network configurations and operating systems, and enhance data flow between computers and peripherals. Emulex's products offer customers the combination of critical reliability, scalability, high performance and customization for mission-critical server and storage system applications. The Company also markets traditional networking products such as printer servers and network access products, including communications servers and WAN adapters. Emulex markets to OEMs and end users through its own worldwide selling organization, as well as two-tier distribution partners. Corporate headquarters are located in Costa Mesa, California. News releases and other information about Emulex Corporation are available via the Internet at www.emulex.com

EMULEX -- the fibre channel company

EMC and Symmetrix are registered trademarks, and Enterprise Storage and Connectrix are trademarks of EMC Corporation.

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