Emulex Fibre Channel Host Adapters Receive Solaris Ready Certification From Sun Microsystems Inc

Business Wire, August 3, 2000

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COSTA MESA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 3, 2000

`Solaris Ready' Logo Allows Users to Easily Identify

Emulex Host Adapters as Having Met Rigorous

Requirements Defined by Sun

Emulex Corporation (Nasdaq:EMLX), the world's largest independent supplier of fibre channel host bus adapters, announced today that the LightPulse(TM) LP9000, LP8000 and LP7000E PCI-based host adapters have been awarded the 'Solaris(TM) Ready' certification from Sun Microsystems Inc. (Nasdaq:SUNW) for Enterprise(TM) servers running the highly reliable and scalable Solaris(TM) Operating Environment. The Solaris Ready certification program allows customers to readily identify third-party products that are easy to install and inter-operate within Sun's Solaris Operating Environment. The Solaris Ready logo(TM) denotes the products that have passed testing criteria defined and controlled by Sun. Customers can benefit from this program in terms of increased user satisfaction, improved productivity, high system availability and reduced interoperability conflicts.

"The Solaris Ready logo ensures Emulex's customers that the product has been verified to operate in Sun's Solaris(TM) Operating Environment SPARC Platform Edition," said Nicola Krest, Solaris Ready I/O marketing manager, Sun Microsystems Inc.

"VERITAS Software has selected the Emulex LightPulse LP8000 fibre channel host adapter for use in the Sun StorEdge T3(TM) array demonstration. The Emulex driver which runs on the Solaris Operating Environment provided the advanced features necessary for enterprise-class support across multiple platforms and operating environments," said Prashat Dholakia, vice president, Foundation Product Group, VERITAS Software. "We are pleased to see that Emulex has also been recognized to receive the Solaris Ready program logo, to provide a fully tested solution for Sun(TM) system users," he added.

"The Solaris Ready program certification of The Emulex LP9000, LP8000 and LP7000E allows Solaris Operating Environment users to utilize the robust features and functionality of our fibre channel host adapters with confidence," said Mike Smith, vice president Worldwide Marketing for Emulex. "The Solaris Ready logo also allows customers to seamlessly incorporate the LightPulse adapters into the Solaris Operating Environment knowing that compatibility testing has been completed by Sun," he added.

Emulex LightPulse Host Adapters

Emulex has a broad family of fibre channel products designed to address the needs of mission-critical Enterprise applications. The market-leading LP8000 delivers world-class performance and unmatched interoperability for loop and switched SANs. This 64-bit PCI-based host adapter provides a unique combination of features, including:

-- full fabric support using F_Port and FL_Port connections

-- hardware context cache for superior fabric performance

-- support for multiple protocols (SCSI, IP, SB-2 and VI)

-- high data integrity

-- full-duplex data transfers for up to 200MB/s bandwidth

The LP8000 also features data buffering to support up to 100km cabling, support for all fibre channel topologies and support for multiple service classes (2 and 3). The LP8000 provides customers with flexibility to support a full range of cabling options, including copper, multi-mode fiber or single-mode fiber.

The LP8000 is 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 advanced SAN and network applications. Emulex provides a wide range of operating system support, including Windows 2000 and Windows NT, Solaris Operating Environment, AIX and NetWare.

The LP8000 is part of a broad family of fibre channel products offered by Emulex to address the needs of both mission-critical enterprise applications and open systems computing. The Emulex fibre channel family also includes our PCI-based 64-bit, 66 MHz LP9000 and LP950 host adapters, the high-performance LP7000E and open-server LP850 host adapters, the new 2Gb/s LP9002 host adapter family, the Sbus-based LP8000S host adapter and the industry's first digital re-timing hub, the LH5000 series.

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 provide connectivity solutions for fibre channel storage area networks (SAN). The company's products are based on internally developed ASIC technology, and are deployable across a variety of SAN configurations and operating systems, enhancing data flow between computers and peripherals. Emulex's products offer customers the unique combination of critical reliability, scalability, and high performance, and can be customized for mission-critical server and storage system applications. Emulex products have been selected by the world's leading server and storage providers, including Compaq, EMC, Fujitsu-Siemens, Groupe Bull, Hewlett-Packard, Hitachi Data Systems, IBM, NEC and Unisys. In addition, Emulex includes industry leaders Brocade, Intel, McDATA, Microsoft, Legato and Veritas among its strategic partners.