Emulex's SBus Fibre Channel Host Adapter Receives Solaris Ready Certification From Sun Microsystems

Business Wire, Dec 19, 2000

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COSTA MESA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 19, 2000

Emulex is First Company to Receive Sun's Certification for Both PCI

and SBus Fibre Channel Host Adapters

Emulex Corp. (Nasdaq:EMLX), the world's largest independent supplier of Fibre Channel host bus adapters, Tuesday announced its LightPulse(TM) SBus LP8000S host adapters have been awarded the "Solaris(TM) Ready" certification from Sun Microsystems Inc. (Nasdaq:SUNW) for Sun SPARC(TM) Enterprise servers running the highly reliable and scalable Solaris(TM) Operating Environment.

The Solaris Ready certification program recognizes "best-of-breed" products that have passed testing criteria defined and controlled by Sun. Emulex's LP8000S joins its PCI-based LP8000 host adapter in receiving Sun's certification, which positions Emulex as the only company to have received the Solaris Ready logo for both PCI and SBus Fibre Channel host adapters.

"Our qualification process consists of a rigorous series of tests, and Emulex's SBus host adapters demonstrate the performance and quality that Sun servers demand," said Nicola Krest, Solaris Ready I/O marketing manager, Sun Microsystems. "The Solaris Ready logo ensures Emulex's customers that the product has been verified to operate in Sun's Solaris Operating Environment SPARC Platform Edition."

The Solaris Ready logo allows customers to readily identify third-party products as easy to install and interoperable within Sun's Solaris Operating Environment. Customers can benefit from this program in terms of increased user satisfaction, improved productivity, high system availability and reduced interoperability conflicts.

"The Solaris Ready program certification of both our SBus and PCI host adapters assures Solaris Operating Environment users that Emulex designs its market-leading host adapters with the robustness that Sun's rigorous qualification tests demand," said Mike Smith, vice president of worldwide marketing for Emulex.

"We are pleased to become the first company to receive Sun's certification for both SBus and PCI Fibre Channel host adapters."

Emulex LightPulse Host Bus Adapters

Emulex's LightPulse family of host adapters provide a unique combination of features required for mission-critical enterprise applications, including full fabric support, high data integrity, full-duplex operation, data buffering for up to 100km of cabling and support for all Fibre Channel topologies.

The company's host adapters are also supported by a rich suite of software 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 NT and 2000, Solaris, AIX, UnixWare and NetWare.

The Emulex Fibre Channel family includes the 2 Gb/s LP9002 host adapter, SBus-based LP8000S host adapter, LP8000 host adapter, LP950 and LP850 host adapters, the high-performance PCI-based LP7000E and the industry's first digital re-timing hub, the LH5000 series. For more information about Emulex's Fibre Channel products, visit http://www.emulex.com/fc/index.html.> About Emulex

Emulex 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), network attached storage (NAS) and RAID.

The company's products are based on internally developed ASIC technology, and are deployable across a variety of SAN configurations, system buses 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.

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. News releases and other information about Emulex are available via the Internet at http://www.emulex.com.

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