ADVISORY/David R. Follett, Senior VP of Business Development, Emulex Corporation, Addresses Converging Data Center Interconnects At Network Storage 2001

Business Wire, June 14, 2001

News/Assignment Editors & High Tech Writers

ADVISORY...for Thursday (June 14)

--(BUSINESS WIRE)

WHAT: David R. Follett, Emulex Corporation's senior vice president
      of Business Development, will present to attendees of the
      Network Storage 2001 conference today. Follett discusses the
      evolution of SANs, NAS, clusters and appliances - and how each
      of these plays an important role in the data center
      interconnection. Presentation highlights include:

              --  The benefits of iSCSI and who should implement it

              --  How will Fibre Channel continue to advance

              --  How InfiniBand addresses the key challenges facing
                modern data centers

      In addition, Emulex Corporation is hosting an Internet
      protocol (IP) storage demonstration featuring its recently
      announced GN9000/SI iSCSI host bus adapter (HBA) and the new Cisco
      SN 5420 Storage Router at Emulex's booth at Network Storage 2001.
      Emulex demonstrates how block-level data may be accessed, via
      iSCSI technology, from a Fibre Channel storage area network (SAN)
      running over an IP network. The company also showcases its new
      LightPulse(R) LP9402DC PCI-X Fibre Channel host bus adapter and
      the LightPulse LP9002L low profile two Gigabit per second (2Gb/s)
      HBA. The Emulex LP9402DC supports 2Gb/s data rates on both
      channels, providing up to 800MB/s of link bandwidth capacity;
      while the Emulex LP9002L enables connectivity for the fast-growing
      "thin" server (1u and 2u heights) market.

WHEN: Presentation: Thursday, June 14, 2001, 8:30 a.m.- 12:00 p.m.


WHERE: Network Storage 2001 Conference
       Monterey Conference Center, Monterey, CA

CONTACT: Emulex Corporation
         Robin Schnug, Public Relations Manager
         714/513-8152
         robin.schnug@emulex.com

ABOUT EMULEX

Emulex Corporation (NASDAQ:EMLX) is a leading supplier and developer of storage and server networking host bus adapters based on both Fibre Channel and IP networking technologies. Storage networks provide data centers with high-speed, scalable, and highly available storage access. Server networks enable the creation of high-performance server clusters for database and transaction processing. The Emulex product families 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 Compaq, Dell, EMC, Fujitsu-Siemens, Groupe Bull, Hewlett-Packard, Hitachi Data Systems, IBM, NEC, Network Appliance and Unisys. In addition, Emulex includes industry leaders Brocade, INRANGE, Intel, Legato, McDATA, Microsoft, and Veritas among its strategic partners.

Emulex markets to OEMs and end users through its own worldwide selling organization, as well as its two-tier distribution partners, including ACAL, Avnet, Bell Microproducts, Consan, CTC, Info-X, Tech Data and TidalWire. Corporate headquarters are located in Costa Mesa, California. News releases and other information about Emulex Corporation are available at www.emulex.com.

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