Emulex LP9002DC Dual Channel Host Bus Adapter Achieves Solaris Ready Certification From Sun Microsystems

Business Wire, April 1, 2002

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COSTA MESA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 1, 2002

Emulex Remains Only Supplier to Earn Solaris Ready Certification for

its 1Gb/s and 2Gb/s cPCI, PCI And SBus Fibre Channel HBAs

Emulex Corp. (Nasdaq:EMLX), the world's leading supplier of storage networking host bus adapters (HBAs), today announced that its LightPulse 2Gb/s LP9002DC dual channel Fibre Channel HBA has achieved the Solaris(TM) Ready Certification from Sun Microsystems Inc. (Nasdaq:SUNW).

With the Solaris Ready designation for the LP9002DC, Emulex adds its dual channel PCI HBA to its product line that has received the Solaris Ready qualification for cPCI, PCI and SBus Fibre Channel HBAs, including the 2Gb/s LP9002L and LP9002C, market-leading LP8000 and SBus-based LP8000S HBAs.

"Sun has a long history of working with Emulex to provide customers with a broad range of storage networking products," said Patric Chang, director, market development engineering, Sun Microsystems.

"Emulex's experience and product reputation in combination with the comprehensive resources offered by Sun, illustrate how the Sun Developer Connection(SM) Partner Program is the shortest distance between development (code) and sales (currency)."

The Solaris Ready branding program is designed to provide customers a recognizable symbol for tested Solaris platform solutions from third-party solution providers. To receive the Solaris Ready designation, products must complete a rigorous testing process conducted by an independent testing laboratory.

Products are evaluated for interoperability, platform support, Solaris platform compliance, ease-of-installation, driver compatibility and product documentation.

"Solaris Ready certification is a significant achievement because it demonstrates that our customers can easily connect storage networking solutions with Sun's robust line of servers," said Mike Smith, executive vice president of worldwide marketing for Emulex. "We will continue working closely with Sun to certify and deploy highly scalable solutions for the enterprise."

The Emulex family of Fibre Channel HBAs, including the recently qualified LP9002DC, offers firmware upgradeability to protect customers' investments and a unique driver architecture that enables driver compatibility across Emulex's entire product line, which significantly reduces SAN management complexity.

The 2Gb/s dual channel LP9002DC offers high-performance channels on a single HBA, enabling greater SAN connectivity for PCI-based servers.

The Emulex Family of Host Bus Adapters

The Emulex family of HBAs offers high performance, standards-based connectivity solutions for both Fibre Channel and Internet protocol (IP) storage networking environments. Emulex host bus adapters provide a unique combination of features required for mission-critical enterprise environments that deliver reliability, high bandwidth, server CPU offload, low latency and scalable connectivity.

For information about how Emulex HBAs increase SAN productivity and efficiency, visit the Emulex Web site and download the IDC whitepaper titled, "Measuring the HBA's Role in SAN Management."

The Emulex LightPulse family of Fibre Channel HBAs offers 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 Emulex LightPulse family of Fibre Channel products includes the 2Gb/s LP9002L and LP952L, low profile HBAs, the 2Gb/s LP9002C CompactPCI HBA, the 2Gb/s LP9002S SBus-based HBA and the market-leading LP8000.

The Emulex family of IP-based storage networking host bus adapters includes the recently announced GN9000/SI iSCSI host bus adapter and the GN9000/VI VI/IP host bus adapter. The Emulex GN9000/SI is designed to provide the high-performance iSCSI connectivity over gigabit Ethernet for PCI-based systems.

The Emulex GN9000/VI VI/IP HBA enables network attached storage (NAS) appliances and hosts to exchange file system data over IP networks, while gaining the high throughput, low latency and reduced CPU overhead benefits of the virtual interface (VI) architecture. For more information on the Emulex product families, visit www.emulex.com.

About Sun Developer Connection Partner Program

Building on Sun's vision to enable services on demand with the latest open technologies, the Sun Developer Connection (SDC) offers individual developers and software development partners a single, worldwide entry point to build a technical and business relationship with Sun.

As one of the largest developer communities in the world, the SDC is the connection to Sun for comprehensive resources to build and market solutions leveraging Sun's open technologies, products, business development and community forums. All programs, registration and eligibility information can be found at http://www.sun.com/sdc.> About Emulex

Emulex is a leading supplier and developer of storage networking host bus adapters based on both Fibre Channel and IP networking technologies. 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.