Emulex LP9002DC 2Gb/s Dual Channel Host Bus Adapter Qualified With EMC Symmetrix Storage Systems as E-Lab Tested

Business Wire, Feb 19, 2002

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Emulex Corp. (Nasdaq:EMLX), the world's leading supplier of storage networking host bus adapters (HBAs), today announced that EMC Corp. (NYSE:EMC) has qualified the Emulex LightPulse 2Gb/s LP9002DC dual channel HBA as E-Lab Tested(TM) for use with its Symmetrix(R) Enterprise Storage systems and Connectrix(TM) family of Fibre Channel products in Windows 2000 environments.

EMC's qualification adds the LP9002DC to the list of Emulex 2Gb/s and 1Gb/s connectivity solutions previously qualified by EMC.

EMC conducts the industry's most comprehensive testing, assuring customers the highest level of interoperability assurance. EMC's E-Lab Tested qualification process is a series of exhaustive performance and reliability tests to ensure the interoperability of all components that make up a multi-vendor information storage network. In addition to EMC's qualification, the Emulex LP9002DC also earned Microsoft's WHQL certification for Windows 2000 operating environments.

"In EMC's E-Labs, engineers replicate customer environments -- using 2,600 terabytes of storage across nearly five acres of floor space," said Chuck Hollis, Vice President of Markets and Products at EMC. "E-Lab Tested assures customers that Emulex HBAs, including the LP9002DC, are fully interoperable with EMC information storage systems, enabling customers to deploy heterogeneous storage networks, quickly reliably and cost-effectively."

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 compatibility of a single driver 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 Symmetrix product lines are among the world's leading enterprise storage solutions, and Emulex is pleased that EMC has qualified the LP9002DC as a Fibre Channel connectivity solution," said Mike Smith, executive vice president of Worldwide Marketing for Emulex. "Emulex HBAs provide EMC customers with simplified SAN management, investment protection and features that enable less planned downtime, which delivers on the promise of lower total cost of ownership."

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 at www.emulex.com 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. For more information on the Emulex product families, visit www.emulex.com.

About Emulex

Emulex Corp. 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 Co., 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, Info-X, Tech Data, TidalWire and Tokyo Electron. Corporate headquarters are located in Costa Mesa. News releases and other information about Emulex Corp. are available at www.emulex.com.

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