Fujitsu Siemens Selects Emulex 2Gb/s Host Bus Adapter as Connectivity Solution for PRIMERGY and PRIMEPOWER Servers

Business Wire, June 3, 2002

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COSTA MESA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 3, 2002

Agreement Further Solidifies Emulex's Long-Standing Relationship

With Fujitsu Siemens

Emulex Corp. (Nasdaq:EMLX), the world's leading supplier of storage networking host bus adapters (HBAs), today announced that its LightPulse 2Gb/s LP9002L Fibre Channel HBA has been selected by Fujitsu Siemens Computers for integration into its PRIMERGY and PRIMEPOWER server series.

Fujitsu's decision to utilize Emulex HBAs was based on the LP9002L's unique feature set, including driver compatibility across its entire product line and a firmware-based architecture, which help to lower the customer's total cost of ownership and reduce management complexity.

"Emulex consistently provides reliable and scalable connectivity solutions that we require to deliver best-in-class server and storage solutions to our customers," said Dieter Herzog, vice president of PRIMERGY Servers Product Division for Fujitsu Siemens. "Utilizing Emulex HBAs also ensures that the PRIMERGY and PRIMEPOWER server product lines deliver the speed and performance that is critical to our customers."

The Emulex LP9002L Fibre Channel PCI HBA supports 2Gb/s Fibre Channel data rates and also features automatic speed negotiation capability which allows complete backward compatibility with existing 1Gb/s Fibre Channel SANs, while allowing seamless upgrades as the industry moves beyond 2Gb/s SANs.

"Emulex is dedicated to providing robust solutions for the mid-range and enterprise markets, and this latest agreement with Fujitsu Siemens Computers further demonstrates our commitment to that goal," said Kirk Roller, Emulex chief operating officer.

"The PRIMERGY and PRIMEPOWER server and storage series combined with Emulex HBAs offers customers a high performance solution and seamless migration path to newer and faster technologies, which protects our customers' technology investments."

The Fujitsu Siemens PRIMEPOWER and PRIMERGY server and storage series offer business critical solutions for a wide range of applications and meet the needs of integrated multi-server environments.

Data centers, server consolidation and large enterprise storage systems are all provided for, with flexible storage solutions and high availability server clusters. PRIMEPOWER benchmarks prove it is also an ideal platform for ERP, CRM, data warehousing and supply chain applications.

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.

Emulex HBAs also offer a single operating system driver and a firmware-based architecture, which help to lower the customer's total cost of ownership and reduce management complexity, while enabling a seamless migration path to next generation technologies.

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."

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 LP9802 and LP982 PCI-X HBAs, the 2Gb/s LP9002L and LP952L PCI 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 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 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.

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.