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Emulex Press Contact:
Katherine Lane, Director, Corporate Communications, 714-885-3828
Alacritech Press Contact:
Kathleen Bermea-Sullivan, IGNITE Consulting, +1 303-439-9365
Emulex and Alacritech Announce License Agreement for TCP Chimney Offload Technology
COSTA MESA, Calif., December 17, 2009 - Emulex Corporation (NYSE:ELX) and Alacritech, Inc., jointly announced today that the two companies have entered into a licensing agreement giving Emulex access to Alacritech's patent portfolio, including support for Microsoft's Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) Chimney architecture for its OneConnect™ Universal Converged Network Adapters (UCNAs).
"Emulex continues to garner design wins for its OneConnect UCNAs," said Steve Daheb, chief marketing officer and senior vice president of business development, Emulex. "We are pleased to be working with Alacritech to provide TCP Chimney offload support for our customers using Windows-based servers."
Emulex OneConnect UCNAs deliver the uncompromised performance of full hardware offload and acceleration for all three protocols (TCP/Internet Protocol (IP), Internet Small Computer System Interface (iSCSI) Adapters and Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) on a single-chip that is optimized to support both IP and storage networking demands. Emulex's OneConnect UCNAs enable data center managers to meet the performance and architecture requirements of networking, storage and clustering applications with one single integrated adapter solution.
"Alacritech is pleased to be working with Emulex," said Doug Rainbolt, Vice President of Marketing, Alacritech. "We have an important set of patents that enable improved Windows-based server performance through efficient network processing and it's great to see Emulex make use of this technology as an integral part of its OneConnect UCNA."
Learn more about network convergence and Emulex's OneConnect UCNAs, please visit: http://www.emulex.com/solutions/convergence.html
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About Emulex
Emulex is the leader in converged networking solutions for the data center. Our Connectivity Continuum architecture provides intelligent networking services that transition today’s infrastructure into tomorrow’s unified network ecosystem. Emulex provides a single framework that intelligently connects every server, network and storage device within the data center. Through strategic collaboration and integrated partner solutions, Emulex provides its customers with industry leading business value, operational flexibility and strategic advantage. Emulex is listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE:ELX) and has corporate headquarters in Costa Mesa, California. News releases and other information about Emulex Corporation are available at www.emulex.com.
About Alacritech
Alacritech is the leading provider of innovative technology that increases the speed, power and performance of servers, enabling a truly scalable network. Organizations that use Alacritech's proven technology are better able to reduce the burden of network processing on their server, scale to support more clients and applications, achieve higher performance and realize increased network utilization. Additional information about Alacritech is available at: www.alacritech.com.
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