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Emulex Wins 2011 Golden Bridge Award for Best Convergence Technology
Recognized for New Emulex Engine™ 201 I/O Controller
COSTA MESA, Calif., Aug. 16, 2011 – Emulex Corporation (NYSE:ELX), the leader in converged networking solutions, today announced that the Golden Bridge Business Awards (formerly the Network Products Guide Innovation Awards), has named the
Emulex Engine™ (XE)201 I/O Controller as the winner in the “Innovation in Information Technology: Convergence” category of the 3rd Annual Golden Bridge Awards. Winners were honored in New York on Wednesday, August 10, 2011.
“We're honored to be recognized by the Golden Bridge Awards for the XE201 I/O Controller, which is the industry's first quad-port controller unifying Fibre Channel and Ethernet,” said Shaun Walsh, vice president of marketing, Emulex. “The XE201 leverages vScale™, which enables up to 256 virtual functions, vPath™ support for emerging I/O standards like Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV) and vEngine ™, which reduce CPU burden on the host server by 25 percent, all functionality that truly address the promise of convergence."
The Emulex XE201 I/O Controller is the industry’s first converged fabric controller capable of offering OEMs the choice of 16Gb/s Fibre Channel or 10Gb Ethernet (10GbE) with protocol support for RDMA over Converged Enhanced Ethernet (RoCE), Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) and iSCSI, as well as 40Gb Ethernet (40GbE) connectivity. For both server initiators and storage targets, the XE201 supports up to four channels of 8Gb/s Fibre Channel, two channels of 16Gb/s Fibre Channel, four ports of 10GbE, one port of 40Gb Ethernet (40GbE) and combinations of the above, providing an unprecedented level of flexibility and scalability for today's expanding data centers.
The Golden Bridge Awards encompass the world’s best in organizational performance, products and services, and executives and management teams. The program is designed to recognize leaders in innovation, case studies, product management and several other areas, across major global industries.
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About Emulex
Emulex, the leader in converged networking solutions, provides enterprise-class connectivity for servers, networks and storage devices within the data center. The Company's product portfolio of Fibre Channel host bus adapters, network interface cards, converged network adapters, controllers, embedded bridges and switches, and connectivity management software are proven, tested and trusted by the world's largest and most demanding IT environments. Emulex solutions are used and offered by the industry's leading server and storage OEMs including, Cisco, Dell, EMC, Fujitsu, Hitachi, Hitachi Data Systems, HP, Huawei, IBM, NEC, NetApp and Oracle. Emulex is headquartered in Costa Mesa, Calif., and has offices and research facilities in North America, Asia and Europe. Emulex is listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE:ELX). News releases and other information about Emulex is available at www.Emulex.com.
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