Emulex Offers 10GBASE-T Connectivity for its

OneConnect UCNAs
COSTA MESA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Emulex
Corporation (NYSE:ELX) today announced the availability of 10GBASE-T
adapters as part of its next-generation Emulex OneConnect(TM)
10Gb Ethernet (10GbE) Universal Converged Network Adapter (UNCA) family,
providing 10GbE connectivity over twisted pair cables, reducing
deployment costs, increasing deployment simplicity and delivering
investment protection. The OCe11102-NT
NIC and OCe11102-IT
iSCSI adapters are ideally suited for data centers that are using
twisted pair cabling and are transitioning from 1GbE to 10GbE
infrastructure. For customers deploying 10GbE in their data centers
today, the ability to use existing 10GBASE-T Cat 6a cabling versus
optical cabling makes 10GbE performance less cost prohibitive, yielding a
37% savings.

"By expanding our 10GbE offerings with 10GBASE-T solutions, we're now
delivering 10x the performance at a fraction of the price of ten 1GbE
NICs, lowering overall cost of deployment for 10GbE networking," said

Shaun Walsh, vice president of marketing, Emulex. "Combined with

solutions from our ecosystem partners, 10GBASE-T is now a reality and we
anticipate it will contribute to the rapid acceleration of 10GbE market
adoption."
The OCe11102-NT NIC and OCe11102-IT iSCSI adapters include the following
benefits and features:
Reduced Deployment Cost: With 10GBASE-T, Emulex is delivering
10GbE performance at half the cost per Gigabit of deploying 1GbE,
including fewer switches, cables and adapters. Additionally, customers
will receive power savings using fewer links.
Deployment Simplicity: Using industry-standard twisted pair
cables, OCe11102-NT and OCe11102-IT adapters can be used with Cat 6
and Cat 6a network cabling already deployed in data centers today, and
are backwards compatible with existing 1GbE Ethernet networks.
Optimized for Virtualized Environments: Emulex's Universal
Multi-Channel (UMC) capabilities enable IT managers to have switch
independent NIC partitioning that enables multiple PCI functions for
each OneConnect 10GbE adapter port, which can then be assigned to
optimize virtual server deployments. A dual-port OneConnect 10GBASE-T
adapter provides eight logical NICs, allowing the replacement of two
quad-port 1GbE NICs with a single, lower cost 10GBASE-T card.
iSCSI over Data Center Bridging (DCB): Emulex's Enterprise
iSCSI technology supports IEEE DCB standards that ensure consistent
iSCSI performance over a converged, lossless Ethernet network. Using
DCB, Emulex iSCSI adapters support bandwidth allocation between
network and storage traffic groups to optimize use of a

high-performance 10GbE infrastructure. For customers still using iSCSI

over 1GbE, the OCe11102-IT adapter future-proofs deployments, making
them 10GbE ready at a similar cost to 1GbE iSCSI HBAs.
Manageable I/O: By sharing a single driver model, Emulex I/O
solutions can be controlled, configured and managed from a single
console using OneCommand(TM)
Manager. Consolidated management capabilities enable enterprise
scalability with time-saving features that provide more than twice the
adapter management functionality and take half the time to install and
manage compared to other I/O solutions1. In addition, the OneCommand(TM)
Manager plug-in for VMware vCenter(TM) lets users manage Emulex
adapters directly from the vCenter console for reduced complexity and
is the only adapter that integrates with VMware management tools.
The Emulex 10GBASE-T OCe11102-NT NICs ($882 MSRP) and OCe11102-IT iSCSI
adapters ($1049 MSRP) are available now.
Supporting Quotes:
"The 1GbE-10GbE transition is at an inflection point and 10GBASE-T's
broad interoperability and ability to leverage existing data center
cabling lowers the cost of 10GbE and accelerates adoption this year and
next," said Ed Chapman, vice president of Business Development, Arista
Networks. "Emulex and Arista Networks' support of 10GBASE-T connectivity
makes 10GbE a reality for data centers."
"As a pioneer in 10GBASE-T technology, Extreme Networks is pleased to
work with Emulex as they bring cost effective 10GBASE-T connectivity
solutions to market, completing the ecosystem to the server," said
Shehzad Merchant, vice president of technology, Extreme Networks. "In

today's data center networks, traffic is exploding and 10GBASE-T

provides one of the best low cost infrastructure options. By combining
our high performance 10GBASE-T switches, such as the BlackDiamond 8800
and Summit X650, with Emulex's new UCNAs, customers can more easily
deploy their 10GbE networks."
"Reducing cabling complexity is a huge part of the drive towards data
center consolidation today and 10GBASE-T simplifies the physical
infrastructure, lowering costs and increasing operational efficiency,"
said Tom Walsh, Director - Copper Products, Panduit. "Emulex's new
10GBASE-T cards offer a tenfold speed increase and interoperability with
Cat6/6a cabling, which is necessary to ensure more customers can use the
infrastructure they already have, which remains a data center priority."
"10GBASE-T represents a technology inflection point in the 10GbE market
that will spur adoption in the volume rack server market," said Seamus
Crehan, president, Crehan
Research. "As Emulex and others ship 10GBASE-T adapters, we predict
that adoption will start to pick up during the first half of 2012,
driven by price, performance and next-generation server shipments."
1. Based
on Emulex Labs benchmark testing
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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. More
information about Emulex (NYSE:ELX) is available at www.Emulex.com.
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