COSTA MESA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 21, 1998--Emulex Corp.
(NASDAQ:EMLX), a leader in fibre channel products and technology, and
Groupe Bull, Louveciennes, France, Wednesday announced that Bull has
selected and qualified the Emulex LightPulse(TM) LP7000E PCI host
adapter as the fibre channel solution Bull will offer with their
Escala servers.
The LP7000E adapter is designed for optimizing full duplex
throughput, distance and reliability for those large and diverse
enterprise applications requiring gigabit connectivity.
Today, Bull is a leading provider of fibre channel technology on
AIX-based systems for commercial customers running mission critical
UNIX applications across the network. Bull's high-performance disaster
recovery, OLTP and data mining solutions address the need for physical
security of high-availability enterprise applications.
Available for immediate delivery, Bull's recently announced
Escala AIX-based Servers product line (EPC1200, EPC400 and T series)
integrates Emulex's LightPulse LP7000E PCI host adapters for
high-availability, full duplex gigabit fibre channel connectivity.
This provides access to Disk Array Systems with terabyte (Tbyte)
capacity at a distance of up to 10 kilometers and at very high
performance levels of 100 Mbytes/sec.
"We have validated very large customer configurations using fibre
channel in our laboratories. Using the enhanced Emulex LP7000E PCI
host adapters, real 10-kilometer full duplex connections between
Escala AIX-based systems and leading storage vendors' disk subsystems
have been verified. Significant improvement in terms of I/O
performance and distance over standard SCSI-based connections are
evident with these fibre channel solutions," stated Christian Guerin,
R&D director, XS Business Unit for Bull.
"Bull is an industry leader in AIX and systems integration and we
are pleased that Bull has again selected the Emulex LightPulse PCI
host adapters for their Escala SMP systems," said Mike Kane, director
of marketing for Emulex.
"As the demand for fibre channel products accelerates in Europe
over the next several quarters, Bull will play a key role in the
integration of fibre channel solutions," added Alan Wallman, managing
director for Emulex in Europe.
About Groupe Bull
Bull is an international IT group based in Europe with 21,000
people and operations in more than 100 countries. In 1997, Bull earned
revenues of $4.2 billion including over 65 percent outside of France,
its country of origin. Bull offers a wide range of systems,
infrastructure software and IT services through focused innovation,
alliances with the best partners and its own integration expertise.
In its industry, Bull is recognized for innovative products
including the Escala family of open servers, smart cards and software
such as OpenMaster for secure management of systems and networks. In
IT services, Bull is ranked in Europe as the third largest systems
integrator and fifth in maintenance and support services. Information
on Bull is available at: bull.com.
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