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To: Gus who wrote (80)	9/25/2000 6:40:36 PM
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McDATA's ED-5000 Director Qualifies for Use with HP-UX Solutions Industry-Defining, Director-Class Switch Interoperable with HP 9000 Next-Generation Fibre Channel Adapter BROOMFIELD, Colo., Sep 25, 2000 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- McDATA(R) Corporation (Nasdaq: MCDT chart, msgs), a leading storage area network (SAN) company, announced today its ED-5000 Director switch has been certified for use with Hewlett-Packard Company's HP-UX SAN solutions. The McDATA ED-5000 Director has been tested in a high-availability environment for interoperability with HP's next-generation PCI tachlite Fibre Channel adapter. The adapter is enabled with fabric login functionality and allows users to deploy HP 9000 servers in a highly available and scalable switched-fabric SAN environment using McDATA's ED-5000 Director. "HP recognizes McDATA's strength in the high-end of the Fibre Channel SAN market and the need to work seamlessly in these environments to deliver complete SAN solutions to our customers," said Vish Mulchand, product marketing manager for HP 9000 servers at HP's Business Critical Computing Business Unit. *"McDATA's proven ability to certify interoperable solutions in their advanced systems integration lab has been a valuable step in the qualification of our switched fabric driver."* "McDATA is pleased to work with HP's Business Critical Computing Business Unit to create enterprise SANs based on their high-end server platforms," said Jeff Vogel, McDATA vice president of solutions and systems integration services. "Enterprise customers continue to benefit from these alliances, where end-to-end certified solutions meet critical business requirements." "With its industry-recognized FabricReady program, McDATA eliminates a tremendous amount of risk and time to deploy enterprise class Fibre Channel solutions while ensuring the highest level of interoperability for our SAN environment," said Don Fike, Technical Director of FedEx Services Corporation. "We're pleased McDATA and HP worked together towards ensuring the technology met our enterprise requirements, enabling us to take advantage of SAN benefits on our HP systems." McDATA's ED-5000 Director offers 32-port, any server-to-any storage dynamic switching, 100 MB/second full duplex performance per port, industry standard Class 2 and 3 Fibre Channel technology and longer connections -- from two meters to industry-leading 100 kilometers. Networks gain 24x7 reliability through the ED-5000's high availability, hardware redundancy of major critical components, hot swapping, automatic internal fail-over protection, built-in fault detection and isolation, and non-disruptive maintenance, firmware loads and upgrades. At the core of an enterprise SAN strategy, the McDATA ED-5000 provides a cost effective solution. Its unrivalled 99.999 percent high availability and core-to-edge management can save significant dollars by decreasing the time IT managers spend on storage network failures, maintenance and administration. The ED-5000 consolidates distributed workgroup storage configurations -- mini SANs -- into a single, enterprise-wide SAN, eliminating the need to keep adding direct-attached servers. At the same time, its scalability to enterprise levels ensures efficient and effective management. Management McDATA's Java-based EFC Manager software program allows IT administrators to remotely manage and troubleshoot up to 36 switches -- including data-center directors and edge-server consolidators -- from a single console. The ED-5000's e-port (switch-to-switch protocol) capability allows administrators to visually map how all switches are connected, allowing them to focus on sub-groups within the overall SAN and graphically view deeper levels of activity at each individual switch. This allows better understanding of traffic flow, and makes any necessary adjustments to optimize performance. About McDATA McDATA provides highly available, scalable and centrally managed SAN solutions that address enterprise-wide storage problems. Leading the market with industry-defining director-class switches, McDATA's end-to-end SAN solutions improve the reliability and availability of data, greatly simplifying SAN management and reducing the total cost of ownership. These extensively pre-tested SAN solutions provide IT organizations with the comprehensive tools, methodologies and support essential to robust SAN implementation. McDATA distributes its products through its OEMs, network of resellers and Elite Solution Partners. For more information on McDATA, visit its web site at mcdata.com . siliconinvestor.com