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To: w2j2 who wrote (141)	10/28/1998 12:58:00 PM
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COSTA MESA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 28, 1998--Emulex Corp. (NASDAQ:EMLX), a leader in gigabit fibre channel, printer server and network access products, Wednesday announced that Michael E. Smith, formerly the marketing manager for Fibre Channel Products at Adaptec Inc., has joined Emulex as its senior director of Fibre Channel Marketing. "Mike brings a wealth of experience in both I/O and fibre channel marketing which will significantly augment our emerging fibre channel sales effort," said Paul F. Folino, president and chief executive officer of Emulex. Prior to joining Adaptec, Mike spent 10 years with Western Digital Corp., most recently as their Director, Marketing I/O Solutions. "Having spent most of this decade in the I/O industry, he is technically astute and well versed in fibre channel technologies. We expect that Mike's decade-long track record in I/O and fibre channel technologies will further enhance our ability to penetrate emerging fibre channel market opportunities, and we look forward to him joining our senior management team," added Folino. Emulex is a leading designer of high-performance network connectivity products including fibre channel, printer server and network access products. The company's hardware and software-based networking solutions improve communication in computer networks and enhance data flow between computers and peripherals. Fibre channel is a high-performance ANSI standard interface that is supported by the 120+ worldwide member Fibre Channel Association that includes Sun, Hewlett-Packard and Seagate. As a leading developer and supplier of fibre channel technology, Emulex's fibre channel devices support all implementations of the fibre channel standard, including arbitrated loop, switched fabric and point-to-point topologies. The company markets to OEMs and end users through its own worldwide selling organization, as well as two-tier distribution partners. Corporate headquarters are located in Costa Mesa.

To: w2j2 who wrote (141)	11/12/1998 11:33:00 AM
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Starter Kits Provide the Critical Components for FC-AL COSTA MESA, Calif., Nov. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Emulex Corporation (NASDAQ:EMLX), an industry leader in fibre channel technology and products, announced today the availability of a Fibre Channel DHub(TM) Starter Kit which provides the key components necessary to set up and evaluate fibre channel technology as the solution for server-to-storage area networking applications such as real time disaster recovery, LAN-free backup, and data warehousing. "Fibre Channel provides significant performance increases over today's legacy server and storage implementations. Arbitrated loop topology is one of the most cost effective fibre channel solution for emerging storage networking applications," stated Mike Kane, marketing director for Emulex. "Emulex's new industry leading digital re-timing hub is a revolutionary new tool which enables loop integrity and stability, seamless growth and enhanced manageability for OEMs, systems integrators, and IT administrators of fibre channel systems," Kane added. "The Emulex LH5000 Fibre Channel Hub is the industry's first truly digital re-timing hub and provides significant enhancements in loop management by offering the system administrator three management interfaces as standard features. These interfaces are an industry standard SNMP agent, an embedded web server, and a command line interface via RS232 or telnet console. Using the DHub as a key element in the SAN eliminates signal jitter and invalid transmissions enabling loop integrity and stability," stated Kirk Roller, vice president of sales for Emulex. "The DHub starter kit provides users with a simple and cost effective way to test fibre channel in their individual application," he continued. The promotional kits include one Emulex DHub (copper or GBIC) and two of Emulex's LP7000E PCI fibre channel host bus adapters. The full duplex gigabit LP7000E is the fibre channel adapter of choice for many of the leading server and storage OEMs due to its industry leading I/O performance over long distances; its direct fabric and FL port capabilities for maximum performance in fabric/switch environments; and, its multi-protocol operation in various operating environments. The FCLOOP+/C is the model for the starter kit for copper interconnections and includes one 10-port copper DHub (LH5010) and two (2) LP7000E-T1 host bus adapters. The FCLOOP+/O is the kit for optical configurations which consists of the LH5000 DHub, an 8-port GBIC version with 2 fixed copper ports, two (2) multi-mode shortwave GBICs, and two (2) LP7000E-N1 host bus adapters. A special direct factory pricing promotion is available on the evaluation kits until December 31, 1998. Both kits have been reduced by more than 50% from the standard list prices if the adapters and DHub were purchased separately. The FCLOOP+/C, copper kit, is priced at $2495.00US and the FCLOOP+/O, optical kit, is priced at $3495.00US. Since this is a special promotion for enabling evaluation, certain restrictions apply such as only one kit per company per site location for end-users and resellers.