ADVISORY/Emulex Executive Speaks On Future of Fibre Channel at FCTC Conference in San Jose, Oct. 16-18.

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ADVISORY...for Tuesday-Wednesday (Oct. 16-17)

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Emulex Corp. (Nasdaq:EMLX)

WHAT:   Mike Smith, executive vice president of worldwide marketing
        for Emulex Corp., is participating in two panel discussions at
        the Fibre Channel Technologies Conference (FCTC), Oct. 16-18,
        2001, at The Doubletree Hotel in San Jose, Calif. Smith will
        speak on "The Role of the Host Bus Adapter (HBA) within a
        Storage Area Network (SAN)" as part of a multi-vendor session
        starting at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, Oct. 16. Smith will also be
        among the panelists speaking about the "Future of Fibre
        Channel" which begins at 8:30 a.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 17.

        Emulex is exhibiting at FCTC in booth 101, where the company
        will demonstrate multiple generations of its HBAs to showcase
        a single driver interface, which eases the complexities of
        SAN management and enables seamless migration to next
        generation HBAs. The Emulex LightPulse LP9002L is designed
        for "thin" servers (1u and 2u heights) and its features
        include large buffer-to-buffer credits, enabling the HBA to
        maintain throughput at distances of up to 20km; and backward
        compatibility with existing 1Gb/s storage networking
        solutions.

WHEN:   Session 101 -- Storage Area Networks     10:30 a.m. to noon,
                                                 Tuesday, Oct. 16
        Session 201 -- Future of Fibre Channel   8:30 a.m. to 10 a.m.,
                                                 Wednesday, Oct. 17
        Booth 101 (Emulex) exhibition hours      Noon to 6:30 p.m.,
                                                 Tuesday, Oct. 16
                                                 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.,
                                                 Wednesday, Oct. 17

WHERE:  Fibre Channel Technologies Conference (FCTC) 2001,
        The Doubletree Hotel, San Jose, Calif.

About Emulex

Emulex Corp. (Nasdaq:EMLX) is a leading supplier and developer of storage and server networking host bus adapters based on both Fibre Channel and IP networking technologies. Storage networks provide data centers with high-speed, scalable and highly available storage access. Server networks enable the creation of high-performance server clusters for database and transaction processing.

The Emulex product families are based on internally developed ASIC, firmware and software technologies, and offer customers high performance, scalability, flexibility and reduced total cost of ownership. The company's products have been selected by the world's leading server and storage providers, including Compaq, Dell, EMC, Fujitsu-Siemens, Groupe Bull, Hewlett-Packard Co., Hitachi Data Systems, IBM, NEC, Network Appliance and Unisys.

In addition, Emulex includes industry leaders Brocade, INRANGE, Intel, Legato, McDATA, Microsoft and Veritas among its strategic partners.

Emulex markets to OEMs and end users through its own worldwide selling organization, as well as its two-tier distribution partners, including ACAL, Avnet, Bell Microproducts, Consan, CTC, Info-X, Tech Data, TidalWire and Tokyo Electron. Corporate headquarters are located in Costa Mesa, Calif. News releases and other information about Emulex are available at www.emulex.com.

EMULEX -- We network storage

"Safe Harbor" Statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995: With the exception of historical information, the statements set forth above include forward-looking statements that involve risk and uncertainties. The company wishes to caution readers that a number of important factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements. Those factors include the rapidly changing nature of technology, evolving industry standards and frequent introductions of new products and enhancements by competitors; fluctuation in the growth of the Fibre Channel and IP markets; changes in economic conditions or changes in end-user demand for technology solutions; fluctuations or delays in customer orders; the highly competitive nature of the markets for Emulex's products; Emulex's ability to gain market acceptance for its products; the company's ability to attract and retain skilled personnel; the company's reliance on third-party suppliers. These and other factors which could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements are also discussed in the company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including its recent filings on Forms 10-K and 10-Q.