Cisco qualifies Emulex host bus adapters for use with its Cisco MDS 9000 Family.Emulex Corp. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :ELX Elx, Spain: see Elche. ) recently announced its LightPulse family of HBAs, including the award-winning PCI-X (PCI eXtended) An enhanced PCI bus technology originally developed by IBM, HP and Compaq that is backward compatible with existing PCI cards. PCI and 32-bit PCI-X slots are physically the same, and PCI cards can plug into PCI-X slots. LP9802 and 2Gb/s LP9002L, are tested and qualified by Cisco Systems (Nasdaq:CSCO CSCO Cisco Systems Incorporated (stock symbol) CSCO Chief Supply Chain Officer ) for use with its Cisco MDS MDS, n See temporomandibular pain-dysfunction syndrome. MDS 1 Maternal deprivation syndrome, see there 2 Myelodysplastic syndrome, see there 9000 Family of Multilayer Directors and Fabric Switches. The qualification of Emulex HBAs is a result of rigorous testing conducted at Cisco's state-of-the-art interoperability lab, and ensures complete compatibility of Emulex host bus adapters and Cisco MDS 9000 Family. "Qualification of Emulex's market-leading HBAs ensures that the Cisco MDS 9000 Family are compatible with both Emulex's large installed base of more than 900,000 HBAs and new SAN infrastructure deployments," said Bill Erdman, director of Technology Alliances in the Storage Technology Group at Cisco. "We look forward to continuing our close working relationship with Emulex, and are confident that the two companies' industry-leading products deliver the robust features and functionality that our mutual customers demand." The Emulex family of HBAs offers a unique firmware-based architecture and operating system driver compatibility across Emulex's entire HBA (Host Bus Adapter) See host adapter. product line, which provides customers with a simplified upgrade path, reduced management complexities and ensures a lower total cost of ownership. The Emulex LP9802 and LP9002L are also fully compatible with drivers that support Emulex's new centralized HBA management suite, HBAnyware, which utilizes driver-based technology to enable complete management of Emulex HBAs and the ability to upgrade firmware anywhere in a SAN from a single console. "Cisco's qualification of our Fibre Channel HBAs reinforces that Emulex delivers the industry's leading SAN connectivity solutions that enterprises require for high-performance data storage environments," said Mike Smith, Emulex executive vice president of worldwide marketing. "Emulex is fully committed to ongoing collaboration to ensure not only the highest levels of interoperability, but the broad and successful deployment of industry-leading SAN solutions." Emulex is a supplier and developer of storage networking host bus adapters based on both Fibre Channel and IP networking technologies. The Emulex product families are based on internally developed ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Circuit) Pronounced "a-sick." A chip that is custom designed for a specific application rather than a general-purpose chip such as a microprocessor. , firmware and software technologies. |
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