Emulex Announces OEM Agreement With SGI: SGI to Resell Fibre Channel Hub; Industry's First Digital Re-Timing Hub Provides Superior Loop Performance and High Availability.COSTA MESA Costa Mesa (kŏs`tə mā`sə), city (1990 pop. 96,357), Orange co., S Calif., on the Pacific south of Santa Ana; inc. 1953. It is a transportation, residential, and light industrial center. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 26, 1999-- Emulex Corp. (Nasdaq:EMLX), a leader in digital fibre channel products and technology, Monday announced an agreement with SGI (SGI, Sunnyvale, CA, www.sgi.com) A manufacturer of workstations and servers, founded in 1982 by Jim Clark. The company was founded as Silicon Graphics, Inc., but changed to its acronym in 1999. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :SGI) to OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and the Emulex LightPulse(TM) LH5000 Digital Fibre Channel Hub. The Fibre Channel Hub will enable multi-node SGI(TM) Failsafe2.0 clustering solutions and cost-effective SGI(TM) Storage Area Network (SAN) interconnect solutions. "SGI selected the LightPulse LH5000 Digital Fibre Channel Hub for its unmatched port density and signal integrity made possible by its digital technology," said Anne Vincenti, director Storage & Network Marketing, Computer Systems Business Unit for SGI. "The LH5000 provides a unique combination of features to deliver the loop performance and availability our customers are demanding. Additionally, the LH5000 is capable of isolating faults that can disrupt loop operation, and can correct faults that may otherwise result in system downtime," she added. "We are pleased that SGI has chosen the LH5000 to be part of its high availability Also called "RAS" (reliability, availability, serviceability) or "fault resilient," it refers to a multiprocessing system that can quickly recover from a failure. There may be a minute or two of downtime while one system switches over to another, but processing will continue. and SAN solutions. SGI is a leader in delivering high-performance systems, and it continuously looks for ways to raise the bar. With this announcement, Emulex is positioned to expand our OEM customer base with its digital hub technology," said Mike Smith, senior director of fibre channel marketing for Emulex. Using the Emulex NL_Port 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. technology in its digital hub architecture, the LH5000 eliminates signal jitter A flicker or fluctuation in a transmission signal or display image. The term is used in several ways, but it always refers to some offset of time and space from the norm. For example, in a network transmission, jitter would be a bit arriving either ahead or behind a standard clock cycle and provides automatic clock speed matching on every port. As a result, LH5000 hubs can be cascaded, providing flexibility in network design and increasing potential cabling distances. The LH5000 can also be programmed to provide automatic LIP insertion, LIP F8 bypass, automatic bypass and check character integrity. The LH5000 also provides management statistics on a per port basis, including number of invalid transmission words, bit error rate and port down counts. Management of the LH5000 is provided via an HTML HTML in full HyperText Markup Language Markup language derived from SGML that is used to prepare hypertext documents. Relatively easy for nonprogrammers to master, HTML is the language used for documents on the World Wide Web. interface, compatible with most standard Web browsers, providing easy access to the hub status via a friendly GUI (Graphical User Interface) A graphics-based user interface that incorporates movable windows, icons and a mouse. The ability to resize application windows and change style and size of fonts are the significant advantages of a GUI vs. a character-based interface. interface. An SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) A widely used network monitoring and control protocol. Data are passed from SNMP agents, which are hardware and/or software processes reporting activity in each network device (hub, router, bridge, etc. compliant management agent is included which interprets, acts upon and replies to any SNMP request directed to its IP address. In addition to both the web manager and SNMP agent, a Command Line Interface is available via login to either the telnet or Ethernet port. The LH5000 is configured with a total of 10 fibre channel compliant ports in one half the width of a standard 1-u high 19-inch rack enclosure, making it the highest density managed hub available. This port density enables a multi-node (up to 8 nodes) SGI Failsafe2.0 cluster to seamlessly take over the workload of a failed node, thus enhancing application availability while minimizing the impact to application performance. Placing two LH5000 units side by side on the optional rack mounting kit, it is possible to provide 20 managed fibre channel ports in a standard 1-u rack slot. In addition to the Emulex branded LH5000 DHub(TM), which is available in both copper and GBIC (GigaBit Interface Converter) A hardware module used to attach network devices to fiber-based transmission systems such as Fibre Channel and Gigabit Ethernet. The GBIC converts the serial electrical signals to serial optical signals and vice versa. versions, Emulex's broad family of fibre channel product offerings address the needs of both mission-critical enterprise applications and direct connect storage links. Emulex is also the leading OEM supplier of full duplex PCI (1) (Payment Card Industry) See PCI DSS. (2) (Peripheral Component Interconnect) The most widely used I/O bus (peripheral bus). fibre channel adapters with a large installed base of LP8000, LP850, LP7000/E, LP6000/E and LP3000 customers. About Emulex Emulex is a leading designer, developer and supplier of a broad line of fibre channel host adapters, hubs, ASICs and software products that enhance access to, and storage of, electronic data and applications. The company's products are based on internally developed ASIC technology, are deployable across a variety of heterogeneous network configurations and operating systems, and enhance data flow between computers and peripherals. Emulex's products offer customers the unique combination of critical reliability, scalability, high performance and customization for mission-critical server and storage system applications. The company also markets traditional networking products such as printer servers and network access products, including communications servers and WAN adapters. Emulex 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. News releases and other information about Emulex are available via Emulex's World Wide Web address at http://www.emulex.com. ...I/O (Input/Output) The transfer of data between the CPU and a peripheral device. Every transfer is an output from one device and an input to another. See PC input/output. I/O - Input/Output by Emulex(TM) Note to Editors: SGI and the SGI logo are trademarks of Silicon Graphics Inc. This news release refers to various products and companies by their trade names. In most, if not all, cases these designations are claimed as trademarks or registered trademarks by their respective companies. |
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