Emulex Achieves Largest Year-over-Year Share Gain in 10GbE-Based Revenues and Continues to Lead in the 10GbE LOM Market

Company Gains Six Percent Fibre Channel Market Share over Its Nearest Competitor in the June Quarter and Four Percent Year-over-Year

COSTA MESA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Emulex Corporation (NYSE:ELX) today announced that it now leads the market in 10Gb Ethernet (10GbE) port market share, with over 30 percent share, and that it continues to lead the market in 10GbE LAN on Motherboard (LOM) revenue market share, according to the Crehan Research's Q2 2011 Server-class Adapter and LOM market share report and the Dell'Oro Group's Q2 2011 Network Controller and Adapter report.

Key points from these reports include:

• #1 in Year-over-Year 10GbE Revenue Share Gain: Emulex gained over seven percent share in total 10GbE-based product revenue market share, which includes adapters and LOMs, the largest year-over-year share gain of any vendor in the sector, closing the gap on the #1 supplier in the overall 10GbE market, according to Crehan Research.
• #1 in 10GbE LOM Revenue: Emulex is leading the 10GbE market in LOM revenue market share over the previous 1GbE market leaders. Its OneConnect™ Universal LOMs (ULOMs), which incorporate full hardware offload for Transmission Control Protocol, iSCSI and Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE), will continue to position Emulex for leadership in all 10GbE market segments.
• #1 in FCoE Revenue and Ports: Emulex also leads the market in overall FCoE revenue with 30 percent market share and 80 percent of the port shipments, according to Crehan Research.
• Gains Fibre Channel Market Share: In addition, Emulex gained over six percent in Fibre Channel revenue market share against its nearest competitor in the June quarter and four percent year-over-year, according to Dell'Oro Research and Crehan Research.

"Emulex gains in 10GbE market share are due to the ongoing ramp of Emulex OneConnect 10GbE Universal Converged Network Adapter and ULOM shipments at server and storage OEMs," said Shaun Walsh, vice president of marketing, Emulex. "Our success in the 10GbE market centers around our enterprise-class unified drivers and OEM integrated management tools, which allow us to participate in more data center evaluations and help drive network convergence adoption as well."

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About Emulex

Emulex, the leader in converged networking solutions, provides enterprise-class connectivity for servers, networks and storage devices within the data center. The Company's product portfolio of Fibre Channel host bus adapters, network interface cards, converged network adapters, controllers, embedded bridges and switches, and connectivity management software are proven, tested and trusted by the world's largest and most demanding IT environments. Emulex solutions are used and offered by the industry's leading server and storage OEMs including, Cisco, Dell, EMC, Fujitsu, Hitachi, Hitachi Data Systems, HP, Huawei, IBM, NEC, NetApp and Oracle. Emulex is headquartered in Costa Mesa, Calif., and has offices and research facilities in North America, Asia and Europe. More information about Emulex (NYSE:ELX) is available at www.Emulex.com.

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