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COSTA MESA, CA -- Emulex Corp. (Nasdaq:EMLX), a leading supplier of storage networking host bus adapters (HBAs), today announced that LSI Logic Storage Systems has certified the Emulex LightPulse LP9002L 2Gb/s Fibre Channel HBA for use with its MetaStor(R) E4600 2Gb/s storage systems. LSI Logic's MetaStor E4600, capable of scaling to capacities of 39TB, combined with Emulex's high performance Fibre Channel HBAs, provides customers with a reliable and robust 2Gb/s storage solution. The Emulex 2Gb/s LP9002L low profile HBA offers a hardware-independent driver architecture, which provides driver compatibility across all product generations enabling customers to seamlessly upgrade products and migrate to 2Gb/s storage area networks. "LSI Logic Storage Systems and Emulex are committed to delivering industry-leading 2Gb/s storage networking solutions, and certification of the Emulex Fibre Channel HBAs mean customers receive a highly robust, interoperable connectivity solution when utilizing LSI Logic's enterprise-class storage systems," said Flavio Santoni, vice president of sales and marketing for LSI Logic Storage Systems Inc. "The MetaStor E4600 offers customers leading performance for both database-intensive and high throughput environments, while the large installed base of Emulex HBAs ensures the reliability and performance that our enterprise customers demand." The Emulex LP9002L HBA operates at up to 2Gb/s Fibre Channel data rates, and offers auto speed negotiation, a function that enables the HBA to automatically sense the network's maximum speed, while maintaining full backwards compatibility with 1Gb/s Fibre Channel installations. Emulex also offers driver compatibility across its entire family of LightPulse HBAs, including both the 2Gb/s LP9002L and the market-leading 1Gb/s LP8000 dramatically simplifying SAN management complexities. The firmware-based architecture of the Emulex HBAs enables field upgrade-ability, which provides investment protection and ensures a lower total cost of ownership. "Certification of the Emulex HBAs ensures compatibility with the largest installed base of Fibre Channel host bus adapters in the industry, and we are pleased LSI Logic has successfully completed certification across our latest 2Gb/s HBA," said Mike Smith, executive vice president of worldwide marketing at Emulex. "Emulex will continue to work closely with LSI Logic to ensure the deployment of both current and future high performance storage networking solutions." For more information visit www.emulex.com