Bell Microproducts now Distributes Chelsio in Europe

Expanding Partnership Of 10G Ethernet Products For Enterprise Data Centers: Bell Microproducts and Chelsio Communications today announced an agreement that enables Bell Microproducts to distribute Chelsio's 10-Gigabit Ethernet and multi-port Gigabit Ethernet adapters throughout Europe. This agreement is an expansion of the existing distribution agreement announced between the two companies in early 2007. The Chelsio adapters feature unique protocol acceleration technology that enables Bell Microproducts' resellers to offer their customers solutions that deliver an enhanced level of performance and cost-savings for the next generation enterprise data centers. "Bell Microproducts has been an outstanding distribution partner for Chelsio and is a logical partner for our market expansion throughout Europe," said Kianoosh Naghshineh, president and CEO of Chelsio. "Our adapters are gaining widespread acceptance for high performance servers and storage systems, and Bell Microproducts has been an important part of that success. We expect to have great success in the European market." "Chelsio has been an excellent technology partner in the US and we see a great opportunity to take their world class 10Gb Ethernet adapters to the European markets," said Tom Ellis, Business Unit Manager for Storage Solutions at Bell Microproducts. "Chelsio's adapters address the industry demand for greater convergence of networking, clustering, virtualization and IP storage connectivity while dramatically increasing application performance and bandwidth. Chelsio's product line will be a fast growing addition for Bell Micro's storage fabric portfolio." Chelsio is the technology leader in 10-Gigabit Ethernet storage networking and offers the broadest portfolio of high performance connectivity solutions in the industry. Chelsio's third generation adapters are available today through Bell Microproducts distribution network.