Emulex Corporation (NYSE:ELX) today announced that Emulex OneConnect? Universal Converged Network Adapters (UCNAs) have been named the Best in Networking Solutions for the 2010 Network Products Guide Best Products and Services Reader Trust Awards. This annual award honors products and services that represent the rapidly changing needs and interests of end users worldwide.

?It's an honor to receive this award from the Network Products Guide readers. It is a testament to the widespread end user awareness and acceptance of our OneConnect UCNAs and to their superior functionality and performance,? said Steve Daheb, chief marketing officer and senior vice president of business development, Emulex. ?It's truly an exciting time for us as a company, witnessing and helping drive the market evolution towards network convergence in the data center.?

Emulex's single-chip, high-performance OneConnect UCNA is the only server adapter with full hardware protocol offload support for Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP), iSCSI and FCoE; the world's fastest 10Gb/s Ethernet performance, according to IT Brand Pulse; and enables the ability to efficiently consolidate network and storage infrastructures without changing management domains.

?Increased end-user awareness and ongoing advances in technology are helping shape better products and services,? says Rake Narang, editor-in-chief, Network Products Guide. ?Emulex OneConnect UCNAs enable organizations to converge their networking and storage traffic across one pipe, while reducing power and cooling necessities in the data center – a universal requirement today. These awards go to the best technology products every year and we are honored that Emulex has gained the Network Products Guide Reader Trust.?

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About Emulex

Emulex is the leader in converged networking solutions for the data center. Our Connectivity Continuum architecture provides intelligent networking services that transition today's infrastructure into tomorrow's unified network ecosystem. Emulex provides a single framework that intelligently connects every server, network and storage device within the data center. Through strategic collaboration and integrated partner solutions, Emulex provides its customers with industry leading business value, operational flexibility and strategic advantage. Emulex is listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE:ELX) and has corporate headquarters in Costa Mesa, California. News releases and other information about Emulex Corporation are available at http://www.emulex.com.

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Emulex
Katherine Lane, 714-885-3828
Director, Corporate Communications
katherine.lane@emulex.com