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| Emulex Relies on Intel Bridge to Offer Early-to-Market PCI Express Host Bus Adapters |
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| Who is Emulex? |
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| Emulex is a top-ranked developer and supplier of storage networking host bus adapters. The company sells its connectivity solutions to the world's leading server and storage providers. |
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| To extend its leadership position in the fast-growing storage networking arena, Emulex sought to deliver one of the industry's first Fibre Channel host bus adapters for the PCI Express serial I/O architecture. Emulex recognizes that companies can lower their costs by adopting PCI Express because it offers better reliability, availability and serviceability (RAS), higher performance, more scalability and easier implementation than the existing PCI and PCI-X parallel architecture. |
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| Emulex developers wanted to be ready with robust Fibre Channel PCI Express host bus adapters when OEMs begin shipping PCI Express-enabled servers in the third quarter of 2004. By doing so, Emulex aimed to accelerate the adoption of PCI Express at the server and at the same time provide customers with the immediate value of connecting their servers to Fibre Channel storage - in other words, enabling them to migrate to the new technology at low risk. |
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| Emulex selected the Intel® 41210 Serial to Parallel PCI Bridge to develop its next-generation connectivity solution, the LightPulse LP10000EX Fibre Channel host bus adapter. |
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| Several factors made the decision easy: Proven Intel technology, fast integration, assured interoperability with PCI Express server systems, and a solid history of development support. |
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| Emulex estimates that the Intel bridge allowed developers to shave a year off their typical product development cycle, enabling the company to be selling PCI Express host bus adapters in half or less the usual time-to-market. The bottom-line benefit: a significant reduction in the amount of resources required to start the flow of product revenue and the flow of value to customers. |
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