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ALISO VIEJO, Calif., June 16, 2003 -- QLogic Corp. (NASDAQ:QLGC),
the company that powers storage networks, today announced that its line of SANbox2
Fibre Channel switches, including the recently announced SANbox2 64 product, and
SANblade Fibre Channel host bus adapters (HBAs) have been qualified with several
storage networking products from Cisco Systems, Inc.
Specifically, Cisco and QLogic have jointly qualified the QLogic
Fibre Channel devices with the Cisco MDS 9000 Family of Multilayer Directors and
Fabric Switches, targeted at enterprise-class storage networking deployments,
as well as the Cisco SN5428-2 Storage Router, ideal for workgroups and corporate
departments. These joint qualifications offer customers choice in choosing SAN
switches and HBAs from both Cisco and QLogic, when connecting their storage devices
and servers together across SANs. The testing was based on a specified set of
interoperability criteria between designated product models of the two companies.
"As the market for SANs matures with greater vendor options,
including a wider variety of fabric edge switches, customers are increasingly
interested in switch interoperability with core director class products,"
said Bill Erdman, marketing director of storage technology alliances at Cisco.
"The interoperability tests we conducted with QLogic, including the switch-to-switch
tests within the Storage Network Industry Association (SNIA) lab, as well as within
our qualification lab confirm that customers can deploy different vendor switches
together without sacrificing any significant functionality."
"As the market for SANs matures with greater vendor options,
including a wider variety of fabric edge switches, customers are increasingly
interested in switch interoperability with core director class products,"
said Bill Erdman, marketing director of storage technology alliances at Cisco.
"The interoperability tests we conducted with QLogic, including the switch-to-switch
tests within the Storage Network Industry Association (SNIA) lab, as well as within
our qualification lab confirm that customers can deploy different vendor switches
together without sacrificing any significant functionality."
The Cisco MDS 9000 Family delivers a number of storage networking
innovations to customers including multi-layer intelligence such as multi-protocol
(iSCSI, Fibre Channel, and Fibre Channel over IP) support, intelligent network
services, multi-application partitioning, intelligent storage services, and unified
management. These services are essential to increase SAN scalability and to allow
customers to realize the significant financial and operational benefits of delivering
storage as a utility.
The two companies are working together through continued support for open,
industry standards such as FC-SW-2, FC-GS-3 and SNMP, designed to give customers
greater choices in solving their storage issues.
SANblade Fibre Channel HBAs
Both QLogic 2Gb Fibre Channel switches and HBAs have won "Editor's Choice"
and "Well Connected" awards from Network Computing magazine. QLogic
2Gb HBAs offer an extensive checklist of features and benefits that is unmatched
in the industry including performance of up to 80,000 Input/Output operations
per second (IOPs) and native support for Sun Solaris, Microsoft® Windows NT®
and Windows 2000, Novell® NetWare, Red Hat® Linux® and SuSE Linux.
SANbox2 Fibre Channel Switches
QLogic SANbox2 2Gb Fibre Channel network switches provide investment protection
for current and future SAN infrastructures, establishing new standards of performance,
reliability and simplicity. Available in 8-port and 16-port, slim form factors,
QLogic SANbox2 switches are among the fastest, most scalable, and easiest to manage
Fibre Channel switches on the market.
The QLogic SANbox2-64 Modular Fabric Switch
The SANbox2-64 is a new class of Edge switch that makes deploying and scaling
a SAN much easier and more cost-effective. Its dense, bladed architecture allows
SAN architects to easily scale from 16 ports to 64 ports in just 4U (7")
of rack space. In addition, the SANbox2-64 modular fabric switch offers redundancy
and hot-swap capabilities typically found only in much more expensive Director
switches.
Powered by QLogic
Over 40 million QLogic products have shipped inside servers, workstations, RAID
subsystems, tape libraries, disk and tape drives, delivered to small, medium and
large enterprises around the world. Powering solutions from leading companies
like Cisco, Dell, EMC, Fujitsu, Hitachi, HP, IBM, Network Appliance, Quantum,
Sony, StorageTek and Sun, the broad line of QLogic controller chips, host bus
adapters, network switches and management software move data from storage devices
through the network fabric to servers. A member of the S&P 500 and NASDAQ
100, QLogic was recently named to Forbes' Best 200 Small Companies for the fourth
consecutive year and was named to Fortune's 100 Fastest Growing Companies list
for the third consecutive year. For more information visit www.qlogic.com.
Note: All QLogic-issued press releases appear on the company's web site (www.qlogic.com).
Any announcement that does not appear on the QLogic web site has not been issued
by QLogic.
Disclaimer- Forward Looking Statements
With the exception of historical information, the statements set forth above include
forward-looking statements as defined within the Private Securities Litigation
Reform Act of 1995. Such forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties
that could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected or implied
in the forward-looking statements. QLogic wishes to advise readers that these
potential risks and uncertainties relate to, but are not limited to, in no particular
order: the introduction of new and changing technologies in our industry and customer
acceptance of those technologies; a change in semiconductor foundry capacity or
conditions; fluctuations in the growth of I/O markets; fluctuations or cancellations
in orders from OEM customers; QLogic's ability to compete effectively with other
companies; cancellation of OEM products associated with design wins; and fluctuations
in our operating results and our stock price.
More detailed information on these and additional factors which
could affect QLogic's operating and financial results are described in QLogic's
Forms 10-Q, 10-K and other reports, filed or to be filed with the Securities and
Exchange Commission. QLogic urges all interested parties to read these reports
to gain a better understanding of the many business and other risks that QLogic
faces. Additionally, QLogic undertakes no obligation to publicly release the results
of any revisions to these forward-looking statements, which may be made to reflect
events or circumstances occurring after the date hereof or to reflect the occurrence
of unanticipated events.
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