Solarflare to Demo with PANDUIT at Cisco Networkers Live 2009

IRVINE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Solarflare Communications, the leading provider of standards-compliant 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) silicon and VMware® Technology Alliance Partner, will showcase a highly-available virtualized data center network over 10GBASE-T with PANDUIT at the Cisco Networkers Live Conference in San Francisco, June 29-July 2 at booth #515.

The data center network on display is the first public demonstration of ESX NIC teaming and failover / fallback, which delivers the resiliency and redundancy virtual servers need to support mission-critical applications. If one switch-to-server link fails, the virtual server’s network connection is switched to the redundant backup link while maintaining, without error, the various traffic streams: iSCSI storage, Vmotion and video.

As server virtualization becomes more prevalent in data center environments, a high-speed data transport capability is ideal. With multiple virtual machines, server I/O is throttled in a 1 Gigabit network. By incorporating Solarflare’s Solarstorm® vNIC controllers and 10Xpress® 10GBASE-T transceivers, the PANDUIT® TX6A™ 10GIG™ Category 6A UTP Cabling System and a Cisco Catalyst® 6503 switch with the VMware™ ESX platform, virtual machines can achieve 10 Gigabit performance.

“Virtual machines in data centers need to deliver the same level of high availability as real physical hardware,” said Bruce Tolley, vice president of corporate marketing at Solarflare Communications. “Our high-performance 10 Gigabit Ethernet vNIC controller and 10GBASE-T PHY solutions not only make upgrading to 10Gbps speeds possible and cost-efficient, but also deliver features, such as high availability, that mission critical applications demand.”

About Solarflare® 10GbE Products

Solarflare designs and develops the industry’s highest-performing, lowest-power, standards-compliant 10GbE vNIC controllers and 10GBASE-T transceivers. Optimized for all key virtualization platforms including Citrix, Microsoft and VMware, Solarflare’s Solarstorm® Ethernet controller consumes less than 2 watts at full line-rate performance delivering the optimal balance in performance and power efficiency. At under 5 watts, Solarflare's 10Xpress® 10GBASE-T PHY with dynamic power scaling™ is the lowest power PHY in the industry and supports distances of greater than 100 meters on UTP Category 6A cabling, 100 meters on STP Category 6, 55 meters on UTP Category 6 and 45 meters on UTP Category 5E cabling. For additional product information and pricing, send a request to productinfo@solarflare.com.

About Solarflare

Solarflare Communications is a semiconductor company delivering the next level of high-performance 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE). As the leading provider of standards-compliant 10GbE silicon, Solarflare’s robust and power-efficient solutions are cost effective and easy to deploy. Ready for primetime, Solarflare 10 Gigabit Ethernet makes possible next-generation applications such cloud computing, server virtualization, network convergence and low latency UDP multicast (with Open Onload™) for market data applications. The privately held company is headquartered in Irvine, California, with a development center in Cambridge, UK, and has announced relationships with Accton, Citrix, Delta Networks Inc, Panduit, SMC Networks and VMware. For more information visit www.solarflare.com.

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