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Solarflare announced today the expansion of its SFN5000 family of
10GbE server adapters with the launch of several new midrange 10GbE
adapters. The Solarflare SFC9000 controller LAN-on-motherboard (LOM),
announced in August 2009, enables the product's low-power,
hardware-assisted virtualization and aggressive cost performance
ratios.

The SFC9000 is the industry's lowest power controller and the
industry's first LOM with integrated 10GBASE-T. With its
hardware-assisted support for virtualization, the SFC9000 delivers up
to 5 times the application performance of other server adapters by
accelerating virtual I/O for Citrix XenServer, Microsoft Hyper V and
VMware. The SFC9000 also possesses the industry's most scalable
virtualization architecture, supporting up to 256 virtual functions
and up to 2048 virtual NICs, 16 times greater scalability than
conventional approaches.

The company's two new dual-port and single-port midrange 10GbE server
adapters complement the currently shipping enterprise 10GbE server
adapters, expanding Solarflare's footprint in the market, while
offering customers better performance at more aggressive cost and
performance points.

Midrange 10GbE server adapters

Solarflare's midrange dual-port and single-port 10GbE adapters deliver
high-performance, low latency, low power and scalable I/O
virtualization, offering exceptional value for data centers,
enterprise networks, virtualization and cloud applications, and high
performance compute (HPC) clusters: SFN5162F Dual-Port 10GbE SFP+
Server Adapter, SFN5161T Dual-Port 10GBASE-T Server Adapter, SFN5152F
Single-Port SFP+ Server Adapter, and the SFN5151T Single-Port
10GBASE-T Server Adapter.

"Our customers are very excited about our expanded 10GbE server
adapter portfolio," Russell Stern, CEO of Solarflare. "Our midrange
server adapters offer customers exceptional value. The power,
performance and cost advantages are all possible because we were the
first company with a 10GBASE-T LOM chip and have the lowest power PHY
and the lowest power controller. We have the right feature set to
enable high-frequency trading, high-performance computing for select
verticals, such as scientific computing, oil, gas and manufacturing,
as well as server virtualization for cloud networking."

Solarflare is the first and only company shipping both low-power, sub
5-watt 10GBASE-T transceivers and integrated, single monolithic
10GBASE-T LOM chips. Because Solarflare is the only company with the
lowest power 10GBASE-T LOM, it is able to bring to market the
lowest-power, single port 10GBASE-T adapter, at 7.9 watts, and the
lowest power dual port 10GBASE-T adapter, at 12.9 watts, versus
competing solutions at 20 watts or more. When a data center customer
deploys 1000s of servers, the power savings add up to a quarter of a
million kw/hours per year (2000 servers … 2 slots…7 watts…24 hours…365
days).

Solarflare 10GbE network adapters, often in combination with
Solarflare OpenOnload application acceleration middleware, enable
companies in a wide range of industries to build high-performance
compute (HPC) clusters and data centers that meet the most demanding
computing and networking challenges. These include financial services,
virtualized data centers, energy, oil and gas and academic computing
environments.

To date, Solarflare has shipped the SFN5122F 10GbE dual port SFP+
adapter to over 100 customers and 150 locations in China, Europe, US,
India, Hong Kong and Singapore. The SFN5122F, with its OpenOnload
application acceleration middleware, is also installed in every major
equities exchange worldwide.

Pricing and availability

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About SolarflareSolarflare Communications is the leading provider of
10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) chips and server adapters. Solarflare's
robust and power-efficient solutions are cost effective and easy to
deploy. Ready for primetime, Solarflare 10GbE products and OpenOnload
make possible next-generation applications such as low-latency
networking for market data applications, cloud computing, server
virtualization, and network convergence. Solarflare 10GbE adapters
have proven their performance in testing conducted by Securities
Technology Analysis Center (STAC) Research with Cisco switches and
Cisco and IBM servers. Solarflare chips can be found in switches,
adapters and test equipment shipping from Dell, SMC Networks and
others. The company has announced partnerships with Accton, Arista
Networks, Citrix, Cloudsoft, CommScope, Delta Networks, Panduit,
Solace Systems, SR Labs and VMware. Solarflare is headquartered in
Irvine, California, has an R&D site in Cambridge, UK and sales offices
in Taiwan and China.

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