"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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Learn more about network convergence and Emulex's OneConnect UCNAs, please visit: http://www.emulex.com/solutions/convergence.html