IRVINE, Calif. – July 17, 2009 – Solarflare Communications, the leader in standards-based 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) silicon, today announced it has been selected as an AlwaysOn Global 250 Winner for 2009. The AlwaysOn Global 250 Award is given to private, emerging technology companies creating new business opportunities in high-growth markets. The AlwaysOn editorial team chose Solarflare due to the company’s market opportunity, demonstration of growth and quality of innovation.

Solarflare and the other AlwaysOn Global 250 Winners will be recognized at the AlwaysOn and Stanford Technology Ventures Program (STVP) Summit, taking place at Stanford University in Palo Alto, CA, July 28-30. This two-and-a-half day executive conference is co-presented by the STVP and will highlight significant trends affecting the global technology industries.

“It’s no secret that technology and innovation are vital to bringing our country out of economic recession,” said Tony Perkins, founder and editor of AlwaysOn. “The companies on this year’s list have not only created innovative technologies that solve real business problems, but have stimulated economic growth through the generation of new jobs. I congratulate every winner selected for this year’s award and wish them all tremendous success in the future.”

The AlwaysOn Global 250 Winners were selected from hundreds of technology companies nominated by investors, bankers, journalists and industry insiders. The AlwaysOn editorial team conducted a rigorous three-month selection process to finalize the 2009 list.

“We are extremely proud to be selected as an AlwaysOn Global 250 Winner,” said Russell Stern, CEO of Solarflare. “As virtualization and cloud computing continue to be in high-demand by enterprises, our 10GBASE-T transceiver and 10GbE vNIC controller products are essential for building server and switch solutions that provide an easy and cost-effective network upgrade to 10 Gbps speeds. The award recognizes Solarflare’s performance and innovation in bringing to market standards-based 10 Gigabit Ethernet products for data center solutions worldwide.”

A full list of all the AlwaysOn Global 250 winners can be found on the AlwaysOn Web site at http://alwayson.goingon.com/permalink/post/32719.

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 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 AlwaysOn
ALWAYSON ignited the open-media revolution in early 2003 by being the first media brand to launch a global blog network. In 2004, ALWAYSON continued to lead the media industry in innovation by introducing a social network where members can connect and engage. ALWAYSON is also revolutionizing the media business by applying its open-media principles to its executive event series (Summit at Stanford, OnMedia, OnHollywood, OnDC, GoingGreen East and West, Venture Summit East and West) and quarterly print “blogozine” by empowering its members to post and share their ideas and meet each other online. As our loyal readers know, ALWAYSON is committed to the free-market, merit-driven approach to reporting and event programming. No other media brand has dared to create such open interaction with its readers and event participants.

About Solarflare Communications, Inc.
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, CommScope, Delta Networks Inc., Panduit, SMC Networks and VMware.

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