IRVINE, Calif. – July 24, 2009 – Solarflare Communications, the leader in standards-based 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) silicon, today appointed Danny Shamlou as senior vice president of engineering. A key addition to the company’s executive team, Shamlou will be responsible for all engineering functions.

“I’m looking forward to this exciting new challenge at Solarflare,” remarked Shamlou. “Solarflare has an outstanding development team, a unique product portfolio and solid financial investors. Supported by the $32 million raised in December, we’re about to ship our next-generation 10GbE vNIC controller and 10GBASE-T transceiver products to Tier 1 customers.”

With Shamlou’s appointment, Solarflare strengthens its position as the leading provider of high-performance, low-power 10GbE silicon for switch and server solutions for next-generation networks. He has over 15 years of executive-level engineering management experience.

“I am pleased to announce Danny’s appointment as senior vice president of engineering,” said Russell Stern, CEO of Solarflare. “His leadership skills, technical expertise and domain knowledge in our customer space are invaluable. Danny’s customer-focused, collaborative and data-driven approach is a perfect match for the Solarflare team.”

Prior to Solarflare, Shamlou held several high-level management positions, including general manager and engineering vice president at Mindspeed and Conexant. His responsibilities included timely execution and production release of several mixed signal systems-on-chip (SoC) products. Recently, Shamlou worked for Starport Systems as vice president of engineering, where he led the development of ultra high-frequency radio frequency identification SoC devices and a 65 nanometer XFI SERDES IP core. He has a bachelor’s degree from the University of Tennessee and a master’s degree from Georgia Institute of Technology.

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 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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