IRVINE, Calif. – March 30, 2010 – Solarflare Communications, the pioneer in 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE), announced today the general availability of the newest additions to its family of branded 10GbE products. This includes the Solarstorm® SFN5122F 10GbE dual-port server adapter and Enterprise OpenOnload™, providing the industry’s lowest-power and lowest-latency 10 Gigabit Ethernet solution. The SFN5122F is now available directly to customers worldwide to address growing market demands, especially for virtualization, cloud computing and high-performance computing in financial services. Enterprise OpenOnload is an application acceleration product ideal for high-performance computing in financial services and other vertical markets that require low-latency and high message rate application acceleration.

Multiple high-density 10GbE data center switches are now available from such vendors as Arista, BNT, Brocade, Cisco and Force10. The broad availability of line-rate, non-blocking 10GbE data center switches drives the need for high-performance, dual-port 10GbE server adapters. According to a February 2010 report from Dell'Oro, the 10GbE server adapter market will grow to $775 million by 2013. Furthermore, with the launch of new server platforms from Intel and AMD, IT and data center managers have a wide range of cost effective six and eight core processors for dual- and four-socket servers. To fully utilize the increased processing power delivered by multi-core CPUs, enterprises and data centers require native 10GbE network connections.

Solarflare's SFN5122F delivers 40Gb/s aggregate bandwidth, driving unmatched message rate processing and accelerated performance of a wide range of applications, including financial services, multimedia content streaming and other high performance computing needs, such as oil and gas exploration. Solarflare currently delivers the highest-performance, lowest-power 10GbE server adapters on the market.

"We are excited to offer a broad portfolio of Solarflare-branded products directly to global customers to meet emerging market and network demands," said Mike Smith, vice president of product marketing. "Our solutions allow enterprises and data centers to best utilize the next-generation infrastructure and optimize the adoption of virtualization and cloud computing."

Featuring hypervisor bypass and SR-IOV, the SFN5122F alleviates network I/O bottlenecks and allows IT managers to allocate server I/O network resources directly to applications. Solarflare's scalable, hardware-assisted virtualized architecture supports thousands of vNICs for accelerated application networking. When combined with Enterprise OpenOnload, the SFN5122F can deliver sub-5 microsecond UDP/TCP application latencies, while supporting message rates in the millions. It also significantly reduces latency jitter, making it ideal for high-frequency trading.

Solarflare's Solarstorm SFN5122F dual-port 10GbE server adapter features numerous market-leading capabilities, including:

Support for a rich set of stateless offloads including: iSCSI, RSS, TCP/IP and UDP, LSO/TSO and LRO
Lowest power at 5 watts, consuming less than half the power of leading competitors' products
Energy Star™ requirements of less than 8 watts per port power consumption
Driver support for popular operating systems environments, including Microsoft Windows®, Red Hat® and RHEL™ Linux, Solaris™, VMware®, Citrix® XenServer™ and Novell SLES

Enterprise OpenOnload supports:

Standard networking protocols including TCP, UDP, IP and Ethernet
Existing binaries and APIs, including standard BSD sockets
Installed Ethernet and standard switches and cabling

The SFN5122F is available in April 2010 for $1,100. Enterprise OpenOnload is also available upon request and enhanced support is available with annual contracts. For more information on pricing and availability of Solarflare products, contact productinfo@solarflare.com.

About Solarflare Communications, Inc.
Solarflare Communications is the leading provider of 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) silicon and server adapters. Solarflare's robust and power-efficient solutions are cost effective and easy to deploy. Ready for primetime, Solarflare 10GbE products make possible next-generation applications such as low-latency networking (with OpenOnload™) 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 IBM servers. Solarflare silicon 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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