VMWORLD, LAS VEGAS (Booth #1119) – September 15, 2008 – Solarflare Communications, the leading provider of standards-compliant 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) silicon, will demonstrate its line-rate, low-power (2 watt) vNIC controller and its 100-meter reach, low-power (5 watt) PHY technology across VMware™ ESX server and iSCSI storage appliances in a 10GBASE-T network at VMworld. The company is showcasing these high-performance, power-efficient solutions in booth #1119, September 16-18, at The Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas.

Built to deliver optimal virtualization performance at 10 Gigabit per seconds, the demos feature Solarflare PHY and controller technology integrated into currently-shipping SMC Networks NIC and switch products. The demonstrations will simultaneously run VMware ESX VMotion, ESX iSCSI Initiator Traffic and ESX Application networking traffic with Netqueue over a copper 10GBASE-T Ethernet network.

"The benefit of utilizing 10GBASE-T running over an existing copper Ethernet cabling infrastructure and carrying multiple forms of traffic simultaneously is big in terms of cost savings," said Bruce Tolley, vice president of marketing at Solarflare. "Enterprises and data centers have seen an incredible uptake in the use of virtualization and storage convergence technologies. Solarflare’s 10GBASE-T PHY and 10GbE controller technology play an essential role in enabling customers to build converged LAN SAN networks with standards-compliant solutions that both maximize network performance and maintain power efficiency without requiring a network overhaul."

"SMC continues to break ground with its family of 10G networking solutions, giving particular attention to our 10GBASE-T products which utilize Solarflare’s 10G Ethernet PHYs," said Keith Alexis, vice president of sales for SMC Networks. "Central to our overall strategy, this product category includes the addition of SMC’s new 20+4-port 10GBASE-T Switch (SMC8724-10BT) to the existing 10GBASE-T NICs, and the upcoming 10GBASE-T uplink modules for our stackable 1G and 10G switches (SMC88xx-series). SMC will provide the only completely standards-based 10GBASE-T family of solutions capable of running the full 100 meters and we look forward to becoming the preferred vendor for companies deploying bandwidth-intensive applications requiring high-performance and reliability."

To view Solarflare’s demo during VMworld in Las Vegas, please contact Amy Robinson at 619-677-2700 or solarflare@lewispr.com.

About Solarflare® 10 Gigabit Products
Solarflare designs and develops the highest-performing, lowest-power, standards-compliant 10GbE controllers and 10GBASE-T transceivers on the market. Optimized for all key virtualization platforms including Citrix XenEnterprise, Microsoft’s Hyper-V and VMware’s ESX server, Solarflare’s Solarstorm® Ethernet controller consumes less than 2.2 watts at full line-rate performance delivering the optimal balance in performance and power efficiency. Solarflare's 10Xpress® 10GBASE-T PHY 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. When combined on a server adapter, Solarflare’s 10Xpress 10GBASE-T PHY and Solarstorm 10GbE controller deliver 10 times the performance of a 1 Gigabit NIC at half the power consumption of previous 10GbE server adapters. 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. Now real and ready for primetime, Solarflare 10 Gigabit Ethernet makes possible next-generation applications such as streaming rich media, Web 2.0, server virtualization and network convergence. Solarflare is working with key industry partners and customers to ensure interoperability and drive a complete 10GBASE-T ecosystem. 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, Ixia, Panduit, SMC and VMware.

About SMC Networks
SMC Networks is a leading provider of affordable, easy-to-use, high-performance networking solutions for the consumer, small- and medium-sized businesses, and enterprise markets. With a global presence that supports customers throughout the Americas, Europe, Africa, and Asia-Pacific, SMC leverages its heritage of over 35 years to deliver to market a level of quality, reliability and technological advancement that has established it as one of the premier network companies in the industry.

Since 2003, SMC has maintained a Green portfolio of networking products demonstrating its commitment to the environment at a very early stage. In 2008, Instat confirmed SMC's commitment to go beyond cursory attempts at power management when it stated that SMC was one of the top five most energy efficient in the 24/48 port managed switch category. SMC's Green Policy is a key component of the company's core strength that can be leveraged by its install base.

SMC Networks is headquartered in Irvine, Calif. For more information, visit the company’s Web site at www.smc.com or call (800) SMC-4YOU.

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Amy Robinson/Katie Eakins
LEWIS PR for Solarflare
619.677.2700
solarflare@lewispr.com