Solarflare Expands Executive Team by Appointing Mike Smith as Vice President of Product Marketing

Former Emulex executive brings 20 years of experience in storage and
virtualization to leading 10 Gigabit Ethernet silicon company
IRVINE, Calif.--(Business Wire)--
Solarflare Communications, the leader in standards-based 10 Gigabit Ethernet
(10GbE) silicon, has expanded its executive team by hiring Mike Smith as vice
president of product marketing, responsible for product management and product
marketing. With his background in storage networking and controllers, Mike will
play an important role as original equipment manufacturers (OEMS) bring to
market 10GbE switch and server products based on Solarflare`s 10GbE silicon.

"We are delighted to welcome Mike to the Solarflare team," said Russell Stern,
chief executive officer of Solarflare. "Mike has deep relationships with many
OEMs, including EMC, HP, IBM and Sun. As our product line matures this year for
OEM readiness, Mike`s skills and connections will be a great addition to drive
design wins and revenue."

Previously, Mike was executive vice president of worldwide marketing at Emulex,
a leader in the storage networking market. At Emulex, he played a key role in
driving product strategy and engagements and was instrumental in securing design
wins with major OEMs. Prior to joining Emulex, Mike held various marketing
management roles at Adaptec and spent 10 years at Western Digital. He holds a
master`s in business administration from University of California, Irvine and a
bachelor`s degree from the New Jersey Institute of Technology.

"What attracted me to Solarflare is the strength of its team, technology
portfolio and its 10GbE leadership position," said Mike Smith. "Cloud computing,
server virtualization, LAN/SAN network convergence and low latency UDP multicast
for market data applications all drive the need for 10GbE Ethernet. Solarflare
has the silicon portfolio that delivers the performance, low power and low cost
needed to enable broad 10GbE Ethernet adoption."

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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 performance delivering the optimal balance in performance and power
efficiency. At 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

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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