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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, CA - April 07, 2009

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.

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.

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“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.”

“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, Ixia, Panduit, SMC Networks and VMware.

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