LAS VEGAS, USA: Emulex Corporation, a provider of converged networking solutions for data centre, announced that its single-chip OneConnect universal converged network adapters (UCNAs) had been selected by Cisco.

Emulex's OneConnect would be used for 10Gb/s fibre channel over Ethernet (FCoE) connectivity for Cisco Unified Computing B-Series blade server platform, Cisco unified computing C-Series rack mount server platform and Nexus family of unified fabric switches.

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Steve Daheb, chief marketing officer and senior vice president of business development, Emulex, said: "Emulex FCoE connectivity is enhancing the Cisco unified fabric and unified computing solutions by reducing network complexity, installation and maintenance costs, while optimizing performance by delivering full hardware offload protocol support for transmission control protocol/Internet protocol (TCP/IP) and FCoE. Emulex LightPulse fibre channel host bus adapters (HBAs) are also available for use with the Cisco unified computing C-Series rack servers."

A week ago, Emulex had also extended its OneConnect universal converged network adapter (UCNA) technology to HP ProLiant G7 server blades’ integrated HP NC551i dual port FlexFabric 10Gb adapter.

It will be also used in HP NC551m dual Port FlexFabric 10Gb adapter mezzanine card.