(RTTNews) -  Wednesday, Emulex Corp. (ELX: News ) and BLADE Network Technologies, Inc. or BLADE, said they are delivering the essential networking components for IBM BladeCenter Virtual Fabric. BLADE's BNT Virtual Fabric 10G Switch Module combined with Emulex Virtual Fabric Adapter CFFh for IBM BladeCenter provide an end-to-end converged networking solution for IBM BladeCenter H and HS22 blade servers.

Virtual Fabric for IBM BladeCenter provides flexible Ethernet connectivity, virtual port switching and support for future converged networking with iSCSI or FCoE. Unlike the physical port switching employed by conventional switch fabrics, the Emulex-BLADE solution provides a virtual fabric for IBM BladeCenter supporting 1Gb/s or 10Gb/s that can be configured into up to 8 virtual ports with bandwidth allocation in 100Mb/s increments.

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