The vendor is also ramping up its 8-Gbit/s Fibre Channel HBAs, according to Mike Smith, Emulexs executive vice president of worldwide marketing. Our products are available now -- we have got 22 OEM design wins and we have got more in the pipeline, he said.
Despite a recent flurry of activity from vendors such as Cisco, Qlogic, and NetApp around FCOE and 8-Gbit/s Fibre Channel, Smith admits that both technologies are in their relative infancies.
Were in the very early stages of the 8-Gig roll-out [and] were in the very early stages of FCOE, he said. Looking ahead, we expect to see FCOE becoming much more prevalent towards the end of next year and 2010.
EMC qualified Emulexs 8-Gbit/s HBA earlier this month, along with that of rival QLogic, indicating growing momentum behind that technology. Smith expects to see the first shoots of 16-Gbit/s Fibre Channel appear in 2010, and 40-Gbit/s emerge in 2010 and 2011.
Emulex, which saw its revenues drop 2 percent sequentially in its most recent financial results, also discussed the challenges of the current economic climate today.