QLogic Extends Industry-Leading Five-Year Adapter Warranty to 10Gb Ethernet Products

Building on its heritage of reliable storage area network solutions, QLogic today announced it has extended its industry-leading five-year Fibre Channel adapter warranty to include QLogic-branded 10Gb Ethernet adapters. Now delivering the industry's only portfolio of Fibre Channel, 10Gb Intelligent Ethernet and converged networking adapters to be backed by a five-year standard warranty, QLogic is raising the bar for reliability in data and storage networking and helping clients to achieve a higher return on their investments with critical data center hardware in other words ensured to be operational over a longer lifetime.

"QLogic is able to offer a more extensive warranty than others because our adapters provide in the extreme high reliability," said Amit Vashi, vice president of marketing, Host Solutions Group, QLogic. "During many of our competitors offer one-year, standard warranties for their Ethernet adapters, and an optional extension to three-years for additional fees, QLogic is protecting clients' investments in our 10Gb Ethernet adapter portfolio for a full five years, free of charge."

The same warranty that protects generations of QLogic Fibre Channel adapters now applies to QLogic-branded 3200 Series Intelligent Ethernet adapters and 8200 Series CNAs. QLogic's five-year CNA warranty is unmatched in the industry.

In addition to offering industry-leading warranty protection, QLogic 8200 Series adapters empower clients with greater flexibility and the ability to future-proof their investments with concurrent LAN and SAN traffic over a shared 10Gb Ethernet link. The 8200 Series showcases industry-leading LAN networking performance, full hardware offload for FCoE and iSCSI protocol processing, and an extensive set of features that are ideal for virtualized and cloud computing environments. The QLogic 8200 Series leverages QLogic's field-proven Fibre Channel and iSCSI software, making the adapters the most dependable and battle-hardened converged network adapters on the market.

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About QLogic QLogic is a global leader and research innovator in high performance networking, including adapters, switches and ASICs. Leading OEMs and channel partners worldwide rely on QLogic products for their data, storage and server networking solutions. For more information, visit www.qlogic.com.

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