ADVISORY/Emulex to Present At C.E. Unterberg, TowbinStorage Symposium.

News/Assignment Editors

ADVISORY...for Thursday (Oct. 26)

--(BUSINESS WIRE)

Emulex Corp.

WHAT:       Emulex Corp.'s President and CEO, Paul Folino, hosts a
            presentation for investors attending the C.E. Unterberg,
            Towbin Storage Symposium




				

				
				 
				


 this Thursday. During this
            presentation and subsequent discussions with investors,
            the company expects to reconfirm the financial and other
            information that it outlined in its quarterly financial
            results conference call on Oct. 19, 2000, an archive of
            which may be accessed via Emulex's Web site at
            www.emulex.com. In addition, Thursday's presentation may
            be accessed live on the Internet by visiting Emulex's Web
            site at www.emulex.com.

WHEN:       Thursday, Oct. 26, 2000, at 10:50 a.m. Eastern time

WHERE:      Live Webcast at www.emulex.com

CONTACT:    Investors contact -- Mike Rockenbach, CFO, 714/513-8213
            Press contact -- Robin Schnug, public relations manager,
            714/513-8152 or robin.schnug@emulex.com

About Emulex

Emulex Corp. (Nasdaq:EMLX) is a leading designer, developer and supplier of a broad line of Fibre Channel host adapters, hubs, ASICs and software products that provide connectivity solutions for Fibre Channel storage area networks (SAN), network attached storage (NAS) and RAID.

The company's products are based on internally developed ASIC technology and are deployable across a variety of SAN configurations, system buses and operating systems, enhancing data flow between computers and peripherals.

Emulex's products offer customers the unique combination of critical reliability, scalability and high performance, and can be customized for mission-critical server and storage system applications.

Emulex products have been selected by the world's leading server and storage providers, including Compaq, EMC, Fujitsu-Siemens, Groupe Bull, Hewlett-Packard, Hitachi Data Systems, IBM, NEC and Unisys. In addition, Emulex includes industry leaders Brocade, Intel, McDATA, Microsoft, Legato and Veritas among its strategic partners.

Emulex markets to OEMs and end users through its own worldwide selling organization, as well as two-tier distribution partners. Corporate headquarters are located in Costa Mesa, Calif. News releases and other information about Emulex Corp. are available via the Internet at http://www.emulex.com.

EMULEX -- the Fibre Channel company

"Safe Harbor" Statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995: With the exception of historical information, the statements set forth above include forward-looking statements that involve risk and uncertainties. The company wishes to caution readers that a number of important factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements. Those factors include the following: the fact that the company's markets are characterized by rapidly changing technology, evolving industry standards and frequent introductions of new products and enhancements, and the company's ability to respond to such changes; the fact that the fibre channel market is at an early stage of development; the highly competitive nature of the markets for the company's products; the company's ability to attract and retain skilled personnel; the company's reliance on third party suppliers for components used in the company's products and on manufacturing subcontractors that assemble and distribute the company's products; the company's reliance on certain OEMs, distributors and key customers; and potential fluctuations in the company's future effective tax rate. These and other factors which could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements are also discussed in the company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including its recent filings on Form 10-K and Form 10-Q.

Note to Editors: This news release refers to various products and companies by their trade names. In most, if not all, cases these designations are claimed as trademarks or registered trademarks by their respective companies.