Emulex Corp. today announced its latest Fibre Channel host bus adapters (HBAs) with four 8Gbit/sec. ports on a single board, doubling the capacity for its LightPulse HBAs.

Emulex said its new LPe12004 quad-channel 8Gbit/sec. HBA is targeted at high-bandwidth, slot-limited servers, virtual tape libraries (VTLs), storage arrays and tape libraries. The new LightPulse HBAs also come in single- and dual-channel configurations.

The HBA is backward compatible with existing 4Gbit/sec. and 2Gbit/sec. Fibre Channel storage area networks (SANs) and is equipped with a service level interface, which enables driver compatibility across all generations of Emulex HBAs.

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