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VTSS News Vitesse SAS Shipments Exceed 250,000 Ports Per Week

CAMARILLO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Vitesse Semiconductor Corporation (Pink Sheets:VTSS), a leader in Serial Attached SCSI technology, today announced a milestone in the deployment of its NexSAS™ portfolio of SAS products – shipping over 250,000 ports per week. Vitesse’s end-to-end SAS solution is now poised to begin its ramp into the small and medium business and enterprise storage markets.

“Over the last three years, Vitesse has invested heavily in SAS technology,” said Tim Hornback, vice president and general manager, Storage Products Division, Vitesse. “Both our commitment to SAS as a storage technology and our innovative, feature/performance approach to products have positioned us as a vendor of choice at nine of the top 10 enterprise server and storage enclosure OEMs.”

Vitesse’s NexSAS family of end-to-end SAS solutions is based on a common software and hardware architecture, allowing OEMs to easily scale designs across port densities, functional requirements, and applications while leveraging existing software and firmware. This architectural flexibility provides OEMs with accelerated time-to-market and maximized time-in-market through reuse of designs and firmware/software. Targeted at both enterprise server and storage enclosure applications, Vitesse delivers all of the features needed to build enterprise storage solutions that leverage both SAS and Serial ATA (SATA) technology today.

The NexSAS family includes the industry’s most diverse offering of high- and low-port count expanders, high performance RAID-on-Chip (ROC) controllers, active-active and active-passive mux devices, discrete enclosure management controllers, and advanced signal integrity solutions.

About the Storage Products Division

For over two decades, the Storage Products Division at Vitesse has delivered state-of-the-art IC solutions for enterprise storage and storage networking applications. With emphasis on the development of advanced disk array intelligence, high-performance interconnect, and enclosure management devices for Fibre Channel, Serial Attached SCSI (SAS), and Serial ATA (SATA), the Vitesse portfolio is the most robust market offering for enterprise applications. As the world leader in enterprise storage ICs, Vitesse components are used in a wide array of products from industry-leading OEMs, including: Brocade; Dell Computer; EMC; Emulex; HP; Hitachi, Ltd.; IBM; Intel; LSI Logic Storage; Sun Microsystems; and others.

About Vitesse

Vitesse designs, develops, and markets a diverse portfolio of high-performance, cost-competitive semiconductor solutions for communications and storage networks worldwide. Engineering excellence and dedicated customer service distinguish Vitesse as an industry leader in Gigabit Ethernet LAN, Ethernet-over-SONET, Fibre Channel, Serial Attached SCSI, Optical Transport, and other applications. Vitesse innovation empowers customers to deliver superior products for Enterprise, Access, Metro, and Core applications. Additional company and product information is available at www.vitesse.com.

Vitesse is a registered trademark and NexSAS is a trademark in the United States and/or other jurisdictions of Vitesse Semiconductor Corporation. All other trademarks or registered trademarks mentioned herein are the property of their respective holders.

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More information about the Vitesse NexSAS™ portfolio is available at www.vitesse.com/sas

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