# Emulex an Avago Technologies Company

> Emulex is an enterprise connectivity company acquired by Avago in 2015 and now represented by Broadcom’s Emulex adapter portfolio. Its Fibre Channel host bus adapters and management software connect servers to shared storage, support demanding database and virtualization workloads, and increasingly encrypt data in transit. Its historical Ethernet and Endace network-visibility businesses should be distinguished from its current Fibre Channel focus.

- **Founded:** 1978
- **Headquarters:** Costa Mesa, United States
- **Founders:** Fred B. Cox (Founder; former CEO and chairman)
- **Products:** LPe36002-M64 Fibre Channel HBA, LPe38102 SecureHBA, LPe37100/LPe38100 SecureHBA families, Emulex SAN Manager, OneConnect Ethernet and converged network adapters
- **Notable:** Built connectivity products into major server and storage OEM platforms., Avago announced an approximately US$606 million cash acquisition in February 2015; acquisition completed May 5, 2015., Emulex remains an active Broadcom Fibre Channel adapter brand.

## Products & services

- **LPe36002-M64 Fibre Channel HBA** — Dual-port 64G Fibre Channel host bus adapter for server-to-storage connectivity; supports Fibre Channel storage workloads including NVMe/FC.
- **LPe38102 SecureHBA** — Dual-port 64G PCIe 4.0 Fibre Channel adapter with hardware encryption of data in flight and post-quantum cryptography features.
- **LPe37100/LPe38100 SecureHBA families** — 32G and 64G Fibre Channel adapters with session-based key management and data-in-flight encryption.
- **Emulex SAN Manager** — Centralized in-band Fibre Channel HBA monitoring, management and congestion-management software.
- **OneConnect Ethernet and converged network adapters** — Historical Ethernet, iSCSI and FCoE connectivity portfolio; legacy OCe14000 FCoE adapters are end-of-life and unsupported in ESXi 8.0.
- **Endace network visibility products** — Historical packet-capture, network recording and analytics business acquired in 2013 and divested in October 2015; management buyout announced March 2016.

## Achievements

- Built connectivity products into major server and storage OEM platforms.
- Avago announced an approximately US$606 million cash acquisition in February 2015; acquisition completed May 5, 2015.
- Emulex remains an active Broadcom Fibre Channel adapter brand.
- Broadcom reported more than 120,000 Emulex SecureHBAs shipped on OEM server platforms in the year preceding March 19, 2026.

## Latest updates

- **2026-03** — Broadcom announced end-to-end PQC-safe in-flight Fibre Channel encryption with Emulex SecureHBAs embedded in Everpure FlashArray storage.
- **2026-03** — Emulex SAN Manager product brief updated March 10, 2026; SecureHBA family product brief updated March 17, 2026.
- **2026-04** — Broadcom support clarified that legacy Emulex OneConnect OCe14000 FCoE adapters are unsupported in ESXi 8.0.
- **2026-06** — SAN Manager product resources listed updated FC/NVMe drivers for Ubuntu and ESXi dated June 30, 2026.

## Links

- Website: https://www.broadcom.com/products/storage/fibre-channel-host-bus-adapters
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/emulex
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/Emulex
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/emulexcorp

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Last updated: 2026-09-30