Press Releases

2003

December 17, 2003

FORCE10 NETWORKS NAMES HOWARD LEE COUNTRY MANAGER OF KOREA

Force10 Networks today announced that it has named Howard Lee country manager of Korea. Lee, a networking industry veteran with more than 17 years experience, will direct Force10’s Korea operations and business strategies. Read more >

 

December 9, 2003

FORCE10 DELIVERS FASTER PERFORMANCE TO THE FRIENDSTER NETWORK

Force10 Networks today announced that Friendster, an online community that connects people through shared friends, has deployed Force10’s E-Series switch/routers to speed the process through which Friendster creates networked communities of mutual friends. Read more >

 

December 2, 2003

TWO LEADING CHINESE UNIVERSITIES DEPLOY FORCE10 NETWORKS E-SERIES IN 10 GIGABIT ETHERNET CAMPUS NETWORKS

Force10 Networks today announced that two of China’s leading universities have deployed the E-Series to build highly resilient and predictable 10 Gigabit Ethernet campus networks. Leveraging the resiliency and scalability of the Force10 E-Series, Tsinghua and Shenzhen universities are building advanced networking environments that can deliver new services and applications to students and researchers. Read more >

 

November 17, 2003

FORCE10 NETWORKS DEMONSTRATES THE RESILIENCY AND PREDICTABLE PERFORMANCE OF THE E-SERIES AT SUPERCOMPUTING 2003

Force10 Networks today unveiled the E300, the industry’s first compact Gigabit and 10 Gigabit Ethernet platform, at the Supercomputing 2003 (SC2003) conference in Phoenix, Ariz. During the conference, Force10 will demonstrate its complete E-Series family, highlighting the resiliency of the E1200, E600 and E300 in a variety of simulated network situations. The Force10 E-Series will also be deployed in the show’s network and will play a crucial role in several of the SC2003 Bandwidth Challenges. Read more >

 

November 17, 2003

FORCE10 NETWORKS INTRODUCES THE INDUSTRY’S FIRST LINE-RATE SMALL FORM FACTOR GIGABIT AND 10 GIGABIT ETHERNET SWITCH/ROUTER

Force10 Networks, Inc., the pioneer in resilient switching and routing, today redefined Gigabit and 10 Gigabit Ethernet networking with the introduction of the E300. As the industry’s smallest and most cost-effective platform, the E300 reduces the entry cost of 10 Gigabit Ethernet technology, bringing line-rate performance and unmatched resiliency to small and mid-size data centers and server farms. With the addition of the E300, Force10 is the first to offer a family of line-rate 10 Gigabit Ethernet solutions designed to deliver superior price performance for a range of advanced networking environments. Read more >

 

November 10, 2003

HANARO TELECOM DEPLOYS FORCE10 NETWORKS E-SERIES FOR MAJOR NETWORK EXPANSION

Force10 Networks, Inc., a pioneer in resilient switching and routing, today announced that South Korea-based Hanaro Telecom Inc. (Nasdaq: HANA) selected CommVerge Solutions to deploy Force10’s E-Series switch/routers for 10 Gigabit Ethernet routing and Gigabit Ethernet aggregation services. Hanaro Telecom’s network expansion, including increasing high-capacity connectivity for a wide range of broadband services, required the resiliency, fault-tolerance and robust 10 Gigabit routing that Force10’s E-Series is uniquely designed to provide. Read more >

 

November 3, 2003

FORCE10 NETWORKS TO OUTLINE EVOLUTION OF THE NEW DATA CENTER AT NEXT GENERATION NETWORKS CONFERENCE

Force10 Networks, Inc., a pioneer in resilient switching and routing, today announced that it will highlight the future of Gigabit and 10 Gigabit Ethernet technology at the Next Generation Networks (NGN) conference, Nov. 3-7, 2003, at the Marriott Copley Place in Boston. Read more >

 

October 27, 2003

FORCE10 NETWORKS AND IBM SIGN MULTI-TIERED WORLDWIDE PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENT

Force10 Networks, Inc. announced today that IBM and Force10 have signed a worldwide partnership agreement whereby IBM will resell the E-Series E1200/600 high density Gigabit and 10 Gigabit Ethernet product family. In addition, IBM Global Services will provide end-to-end support for the E-Series switch/routers – including consulting, implementation, and technical assistance center (TAC) support – for enterprise customers worldwide. Read more >

 

October 27, 2003

NATIONAL CENTER FOR SUPERCOMPUTING APPLICATIONS CHOOSES FORCE10 NETWORKS FOR TERAGRID DEPLOYMENT PHASE II

Force10 Networks, Inc., announced today that the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois has selected Force10 Networks E-Series E1200 high density Gigabit and 10 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) switch/routers for Phase II of NCSA's portion of the TeraGrid project. Read more >

 

October 22, 2003

FORCE10 NETWORKS NAMES BAHMAN SOHRABI AS VICE PRESIDENT OF GLOBAL SERVICES

Force10 Networks, a pioneer in high availability switching and routing, announced today that Bahman Sohrabi has been named as vice president of global services. Sohrabi, an industry veteran with more than 17 years of experience in customer support and service, will be responsible for all aspects of Force10’s global services organization. Read more >

 

October 20, 2003

FORCE10 NETWORKS TO SHOWCASE E-SERIES SWITCH/ROUTERS AT GARTNER ITXPO

Force10 Networks, Inc., a pioneer in resilient switching and routing, today announced that it is exhibiting and speaking at Gartner’s Symposium ITxpo, Oct. 19-24, 2003, at the Walt Disney World Dolphin Hotel in Orlando, FL. Force10 will feature its E-Series, a new generation of highly resilient and scalable switch/routers, in the Business Intelligence/Data Warehousing marketplace theater, booth 327. Read more >

 

October 15, 2003

FORCE10 NETWORKS PERFORMANCE IN WORLD’S FIRST TRANSCONTINENTAL 10 GIGABIT ETHERNET NETWORK VERIFIED BY IXIA

Force10 Networks, Inc., a pioneer in resilient switching and routing, today announced that the performance of the Force10 E-Series switch/routers deployed in a groundbreaking transcontinental 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10 GE) network has been verified as line-rate 10 GE throughput by Ixia (Nasdaq: XXIA), a leading provider of high-speed, network performance and conformance analysis systems. Read more >

 

October 13, 2003

FORCE10 NETWORKS ENABLES WORLD’S FIRST TRANSCONTINENTAL 10 GIGABIT ETHERNET WIDE AREA NETWORK TRANSMISSION

Force10 Networks, Inc., a pioneer in resilient switching and routing, today announced that the E-Series switch/router is providing the wide area network physical layer (WAN PHY) foundation for a series of groundbreaking demonstrations validating 10 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) transmissions over a world-spanning Synchronous Optical Network (SONET) OC-192 network between Geneva, Amsterdam, and Ottawa. Read more >

 

September 10, 2003

BROADBAND TOWER IN JAPAN DEPLOYS FORCE10 NETWORKS E-SERIES SWITCH/ROUTERS

Tokyo’s First Internet Data Center to Deploy and Offer Customers True Line-Rate 10 Gigabit Ethernet Based Services and Connectivity. Read more >

 

July 15, 2003

ARGONNE NATIONAL LAB DEPLOYS FORCE10 NETWORKS MASSIVELY DENSE ETHERNET SWITCH FOR SUPERCOMPUTING CLUSTER

Force10 Networks, Inc. today announced that Argonne National Laboratory (Argonne, IL) has successfully deployed Force10 E-Series switch/routers to connect to the TeraGrid, the world’s largest supercomputing grid,sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF). Read more >

 

June 30, 2003

MARC RANDALL PROMOTED TO PRESIDENT AND CEO OF FORCE10 NETWORKS

Force10 Networks, Inc., a developer of high density Ethernet switch/routers, purpose-built for Data Center, has appointed Mr. Marc Randall, current Senior Vice President of Engineering, to the position of President and Chief Executive Officer. Read more >

 

March 10, 2003

UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SELECTS FORCE10 NETWORKS FOR HIGH PERFORMANCE CAMPUS COMPUTING GRID

Force10 Networks, Inc. today announced that the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at The University of Texas at Austin has selected the E-Series switch/router to provide a next-generation, inter-campus grid computing infrastructure. Read more >

 

March 3, 2003

AIST IN JAPAN DEPLOYS FORCE10 NETWORKS E-SERIES SWITCH/ROUTERS

Force10 Networks, Inc. today announced that the Grid Technology Research Center (GTRC) at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) (Tsukuba, Japan) has deployed Force10 E-Series switch/routers as the central interconnection facility for a computing cluster designed for data-intensive computing. Read more >

 

February 21, 2003

FORCE10 NETWORKS CLOSES $41 MILLION INVESTMENT ROUND

Force10 Networks, Inc. today announced it has closed $41 million in new funding, bringing the total investment in the company to $209 million. Read more >

 

February 18, 2003

ALBERT EINSTEIN INSTITUTE CHOOSES FORCE10 NETWORKS FOR COMPUTING CLUSTER INTERCONNECT

Force10 Networks, Inc. today announced that the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Golm and Hannover, Germany), better known as the Albert Einstein Institute (AEI), has chosen the Force10 E-Series switch/routers as the central interconnection facility for their new, high-performance computing cluster. Read more >

 

February 6, 2003

FORCE10 NETWORKS RECEIVES NETWORK WORLD'S PRESTIGIOUS BLUE RIBBON AWARD

Force10 Networks, Inc. today announced its E1200 switch/router has received the Blue Ribbon Award from Network World in its first hands-on testing of new 10-Gigabit Ethernet switches. Read more >

 

February 3, 2003

UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM SELECTS FORCE10 NETWORKS FOR HIGH-PERFORMANCE GRID COMPUTING

Force10 Networks Inc., today announced the University of Amsterdam has selected Force10 E-Series switch/routers to provide a high performance network infrastructure for next-generation grid computing applications. Read more >

 

January 17, 2003

FORCE10 SLASHES PRICE OF 10-GIGABIT ETHERNET TO $17K PER PORT

Force10 Networks Inc., today announced greater than 40% price reductions on its 10-Gigabit Ethernet line cards, enabling customers to deploy line-rate 10-Gigabit Ethernet in a next-generation switch/router for just $17,000 per port. Read more >