News and Events

2005

December 19, 2005

FORCE10 NETWORKS AWARDED FIVE PATENTS FOR GROUNDBREAKING TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCES THAT DRIVE THE TERASCALE E-SERIES

Force10 Networks today announced that it has been awarded five patents for the advanced technological achievements that are at the foundation of the high performance TeraScale E-Series. Read more >

 

December 6, 2005

FORCE10 NETWORKS NAMES STANLEY MERESMAN TO BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Force10 Networks today announced that it has named Stanley Meresman to its board of directors. Read more >

 

November 29, 2005

FORCE10 TERASCALE E-SERIES ENABLES RECORD SETTING DEMONSTRATIONS DURING BANDWIDTH CHALLENGE AT SUPERCOMPUTING CONFERENCE

Force10 Networks today announced that its TeraScale E-Series provided the high 10 Gigabit Ethernet density that enabled the Bandwidth Challenge entries at the SC05 conference to demonstrate the latest applications for harnessing large amounts of bandwidth to advance science and solve problems. Read more >

 

November 29, 2005

FORCE10 TERASCALE E-SERIES POWERS FIFTEEN OF THE FASTEST SUPERCOMPUTERS IN THE WORLD

Force10 Networks today announced that its TeraScale E-Series family of switch/routers powers 15 of the world’s 100 fastest supercomputers, including two of the top 10, according to a list published by Top500.org. Read more >

 

November 28, 2005

FORCE10 NETWORKS FASTEST GROWING MODULAR 10 GIGABIT ETHERNET VENDOR

Force10 Networks increased its 10 Gigabit Ethernet port shipments by 280 percent in the third quarter of 2005 over the same period a year ago, growing at a rate nearly twice as fast as its nearest competitor, according to Dell’Oro Group’s most recent Ethernet switch survey. Read more >

 

November 15, 2005

FORCE10 NETWORKS ACQUIRES HIGH PERFORMANCE SECURITY PIONEER METANETWORKS

Force10 Networks today announced that it has acquired privately held MetaNetworks Inc., the pioneer of line-rate 10 Gigabit intrusion detection and prevention technology. Read more >

 

November 15, 2005

FORCE10 NETWORKS DEMONSTRATES SECURE LINE-RATE 10 GIGABIT ETHERNET NETWORKING AT SUPERCOMPUTING 2005 CONFERENCE

Force10 Networks today announced that it will demonstrate the industry’s first line-rate 10 Gigabit per second intrusion prevention and detection technology along with industry-leading 10 Gigabit Ethernet density this week at SC05, the premier international conference on high performance computing, networking and storage. Read more >

 

November 9, 2005

FORCE10 TERASCALE E-SERIES ANCHORS STARLIGHT ACCESS POINT WITH HIGH 10 GIGABIT ETHERNET DENSITY, CONNECTING WORLD’S LARGEST RESEARCH AND EDUCATION NETWORKS

Force10 Networks today announced that StarLight, one of the world’s largest optical network exchanges for national and international research and education networks, is utilizing the high 10 Gigabit Ethernet density of the TeraScale E-Series to enable high-performance, flexible peering. Read more >

 

November 2, 2005

FORCE10 NETWORKS AND IMMIXGROUP FACILITATE GOVERNMENT PURCHASES OF TERASCALE E-SERIES VIA GSA SCHEDULE

Force10 Networks and immixGroupsm, Inc., a government business consulting and channel management company, today announced that the General Services Administration (GSA) has approved the TeraScale E-Series family of switch/routers for its Group 70 IT schedule. Read more >

 

October 31, 2005

FORCE10 NETWORKS SETS INDUSTRY RECORD FOR 10 GIGABIT ETHERNET DENSITY AND PRICE, DELIVERING A NEW LEVEL OF FLEXIBILITY TO DATA CENTERS

Force10 Networks today announced that it has increased the 10 Gigabit Ethernet density of the TeraScale E-Series to an industry-leading 224 ports per system, providing the performance scalability that enables enterprises to cost effectively deploy 10 Gigabit Ethernet as the foundation of their next-generation data centers. Read more >

 

October 26, 2005

FORCE10 NETWORKS CHIEF SCIENTIST HIGHLIGHTS NECESSARY STEPS TO DEVELOPING A 100 GIGBABIT ETHERNET STANDARD

Tight integration and careful design methodology at the system level are fundamental requirements for ensuring high performance at 100 Gigabits per second speeds, said Joel Goergen, chief scientist and vice president of technology at Force10 Networks, during a meeting of the Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF) to review technical specifications for the emerging technology. Read more >

 

October 24, 2005

UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA DEPLOYS FORCE10 TERASCALE E-SERIES IN ONE OF THE WORLD’S LARGEST SUPERCOMPUTERS

Force10 Networks today announced that the OU Supercomputing Center for Education and Research (OSCER) at the University of Oklahoma has deployed the TeraScale E-Series switch/routers in its newest cluster, which was recently ranked as the 54th fastest supercomputer in the world by the Top500.org. Read more >

 

October 17, 2005

‘CITY OF HEROES’ ONLINE GAME DEVELOPER INCREASES PERFORMANCE AND RELIABILITY OF ITS VIRTUAL WORLDS WITH FORCE10 TERASCALE E-SERIES

Force10 Networks today announced that NCsoft Corp., a leading developer of online games, is leveraging the high density and resiliency of the TeraScale E-Series to provide a reliable, high performance online gaming environment that connects tens of thousands of users. Read more >

 

October 11, 2005

HUMAN GENOME SEQUENCING CENTER AT BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE DEPLOYS FORCE10 TERASCALE E-SERIES TO INCREASE NETWORK SCALABILITY

Force10 Networks today announced that the Human Genome Sequencing Center (HGSC) at Baylor College of Medicine has deployed the Force10 TeraScale E-Series to build reliable scalability into its network and speed the processing of complex genome data. Read more >

 

October 3, 2005

THE SUN NEVER SETS ON FORCE10 NETWORKS SERVICE AND SUPPORT; OPENS NEW TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE CENTERS IN EUROPE AND ASIA TO SUPPORT RAPIDLY GROWING CUSTOMER BASE

Force10 Networks today announced that it has expanded its presence in Europe and Asia with three new technical assistance centers (TACs) that will allow the company to better serve its rapidly expanding worldwide customer base. Read more >

 

September 27, 2005

FORCE10 NETWORKS ANCHORS HIGH DENSITY 10 GIGABIT ETHERNET NETWORK AT IGRID 2005 CONFERENCE, ENABLING ADVANCED REAL-TIME APPLICATIONS

Force10 Networks today announced that its TeraScale E-Series family of switch/routers is anchoring the high performance network for the iGrid 2005 conference, providing nearly 300 Gigabits per second of bandwidth to illustrate the future of scientific problem solving. Read more >

 

September 26, 2005

FORCE10 NETWORKS DEPLOYED BY BAIDU.COM TO POWER CHINA’S LARGEST SEARCH ENGINE NETWORK; WORLD’S SIXTH MOST VISITED WEBSITE RELIES ON RESILIENCY OF TERASCALE E-SERIES

Force10 Networks today announced that Baidu.com (NASDAQ: BIDU), China’s largest search engine, has deployed the TeraScale E-Series at the core of its data centers to increase network capacity today and build in the long-term scalability that will accommodate future growth. Read more >

 

September 21, 2005

FORCE10 NETWORKS CEO MARC RANDALL HIGHLIGHTS IMPACT OF CLUSTERING AND 10 GIGABIT ETHERNET TECHNOLOGIES ON BUSINESS COMPETITIVENESS

Falling computing costs and the rise of 10 Gigabit Ethernet are fundamentally changing the way businesses do business, said Force10 President and CEO Marc Randall today at the 35th Annual Bank of America Investment Conference in San Francisco. Read more >

 

September 19, 2005

CERN BUILDS EUROPE'S LARGEST CAMPUS NETWORK WITH FORCE10 TERASCALE E-SERIES; DEPLOYS FIRST PRODUCTION INTERCONTINENTAL 10 GIGABIT ETHERNET WAN LINKS

Force10 Networks today announced that CERN, the world's largest particle physics laboratory, will deploy the TeraScale E-Series family of switch/routers as the foundation of its new 2.4 Terabit per second (Tbps) high performance grid computing farm. Read more >

 

September 6, 2005

TOWER HILL INSURANCE INCREASES NETWORK SCALABILITY AND RELIABLE PERFORMANCE WITH FORCE10 NETWORKS TERASCALE E-SERIES

Force10 Networks today announced that Florida-based Tower Hill Insurance Group has selected the Force10 TeraScale E-Series to bring increased scalability and reliable performance to its network. Read more >

 

August 29, 2005

KOREAN NATIONAL SUPERCOMPUTING CENTER DEPLOYS FORCE10 TERASCALE E-SERIES TO BUILD RESILIENT INTERNATIONAL GRID NETWORK

Force10 Networks today announced that the Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information (KISTI), Korea's national supercomputer center, has deployed the Force10 TeraScale E-Series in an international grid network to connect the country with scientists and researchers worldwide via the Global Ring Network for Advanced Applications Development (GLORIAD). Read more >

 

July 18, 2005

HOSTECH GLOBAL INCREASES NETWORK CAPACITY AND PERFORMANCE WITH FORCE10 NETWORKS TERASCALE E-SERIES

Force10 Networks today announced that Hostech Global, Korea's largest server hosting provider, has deployed the TeraScale E-Series to expand capacity and scalability at the core of its network. Read more >

 

July 12, 2005

EQUINIX LAUNCHES 10 GIGABIT ETHERNET EXCHANGE WITH FORCE10 TERASCALE E-SERIES

Force10 Networks today announced that Equinix (Nasdaq: EQIX), the leading provider of network-neutral data centers and Internet exchange services, has deployed the industry-leading TeraScale E-Series switch/routers in a 10 Gigabit Ethernet upgrade to its Washington, D.C. area Internet Business Exchange (IBX) center, with planned deployments to IBX centers in the New York, Silicon Valley and Chicago areas by the end of 2005. Read more >

 

July 6, 2005

ALWAYSON NAMES FORCE10 NETWORKS AS TOP PRIVATE COMPANY FOR NETWORKING INNOVATION

Force10 Networks today announced that AlwaysOn, an open media network, has named it to the AO 100 Top Private Companies for the innovation behind the industry-leading TeraScale E-Series family of switch/routers. Read more >

 

June 27, 2005

FORCE10 TERASCALE E-SERIES POWERS 23 OF THE WORLD'S FASTEST SUPERCOMPUTERS

Force10 Networks today announced that the TeraScale E-Series powers seven of the top 50 fastest supercomputers in the world, including one in the top five, according to a list published last Wednesday by Top500.org that ranks the performance of the world's fastest computers. Read more >

 

June 20, 2005

STEALTH COMMUNICATIONS DEPLOYS FORCE10 E-SERIES IN NEW YORK PEERING EXCHANGE TO INTERCONNECT 200 VOICE AND DATA PROVIDERS

Force10 Networks was the fastest growing modular 10 Gigabit Ethernet vendor in the industry during the first quarter of 2005, increasing sales by 20 percent quarter over quarter, according to Dell'Oro's most recent Ethernet switch report. Read more >

 

June 1, 2005

PETER KIEWIT INSTITUTE INCREASES PERFORMANCE AND RELIABILITY OF ITS ADVANCED NETWORKS WITH THE FORCE10 E-SERIES AND S50 END-TO-END SOLUTION

Force10 Networks today announced that the Peter Kiewit Institute (PKI) at the University of Nebraska has deployed a combination of the E-Series and S50 in its advanced research networks and clusters to increase performance and reliability. Read more >

 

May 24, 2005

TRUESERVER DEPLOYS FORCE10 TERASCALE E-SERIES IN 10 GIGABIT ETHERNET CORE UPGRADE TO INCREASE RELIABILITY AND SIMPLIFY THE NETWORK

Force10 Networks today announced that TrueServer, a Netherlands-based colocation and hosting service provider, has deployed the TeraScale E-Series in an upgrade of its network to 10 Gigabits per second. Read more >

 

May 2, 2005

FORCE10 HIGHLIGHTS INDUSTRY-LEADING GIGABIT AND 10 GIGABIT ETHERNET TECHNOLOGY AT INTEROP CONFERENCE

Force10 Networks will showcase its industry-leading portfolio of Gigabit and 10 Gigabit Ethernet switch/routers that are radically altering network economics at the Interop 2005 conference in Las Vegas, May 3-5. Read more >

 

April 25, 2005

FORCE10 BRINGS UNPRECEDENTED SCALABILITY AND INVESTMENT PROTECTION TO NETWORKS WITH INDUSTRY-LEADING 1,260 GIGABIT ETHERNET PORTS

Radically altering the economics of networking, Force10 Networks today introduced the industry's first 90-port Gigabit Ethernet line card, increasing the density of its TeraScale E-Series family of switch/routers to more than 1,260 Gigabit Ethernet ports per chassis, nearly three times the density of competitive solutions. Read more >

 

April 25, 2005

NOAA'S NATIONAL CLIMATIC DATA CENTER DEPLOYS FORCE10 TERASCALE E-SERIES WITH ITS HIGH DENSITY PORTFOLIO FOR UNPRECEDENTED SCALABILITY

Force10 Networks today announced that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) in Asheville, N.C., the world's largest archive of weather data, has deployed the Force10 TeraScale E-Series with the industry-leading 90-port Gigabit Ethernet line cards to add an unprecedented level of scalability to its high performance data center. Read more >

 

April 12, 2005

FORCE10 NETWORKS TERASCALE E300 WINS EWEEK'S EXCELLENCE AWARD FOR NETWORKING INFRASTRCUTURE

Force10 Networks today announced that the TeraScale E300 switch/router was named the winner of the networking infrastructure category for eWEEK's Fifth Annual Excellence Awards program. Read more >

 

March 28, 2005

FORCE10 INTRODUCES S-SERIES DATA CENTER SWITCH TO DELIVER HIGH PERFORMANCE END-TO-END SOLUTIONS

Force10 Networks today introduced the S50 Gigabit and 10 Gigabit Ethernet data center switch, the first fixed configuration switch purpose built for the rigorous requirements of data centers. Read more >

 

March 9, 2005

FORCE10 NETWORKS AWARDED PATENT FOR UNIQUE BACKPLANE DESIGN THAT SCALES UP TO FIVE TERABITS

Force10 Networks, the pioneer in Gigabit and 10 Gigabit Ethernet innovation, today announced that it has been awarded a patent for its groundbreaking advancements in developing the high capacity backplane that powers the TeraScale E-Series. Force10 has more than 50 patents and patents pending for its innovations in terabit scale switching and routing. Read more >

 

February 15, 2005

INTERNET2 SELECTS FORCE10 E-SERIES FOR NATIONAL DEPLOYMENT EXAMINING HIGH PERFORMANCE OPTICAL AND PACKET ARCHITECTURES

Force10 Networks, the pioneer in Gigabit and 10 Gigabit Ethernet networking, today announced that Internet2 has selected the Force10 E-Series family of switch/routers for its Hybrid Optical and Packet Infrastructure (HOPI) project, which will serve as a model for tomorrow's high performance network architectures. Read more >

 

February 8, 2005

FORCE10 CEO MARC RANDALL SHOWCASES BENEFITS OF NEW DATA CENTER ECONOMICS TO ENTERPRISES AT THOMAS WEISEL TECH2005 CONFERENCE

Dramatic new advances in networking density and reliability are rapidly giving rise to a new economic paradigm in the data center, Force10 Networks CEO Marc Randall said today. Read more >

 

February 1, 2005

FORCE10 NETWORKS NAMES DENNIS O’CONNELL VICE PRESIDENT OF U.S. CENTRAL REGION

Force10 Networks, the pioneer in Gigabit and 10 Gigabit Ethernet innovation, today announced that Dennis O’Connell has been named vice president of the U.S. central region. Read more >

 

January 18, 2005

FORCE10 TERASCALE E1200 NAMED ENTERPRISE SWITCHING AND ROUTING PRODUCT OF THE YEAR BY SEARCHNETWORKING

Force10 Networks today announced that Tech Target’s Searchnetworking.com has named the TeraScale E1200 as the enterprise switching and routing Product of the Year for 2004, giving it the gold award for the category. Read more >

 

January 18, 2005

FORCE10 NETWORKS AND LIGHT READING TO EXPLORE THE DYNAMICS OF HIGH AVAILABILITY DATA CENTERS IN WEBINAR

Force10 Networks today announced that it will explore the revenue implications of greater availability in the next-generation data center during a webinar with Light Reading on Wednesday, Jan. 19, at 12:00 p.m. EST / 9:00 a.m. PST. Read more >

 

January 10, 2005

PENN STATE DEPLOYS FORCE10 E-SERIES IN HIGH PERFORMANCE CLUSTER TO PROVIDE RELIABLE AND SCALABLE COMPUTATIONAL POWER FOR STUDENTS AND FACULTY

Force10 Networks today announced that the High Performance Computing and Visualization group at the Pennsylvania State University has deployed the E-Series in its newest cluster LION-XO to provide scalable and reliable bandwidth for the computational needs of faculty and researchers. Read more >