Press Releases
2005
FORCE10 NETWORKS TERASCALE E300 WINS EWEEK'S EXCELLENCE AWARD FOR NETWORKING INFRASTRCUTURE
MILPITAS, Calif., April 12, 2005 — 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. In announcing the award, the magazine wrote, "For its packet-processing innovations and strong scalability, Force10 Networks' TeraScale E300 stood above the crowd as the Networking Infrastructure winner."
With the industry's highest Gigabit Ethernet density in the most compact form factor, the TeraScale E300 enables network operators to cost effectively build out high performance networks. With built-in redundancy and an architecture that distributes switching, routing and management functionality between three processing units, the TeraScale E300 provides an unmatched level of resiliency.
The TeraScale E300 delivers the high level of resiliency and performance previously seen only in research networks to enterprises at large," said Stephen Garrison, vice president of corporate marketing at Force10 Networks. "This recognition validates not only the innovation of our engineering team but also our vision of cost-effective, high performance networking in the enterprise."
The TeraScale E300 can process more traffic on a single system than competitive solutions, simplifying topologies by reducing network layers. In addition to simplifying the network, the TeraScale E300 reduces capital and operational expenditures, including power, cabling, engineering support and maintenance.
In addition to its high density, the TeraScale E300 also provides a high level of investment protection. In its selection of the TeraScale E300 for its Excellence Award, eWEEK notes that its backplane "will be able to accommodate future speeds beyond 10 Gigabit Ethernet." The full article is located at www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1784410,00.asp.
The eWEEK Excellence Awards program provides enterprise IT professionals with a benchmark for assessing a wide range of technology products and services. A panel of experts, including eWEEK Labs analysts and eWEEK corporate partners, evaluated this year's entries to provide a unique mix of technical and real-world analysis.
The Force10 TeraScale E-Series supports industry-leading Gigabit and 10 Gigabit Ethernet densities and, as the industry's first true Terabit switch/router, can process one billion packets per second. By combining that performance with unmatched resiliency, the TeraScale E-Series changes the economics of networking in high performance research labs and enterprise networks alike.
About Force10 Networks
Force10 Networks develops high-performance data center solutions powered by the industry’s most innovative line of open, standards-based, networking hardware and software. The company’s Open Cloud Networking framework grants Web 2.0/portal operators, cloud and hosting providers, enterprise and special-purpose data center customers new levels of flexibility, performance, scale and automation—fundamentally changing the economics of data center networking. Force10 Networks operates globally, providing 24x7 service and support to its customer base in more than 60 countries worldwide. For more information, visit www.force10networks.com.
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