News and Events

2007

December 13, 2007

HOLLAND COMPUTING CENTER AT PETER KIEWIT INSTITUTE DEPLOYS FORCE10 TERASCALE E-SERIES TO POWER ONE OF WORLD’S FASTEST SUPERCOMPUTERS

Force10 Networks®, the pioneer in building and securing reliable networks, today announced that the Peter Kiewit Institute’s (PKI) Holland Computing Center at the University of Nebraska has deployed the TeraScale E-Series® family of switch/routers and S50 access switches in its newest supercomputer, which ranks 43 on the Top500.org list of the world’s fastest supercomputers.    Read more >

 

December 10, 2007

FORCE10 NETWORKS TERASCALE E-SERIES SWITCH/ROUTERS POWER SIX OF THE 15 FASTEST SUPERCOMPUTERS IN THE WORLD

Force10 Networks®, the pioneer in building and securing reliable networks, today announced that it provides the high performance foundation for 41 of the fastest supercomputers in the world, including six of the top 15, according to the 30th edition of the TOP500 list.    Read more >

 

December 4, 2007

FORCE10 NETWORKS AWARDED PATENTS FOR ADVANCES IN RELIABLE SWITCHING AND ROUTING SYSTEM DESIGN

Force10 Networks®, the pioneer in building and securing reliable networks, today announced that it has received two additional patents for its innovations in high performance switch and router design that increase system-level reliability.    Read more >

 

November 13, 2007

KOREAN NATIONAL SUPERCOMPUTING CENTER RELIES ON FORCE10 NETWORKS SWITCH/ROUTERS TO BUILD ONE OF THE WORLD’S LARGEST SUPERCOMPUTERS

Force10 Networks®, the pioneer in building and securing reliable networks, today announced that the Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information (KISTI), Korea’s national supercomputing center, has deployed the TeraScale E-Series® family of switch/routers and the S2410 data center switch to build a massively parallel processing (MPP) supercomputer with a peak performance of 250 Teraflops or 250 trillion calculations per second.    Read more >

 

November 12, 2007

FORCE10 NETWORKS POWERS SCINET AND DEMONSTRATES ULTRA LOW LATENCY OF THE S2410 10 GIGABIT ETHERNET SWITCH AT SUPERCOMPUTING CONFERENCE

Force10 Networks®, the pioneer in building and securing reliable networks, today announced that its Reliable Networking product portfolio, including the TeraScale E1200 switch/router and the S2410 data center switch, is powering SCinet, the high performance network built for the SC07 conference.    Read more >

 

November 8, 2007

PETROCHINA DEPLOYS FORCE10 NETWORKS SWITCH/ROUTERS TO INCREASE EFFICIENCY OF OIL AND GAS EXPLORATION

Force10 Networks®, the pioneer in building and securing reliable networks, today announced that PetroChina has deployed the TeraScale E-Series® family of switch/routers and S50 access switches to build a high performance network that will increase the efficiency of its oil and gas exploration operations.     Read more >

 

November 6, 2007

GERMAN RESEARCH CENTER DEPLOYS FORCE10 NETWORKS IN ONE OF EUROPE’S LARGEST SUPERCOMPUTERS

Force10 Networks®, the pioneer in building and securing reliable networks, today announced that Forschungszentrum Jülich has deployed the TeraScale E-Series® family of switch/routers in its newest supercomputer, which is primed to become the largest in Europe.      Read more >

 

October 23, 2007

FORCE10 NETWORKS NAMES JAMES WATTS AS VICE PRESIDENT OF WORLDWIDE CHANNELS AND ALLIANCES TO BUILD OUT PARTNERFORCE PROGRAM

Force10 Networks®, the pioneer in building and securing reliable networks, today announced that it has named James Watts as vice president of worldwide channels and alliances.      Read more >

 

October 18, 2007

FORCE10 NETWORKS NAMES LOREN HILLBERG AS GENERAL COUNSEL

Force10 Networks®, the pioneer in building and securing reliable networks, today announced that it has named Loren Hillberg as general counsel.      Read more >

 

October 16, 2007

LEADING SPANISH INSURER DEPLOYS FORCE10 NETWORKS TERASCALE E-SERIES TO BRING ALWAYS-ON APPLICATION ACCESS TO ITS DATA CENTERS

Force10 Networks®, the pioneer in building and securing reliable networks, today announced that Adeslas, a leading health insurance company in Spain, has successfully deployed the TeraScale E-Series® family of switch/routers at the foundation of its network to connect its Madrid data centers and provide reliable, always-on application access.      Read more >

 

October 9, 2007

LEADING CHINESE MEDIA COMPANY DEPLOYS FORCE10 TERASCALE E-SERIES TO POWER ONLINE GAMING SERVICES

Force10 Networks®, the pioneer in building and securing reliable networks, today announced that Shanda Interactive Entertainment (Nasdaq: SNDA), a leading interactive media company in China, has deployed the TeraScale E-Series® family of switch/routers to power its entertainment offerings, including massive multiplayer online role playing games (MMORPGs) and casual games.      Read more >

 

October 1, 2007

FORCE10 NETWORKS NAMES INDUSTRY VETERAN JAMES HANLEY AS VICE PRESIDENT OF WORLDWIDE SALES

Force10 Networks®, the pioneer in building and securing reliable networks, today announced that it has named James Hanley vice president of worldwide sales.      Read more >

 

September 26, 2007

CHINA’S LARGEST PORTAL INCREASES NETWORK SCALABILITY AND PERFORMANCE WITH FORCE10 TERASCALE E-SERIES

Force10 Networks®, the pioneer in building and securing reliable networks, today announced that Sina.com, China’s largest portal, has deployed the TeraScale E-Series® family of switch/routers to increase the performance of its leading search engine and portal.    Read more >

 

September 17, 2007

LEADING LIVE-ACTION 3D CONTENT CREATOR BUILDS HIGH PERFORMANCE, LOW LATENCY NETWORK WITH FORCE10 NETWORKS

Force10 Networks®, the pioneer in building and securing reliable networks, today announced that 3ality Digital Systems, the leading 3D technology and video production firm, has deployed the C300 resilient switch and S2410P low latency data center switch in the world’s first all-digital online 3D post production facility.   Read more >

 

September 12, 2007

FORCE10 NETWORKS CHIEF SCIENTIST EXPLORES IMPACT OF NEXT GENERATION ETHERNET STANDARD ON THE NETWORK

The long predicted and oft discussed convergence of transport technologies appears to be closer at hand as the IEEE Higher Speed Study Group (HSSG) begins to pursue the development of a next generation Ethernet standard, said Force10 Networks® Chief Scientist and Vice President of Technology Joel Goergen at the sixth annual Ethernet World conference in Shanghai.   Read more >

 

September 10, 2007

INDIANA TECH BUILDS HIGH PERFORMANCE CAMPUS NETWORK WITH FORCE10 RELIABLE NETWORKING PRODUCT PORTFOLIO

Force10 Networks®, the pioneer in building and securing reliable networks, today announced that Indiana Tech has built a high performance campus network that is anchored by the TeraScale E-Series® family of switch/routers and S50 access switches.  Read more >

 

September 5, 2007

FORCE10 NETWORKS PARTNERS WITH INDUSTRIA TO BUILD ICELAND’S FIRST PURPOSE-BUILT 3G MOBILE NETWORK

Force10 Networks®, the pioneer in building and securing reliable networks, today announced that it has partnered with broadband solutions provider Industria to build Nova, Iceland’s first purpose-built 3G mobile network.  Read more >

 

August 27, 2007

SOUTH KOREAN ONLINE PORTAL DEPLOYS FORCE10 NETWORKS END-TO-END DATA CENTER SOLUTION

Force10 Networks®, the pioneer in building and securing reliable networks, today announced that DAUM Communications Corp. has deployed the TeraScale
E-Series® family of switch/routers and S50N data center switches in a 10 Gigabit Ethernet network to power the second largest online portal in South Korea.  Read more >

 

August 13, 2007

GRID TELEKOM BUILDS OUT DATA CENTER AND FUTURE TRIPLE PLAY SERVICES WITH FORCE10 NETWORKS RELIABLE NETWORKING PORTFOLIO

Force10 Networks®, the pioneer in building and securing reliable networks, today announced that Grid Telekom, a leading data center and hosting service provider in Turkey, has deployed the Force10 Reliable Networking product portfolio to deliver high performance data center hosting services.  Read more >

 

July 24, 2007

FORCE10 NETWORKS GRANTED PATENT FOR ADVANCED HIGH PERFORMANCE BACKPLANE DESIGN

Force10 Networks®, the pioneer in building and securing reliable networks, today announced that it has received a patent for its advances in high performance backplane design that increase power and signaling efficiency.  Read more >

 

July 16, 2007

HALF OF WORLD’S TEN FASTEST SUPERCOMPUTERS LEVERAGE FORCE10 NETWORKS HIGH PERFORMANCE SWITCHES

Force10 Networks®, the pioneer in building and securing reliable networks, today announced that its TeraScale E-Series® family of switch/routers and S-Series family of access switches power five of the top 10 fastest supercomputers in the world and 24 of the fastest 100, as listed by Top500.org.  Read more >

 

June 27, 2007

CENTRAL EUROPE’S LARGEST INTERNET EXCHANGE TACKLES INCREASING TRAFFIC DEMANDS WITH FORCE10 NETWORKS TERASCALE E-SERIES SWITCH/ROUTERS

Force10 Networks®, the pioneer in building and securing reliable networks, today announced that DE-CIX, the largest Internet exchange in Central and Eastern Europe, is leveraging the scalable capacity of the TeraScale E-Series® family of switch/routers to meet the rapidly increasing bandwidth demands.  Read more >

 

June 20, 2007

FORCE10 NETWORKS WINS OUTSTANDING INNOVATOR AWARD FROM THE ASSOCIATION OF GERMAN INTERNET INDUSTRY

Force10 Networks®, the pioneer in building and securing reliable networks, today announced it has received the Outstanding Innovator Award from the Association of German Internet Industry (ECO) for the advanced high performance design of the TeraScale E-Series® family of switch/routers. Read more >

 

June 18, 2007

UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE DEPLOYS FORCE10 C-SERIES TO ANALYZE DATA FROM CERN’S LARGE HADRON COLLIDER

Force10 Networks®, the pioneer in building and securing reliable networks, today announced that the University of Tennessee physics department has deployed the C300 resilient switch to analyze data from CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC), a particle accelerator that will collide beams of protons and gather data that is produced during the collisions. Read more >

 

June 6, 2007

FORCE10 NETWORKS AWARDED PATENT FOR ADVANCES IN DELIVERING RELIABLE SWITCHING AND ROUTING PERFORMANCE

Force10 Networks®, the pioneer in building and securing reliable networks, today announced that it was awarded a patent for innovations in congestion management that allow the TeraScale E-Series® family of switch/routers to deliver predictable performance and throughput regardless of traffic conditions.  Read more >

 

May 31, 2007

FORCE10 NETWORKS CEO MARC RANDALL NAMED ERNST & YOUNG ENTREPRENEUR OF THE YEAR® 2007 AWARD FINALIST IN NORTHERN CALIFORNIA

Force10 Networks®, the pioneer in building and securing reliable networks, today announced that Force10 CEO Marc Randall is a finalist for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2007 Award in the Northern California Region. Read more >

 

May 21, 2007

FORCE10 NETWORKS HIGHLIGHTS RELIABLE NETWORKING AT INTEROP 2007

Force10 Networks®, the pioneer in building and securing reliable networks, will highlight its reliable networking product portfolio at Interop 2007. Read more >

 

May 21, 2007

FORCE10 NETWORKS JOINS WITH ARUBA, STILLSECURE AND AVAYA TO DELIVER RELIABLE BUSINESS NETWORKS

Force10 Networks®, the pioneer in building and securing reliable networks, today announced that it is joining with Aruba Networks (NASDAQ: ARUN), StillSecure® and Avaya to deliver reliable network solutions that ensure the enterprise can flexibly adapt to emerging applications. Read more >

 

May 21, 2007

FORCE10 NETWORKS SELECTED FOR MEMBERSHIP IN AVAYA DEVELOPERCONNECTION PROGRAM

Force10 Networks®, the pioneer in building and securing reliable networks, today announced it has been selected by Avaya Inc. (NYSE: AV), a leading global provider of business communications applications, systems and services, for membership in the Avaya DeveloperConnection program. Read more >

 

May 14, 2007

FORCE10 NETWORKS INTRODUCES C-SERIES RESILIENT SWITCH TO BRING RELIABILITY CHARACTERISTICS TO MIDSIZE DATA CENTERS AND WIRING CLOSETS

Force10 Networks®, the pioneer in building and securing reliable networks, today introduced the C300 resilient switch that delivers the reliability, network control and scalability IT managers require to ensure their network is a strategic asset. Read more >

 

May 2, 2007

FORCE10 NETWORKS NAMES ERIC TOM VICE PRESIDENT OF BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT

Force10 Networks®, the pioneer in building and securing reliable networks, today announced that Eric Tom has been named vice president of business development. Read more >

 

April 25, 2007

FORCE10 NETWORKS JOINS THE GREEN GRID TO HELP DEVELOP ENERGY-EFFICIENT SOLUTIONS FOR THE DATA CENTER

Force10 Networks®, the pioneer in building and securing reliable networks, today announced it has joined The Green Grid, a non-profit consortium dedicated to advancing energy efficiency in data centers and business computing ecosystems. Read more >

 

April 18, 2007

FORCE10 NETWORKS DONATES WIRELESS-ENABLED LAPTOPS TO THE HORATIO ALGER ASSOCIATION’S CLASS OF 2007 SCHOLARS

Force10 Networks® today announced that it is donating new wireless-enabled laptop computers to the Horatio Alger Class of 2007 scholarship recipients to ensure that the incoming college freshmen will have access to the resources they need to succeed in their academic careers. Read more >

 

April 16, 2007

FORCE10 NETWORKS JOINS WITH ISILON SYSTEMS TO DELIVER OPTIMIZED HIGH PERFORMANCE DATA CENTER SOLUTIONS

Force10 Networks®, the pioneer in building and securing reliable networks, today announced that it is joining with Isilon® Systems, the leader in clustered storage, to bring optimized high performance networking solutions to the data center. Read more >

 

April 4, 2007

FORCE10 NETWORKS AWARDED PATENT FOR INNOVATIONS IN RELIABLE SWITCHING AND ROUTING

Force10 Networks®, the pioneer in building and securing reliable networks, today announced that it has been awarded a patent for its advances in delivering reliable system-level performance and throughput. Read more >

 

March 26, 2007

FORCE10 NETWORKS CHIEF SCIENTIST EXAMINES POWER AND COOLING ISSUES IN DESIGNING 100 GIGABIT ETHERNET SYSTEMS

The least defined issue of architecting a 100 Gigabit Ethernet system is power, Force10 Networks® Chief Scientist Joel Goergen said at OFC/NFOEC 2007. Read more >

 

March 21, 2007

FORCE10 NETWORKS VICE PRESIDENT EXAMINES BEST PRACTICES FOR IMPLEMENTING SERVICE ORIENTED ARCHITECTURES IN THE DATA CENTER

To realize the advantages of a service oriented architecture, it is necessary to build out a service oriented infrastructure that provides the scalability and flexibility required to support a highly dynamic application environment, Marshall Bartozsek, vice president of EMEA sales for Force10 Networks®, said today during the Data Centres Europe conference. Read more >

 

March 19, 2007

HANARO TELECOM TURNS ON VIDEO SERVICES WITH FORCE10 NETWORKS TERASCALE E-SERIES

Force10 Networks®, the pioneer in building and securing high performance networks, today announced that Hanaro Telecom, the second largest telecommunications carrier in South Korea, is deploying the TeraScale E-Series® family of switch/routers in its fiber to the home (FTTH) network to power its new HanaTV service. Read more >

 

March 12, 2007

eHARMONY PAIRS WITH FORCE10 NETWORKS TO POWER LEADING ONLINE RELATIONSHIP SERVICE

Force10 Networks®, the pioneer in building and securing high performance networks, today announced that eHarmony is powering its online relationship service with the TeraScale E-Series® family of switch/routers. Read more >

 

February 22, 2007

FORCE10 NETWORKS CHIEF SCIENTIST HIGHLIGHTS IMPORTANCE OF ADVANCED BACKPLANE DESIGN TO SUPPORT 100 GIGABIT TRAFFIC

Providing system-level support for 100 Gigabit Ethernet requires an advanced backplane design that can ensure line-rate transmission of traffic throughout the system, said Joel Goergen, chief scientist and vice president of technology at Force10 Networks® during the Optoelectronics Industry Development Association OIDA conference. Read more >

 

February 15, 2007

FORCE10 NETWORKS CHIEF SECURITY SCIENTIST DISCUSSES BEST PRACTICES FOR SECURING AND MONITORING HIGH PERFORMANCE NETWORKS

Force10 Networks®, the pioneer in building and securing high performance networks, today announced that eHarmony is powering its online relationship service with the TeraScale E-Series® family of switch/routers. Read more >

 

February 13, 2007

FORCE10 NETWORKS USES NETBSD TO BUILD SOFTWARE SCALABILITY INTO OPERATING SYSTEM

The NetBSD® Foundation today announced that Force10 Networks®, the pioneer in building and securing high performance networks, has leveraged NetBSD as the foundation for the Force10 Operating System (FTOS). Read more >

 

February 5, 2007

MZIMA BUILDS SCALABLE AND RESILIENT TRANSCONTINENTAL 10 GIGABIT ETHERNET BACKBONE WITH FORCE10 NETWORKS TERASCALE E-SERIES

Force10 Networks®, the pioneer in building and securing high performance networks, today announced that Mzima Networks has deployed the TeraScale E-Series® family of switch/routers to anchor its worldwide high performance 10 Gigabit Ethernet backbone. Read more >

 

January 17, 2007

PANDO NETWORKS ENABLES LARGE FILE SHARING SERVICE WITH FORCE10 NETWORKS TERASCALE E-SERIES

Force10 Networks®, the pioneer in building and securing high performance networks, today announced that Pando Networks has deployed the TeraScale E-Series® family of switch/routers and S50 data center switches to build a high performance 10 Gigabit Ethernet network that is reliably processing over 50 Terabytes of data every day. Read more >

 

January 9, 2007

FORCE10 NETWORKS AWARDED PATENTS FOR ITS LEADING BACKPLANE AND ROUTING TECHNOLOGY

Force10 Networks®, the pioneer in building and securing high performance networks, today announced that it has been awarded two patents protecting the leading 100 Gigabit Ethernet-enabled backplane and robust routing technology that power the TeraScale E-Series® family of switch/routers. Force10 now holds 18 U.S. and international patents. Read more >