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2008

UCL BUILDS DYNAMIC FOUNDATION FOR RESEARCH WITH FORCE10 NETWORKS TERASCALE E-SERIES SWITCH/ROUTERS

SAN JOSE, Calif., March 25, 2008 – Force10 Networks®, the pioneer in building and securing reliable networks, today announced that University College London (UCL) has deployed the TeraScale E-Series® family of switch/routers to build a dynamic and scalable foundation for advanced research.  The Force10 TeraScale E1200 delivers the flexibility and network control UCL requires to efficiently set up and reconfigure experiments for network and systems research.

“UCL is committed to providing advanced tools for computer scientists and Ph.D. researchers to promote innovation and study,” said Mark Handley, professor of network systems at UCL.  “The Force10 E-Series gives us the ability to dynamically provision multiple VLANs, allowing our researchers to quickly and efficiently tailor the network topology to conduct state-of-the-art experiments, thus saving money and valuable resource time.”

The Force10 TeraScale E1200 allows UCL researchers to connect more than 500 Gigabit Ethernet ports to 100 servers to form a high density, non-blocking network.  The Force10 16-port 10 Gigabit Ethernet line card enables UCL to undertake advanced network research at 10 Gigabit speeds while also providing the core of the testbed.  With support for up to 4,096 VLANs on a single system, the TeraScale E1200 also allows UCL to dynamically reconfigure the network topology for new research requirements, providing a level of flexibility that lets researchers fully utilize the power and capacity of the network.

"Our history of partnership with leading edge research facilities like UCL has helped us build products that deliver the flexibility to seamlessly adapt to ever changing environments," said Stephen Garrison, vice president of marketing at Force10 Networks. "The scalability and reliability of the Force10 TeraScale E-Series allow organizations like UCL to efficiently conduct advanced research and experiments that leverage the full power of the network."

According to the most recent Top500 list of the world's fastest supercomputers, the Force10 Reliable Networking product portfolio powers six of the top 15 supercomputers. Delivering reliability, network control and scalability, the Force10 Reliable Networking product portfolio guarantees that organizations are able to meet bandwidth and application needs now and well into the future.

About UCL
Founded in 1826, UCL was the first English university established after Oxford and Cambridge, the first to admit students regardless of race, class, religion or gender, and the first to provide systematic teaching of law, architecture and medicine. In the government’s most recent Research Assessment Exercise, 59 UCL departments achieved top ratings of 5* and 5, indicating research quality of international excellence.

UCL is in the top ten world universities in the 2007 THES-QS World University Rankings, and the fourth-ranked UK university in the 2007 league table of the top 500 world universities produced by the Shanghai Jiao Tong University. UCL alumni include Marie Stopes, Jonathan Dimbleby, Lord Woolf, Alexander Graham Bell, and members of the band Coldplay. www.ucl.ac.uk

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