Press Releases
2008
TRICON GEOPHYSICS SELECTS FORCE10 NETWORKS TO POWER ITS NETWORK INFRASTRUCTURE UPGRADE
SAN JOSE, Calif., September 30, 2008 – Force10 Networks®, the pioneer in building and securing reliable networks, today announced that Tricon Geophysics Inc. has deployed Force10’s C300 resilient switches and S50 access switches at their data centers in Houston and Denver. The seismic data processing services provider chose Force10 as part of a companywide initiative to upgrade its infrastructure to power more efficient data movement while gaining greater transparency into network traffic for its clustered server environment.
“Because we deal with huge data volumes from the field and our oil and gas clients, ensuring a proper flow of information between systems is our biggest challenge,” says Rizwan Toor, Tricon’s IT director. “Replacing our legacy switches with Force10 Networks has helped us answer this challenge while providing us with a cost-effective solution that ensures optimal productivity today, while providing the scalability we need to enter new markets and offer new services in the future.”
Seismic imaging creates enormous data volumes that range from 500 Gigabyte to several Terabyte (TB) single file sizes and projects as big as 4-5 TB to as much as 24 TB in size. Processing raw data and then moving scores of these large files can potentially create bottlenecks within the network, causing geoscientists, seismic engineers and others to wait long periods of time to access this critical data.
Tricon deployed one Force10 C300 switch at each of their Houston and Denver data centers. With up to 384 line-rate 10/100/1000Base-T ports per device, coupled with 5 microsecond switching latency under full load for 64 byte frames, the chassis-based switches provided the port density and performance Tricon required. With nearly 1,000 nodes in Houston and more than 250 nodes in Denver, Tricon leverages the switch’s passive copper backplane capacity of more than 1.5 Terabits per second and more than 950 Megabits per second of L2/L3 packet forwarding capacity. To bring Gigabit Ethernet connectivity and core-like resiliency to their network edge, Tricon also deployed two S50 access switches in both data centers.
Custom Operating System Offers Enhanced, More Unified Functionality
The Force10 Operating System (FTOS), available across its switch/router line, provides stability and performance advantages in part by separating memory allocation and process scheduling. Administrators, using an industry-standard interface, can easily manage both the C-Series and S-Series without significant retraining. To set up and monitor ongoing network traffic statistics, Tricon deployed the optional VirtualView™, a suite of features within FTOS that provides the company with pinpointed, real-time management of business-critical data performance.
“For seismic data processing service organizations, such as Tricon, their data is their corporate lifeblood,” said Stephen Garrison, vice president of marketing, Force10 Networks. “Their inability to efficiently and reliably process large amounts of data is not a software problem or a hardware problem – it’s a corporate challenge that must be answered. Our C-Series and S-Series switches significantly raise the bar by delivering unmatched performance, density, scalability, and resiliency for mission critical networks.”
The Force10 Reliable Networking™ product portfolio supports advances in reliability, network control and scalability that enable enterprises to lower their total cost of ownership. By building a flexible network that is ready to support emerging and evolving applications, enterprises can optimize their networks for current needs as well as future requirements.
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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