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Innovative Best-of-Breed Technology

IBM leverages Force10 Networks’ best-of-breed resilient switching and routing, the foundation of any high performance computing cluster (HPCC) or Grid network, or data center core. The Force10 E-Series switch/routers ensure predictable application performance, increase network availability, and reduce operating costs.

The unique E-Series architecture leverages a separate control and data plane, while distributing routing, switching and system management between three independent CPUs to ensure predictable performance even under tremendous traffic loads and intensive processing tasks. Throughput and line-rate performance are guaranteed, even with features like security filters (Access Control Lists) and Quality of Service (QoS) enabled.

Industry Leading Density and Non-blocking Performance

• Industry leading capacity and density of GbE and 10 GbE ports with line-rate performance
• Pre-provisioning, hot insertion and removal features ensure seamless growth
• Deep buffering and congestion management technology ensure maximum network efficiency
• 100 GbE ready chassis and passive copper backplane guarantee investment protection Advanced Resiliency Features for Maximum Uptime
• Hitless component failover with zero packet loss at Terabit speeds
• 3-CPU route processor module and distributed forwarding deliver predictable performance during dynamic traffic loads
• Multiple levels of physical and logical redundancy mechanisms Scalable Security and Management
• Hot-lock Layer 2/Layer 3 ACLs allow realtime editing of rules without opening holes
• DoS protection hardware filters rate limit and prioritize control plane messages
• Secure management with SSH, SNMPv3
• Scalable sFlow traffic accounting with line card offload