White Papers

FTOS

• FTOS Modular Operating System
• Force10’s FTOS Delivers End-to-End Reliability While Lowering Network TCO
• The Hardware Abstraction Layer: Enabling FTOS to Span the Switching and Routing Infrastructure
• Next-Generation Switch/Router Diagnostics and Debugging

Data Center

• Ethernet: The High Bandwidth Low-Latency Data Center Switching Fabric
• Managing Data Center Power and Cooling
• Virtual Data Center Architectures
• Service Oriented Architectures: The Network Perspective
• Data Center Consolidation & Virtualization
• Server Consolidation and Remote Disaster Recovery
• IP Storage over 10 Gigabit Ethernet

Service Provider

• Best Effort Traffic Drives Service Providers to Simpler, Faster Cores
• Simplifying POP Architectures
• The 10 Gbps Internet Exchange

Enterprise

• Real-Time Applications over the IP Network
• The Case for the Unified Network Fabric
• Benchmarking Uptime for Your Business: Methodology and Best Practices
• Future-proofing the Wiring Closet with Resilient and Scalable Modular Switch/Routers
• High Performance 10 Gbps Backbones
• Role of Ethernet in Content Delivery
• Evolution of the Spanning Tree Protocol

Computing

• Low Latency 10 GbE Switching
• Grid / Cluster Anatomy: Role of Ethernet
• The Top Ten Supercomputers
• Ethernet Based High Performance Computing Clusters

10 Gigabit Ethernet

• IP Storage over 10 Gigabit Ethernet
• Buffering at 10 Gbps for Congestion Management
• 10 Gigabit Ethernet WAN PHY
• 10 Gigabit Ethernet Standard

Industry Links:
IEEE 802.3ae 10 Gbps Ethernet Task Force

Switching & Routing

Next Generation Terabit Switch/Routers

• Transforming Network Architectures

E-Series Technology

• Architecture Overview
• Architecture in Depth
• High Availability Design
• Hot Lock™ ACLs

Security

• High Performance Network Security

TCO Modeling

• Modeling Total Cost of Ownership Leveraging High Density and Resilient Systems