Testimonials
Data Centers
SEGA Corp is the world’s largest interactive entertainment company and continues to revolutionize gaming industry with such titles as RF Online and CHOMEHOUNDS. By deploying the Force10 TeraScale E-Series in its online gaming network, SEGA can seamlessly support thousands of gamers in multiple worlds without compromising the performance of the game.
“The Force10 E-Series switch/routers provide us with the high capacity we need to simplify our network — allowing us to create the reliability of an offline game in an interactive online world.”
Yoshimi Agata
Network Engineer, SEGA Corporation
CGGVeritas is a leading provider of integrated geophysical, geological and reservoir technologies to the petroleum industry worldwide. Inside its data center, Force10 E-Series switch/routers interconnect one of the largest digital repositories in the world.
“Force10’s E-Series provides the resiliency and scalability that brings predictable performance and flexibility to our network, enabling us to more effectively provide the information our customers need to explore oil reserves.”
Phil Gaskell
Global Network Manager, CGGVeritas
Yahoo! is one of the leading Internet companies in the world offering a broad array of communications, commerce and content services to approximately 411 million unique users. Yahoo! deployed the TeraScale E-Series switch/routers and S50 switches in its multiple data centers to build a core network that could scale to support the growing traffic demands of new users and applications.
“We needed a scalable infrastructure that could support not only the high traffic demand today but enable us to scale out our network as we add new users and applications in the future.”
Raj Patel
Senior Director of Network Engineering, Yahoo!
Tower Hill is a leading property and casualty insurer in the Southeast. To build out a scalable network that can deliver predictable performance and grow with increasing traffic demands, Tower Hill upgraded its infrastructure with the TeraScale E-Series.
“The Force10 E-Series allows us to build the long-term scalability and reliability into our network that enabled us to reduce our backup time from as many as seven hours to one.”
Brian Elsmore
Chief Information Officer, Tower Hill Insurance
Joyent provides on-demand applications, compute, storage, and services to teams around the world. The ease with which Joyent’s solution scales to meet increased server demands allows end-user, startups and developers to focus on their business instead of their servers. Founded in 2004 and headquartered in Marin County, California, Joyent serves customers around the globe in multiple languages and time zones.
“Force10 understands what we require to deliver our powerful cloud infrastructure. Their Ethernet infrastructure provides the hooks (and vision) for effective virtualization and network automation. As a result, we work very well together to provide Joyent's customers with a flexible, secure, highly scalable, open, loving cloud. “
Bryan Bogensberger
Vice President, Marketing,
Joyent, Inc.
Service Providers
DE-CIX, is neutral and independent Internet Exchange carrier in Frankfurt/Germany. Founded in 1995, DE-CIX established an environment for the bilateral settlement-free exchange of Internet traffic. Today DE-CIX has over 190 customers from 20+ nations using peering to lower costs and to increase IP performance. This makes DE-CIX the leading Internet Exchange for Central and Eastern Europe.
“Our customers are experiencing increasingly high volumes of traffic and will need the capacity 10 Gigabit Ethernet provides to guarantee service on their networks. After more than a year of rigorous testing, we chose Force10, which provides a reliable, high density solution with a long lifespan, enabling us to deliver 10 Gig services to our customers without continual network upgrades.”
Harald Summa
Chief Executive Officer, DE-CIX
Epsilon is a London based telecommunications company with an extensive international network. We connect more than 175 Operators with a Telephony wholesale or retail business via our extensive network in over 56 Carrier neutral facilities in 14 countries.
“Force10 products will be at the heart of our expanded Ethernet service capability. The advanced features of the Traverse platform’s NGE (next-generation Ethernet) cards, coupled with other equipment from the product portfolio, allow for a truly flexible Ethernet service offering.”
George Szlosarek
Network Operations Manager,
Epsilon
NTT Com is a wholly owned subsidiary of NTT, one of the world's largest global telecommunications companies. The company's world-class Tier 1 Internet backbone and secure closed networks connect more than 200 countries.
"We are experiencing strong demand from customers throughout Japan for reliable, high-speed data leased lines. The Traverse platform enables us to leverage our existing network to provide carrier-class Ethernet leased line services."
Mr. Masafumi Iida
Senior Manager, NTT Com
Columbus Networks Inc. is a Barbados-based International Business Corporation that holds investments in retail broadband telecommunication providers based in the Bahamas, Jamaica and Trinidad, and wholesale broadband networks throughout 21 countries in the greater Caribbean and Central American region.
“We needed to offer high-capacity transport services across our backbone to other service providers in the region along with a full suite of services in our metro access networks. Force10 stood out as the vendor with the most cohesive solution for delivering the combination of advanced Ethernet and TDM metro access services while also offering the versatility to provide high-capacity transport within either SONET or SDH environments.”
Steve Richard
Chief Technical Officer,
Columbus Networks.
Consolidated Communications Holdings, Inc., is a family of companies providing advanced voice, data, and video services to both business and residential customers. Serving markets in Illinois and Texas , Consolidated Communications operates the 15th largest independent local telephone company in the nation.
“We considered a variety of platforms for increasing our transport capacity in order to support the triple play, and ultimately chose the Traverse 2000 platform for its scalability, comparatively low cost, and support for converged Ethernet and next generation SONET functionality. Force10 provided a carrier-class solution that supported our existing services, while enabling us to provide next-generation video and beyond.”
Tom White
Vice President of Engineering,
Consolidated Communications.
Access/On Multimedia was formed in 1994 to provide advanced communication services to the smaller cities and towns of central North Carolina . Thirteen local exchange carriers joined forces to build a 1200-mile fiber network and connected it with networks in other states. Today Access/On is part of a large network delivering advanced communications services.
“Among the vendors we evaluated, only Force10 offered the right combination of service flexibility, optical interconnect capabilities, and carrier-grade Ethernet services that we needed to enable the new services our members wanted. In addition, we were very impressed by the highly positive experience that several of our members and partners have experienced with Force10 equipment and service.”
Jeff Adams
General Manager,
Access/On Multimedia.
VTel is the largest independent telephone company in Vermont , and one of the largest family-owned telephone companies in America . Our traditional service area covers 14 towns and villages in Southern Vermont , serving approximately 50,000 Vermonters, with 21,000 telephone lines.
“Upgrading with Force10’s solutions increases the bandwidth capacity of our optical backbone four-fold, enabling us to continue to provide our residential and business customers with affordable broadband data services such as DSL, and paving the way for VTel to offer emerging high-speed services such as Ethernet in the future.”
Norm Koch
VP of Network Operations,
Vermont Telephone.
Iowa Network Services is privately owned by a group of 127 Independent Telephone Companies that serve 500,000 rural Iowans. Core network transport, broadcast video and Internet service via netINS are among the products offered by Iowa Network Services to telephone companies across the state of Iowa and to enterprise customers nationwide.
“INS deployed Force10’s next-generation transport system to provide Ethernet over SONET and allow us to provide broadcast and Video on Demand, Internet services and other IP services to a majority of the independent companies in Iowa that are rapidly moving to Ethernet as their connection of choice.”
Bob Sherlock
Vice President of Engineering, INS.
RCN Business Solutions is a leading supplier of high-capacity transport, internet, bulk video, and voice services and is the smart telecommunications alternative for large and medium-sized businesses. Maintaining a network independent of incumbent providers in Boston , New York , Eastern PA , Chicago , and Washington , DC , RCN Business Solutions deploys custom solutions to companies in the finance, hospitality, media, government, health care and education industries.
“Force10’s Traverse enables us to offer new, enhanced Carrier Ethernet services that give us a competitive edge in serving business customers. With the Force10 solution, we can fully leverage our extensive optical backbone network to provide data services that are customized for our client’s particular needs, and offer the levels of reliability and end-to-end QoS that they demand.”
Felipe Alvarez
President,
RCN Business Solutions.
Cox Communications, a Fortune 500 company, is a multi-service broadband communications and entertainment company with more than 6 million total residential and commercial customers. Cox offers an array of advanced digital video, high-speed Internet and telephony services over its own nationwide IP network.
"Force10 provides a range of cost-effective transport solutions from DS1 to OC-192 including broadband Ethernet and Video on Demand delivery on a single converged transport infrastructure. These solutions allow us to deliver multiple services on the same platform while integrating with our 'Ring-in-Ring' architecture, which provides our customers with reliable, cost-effective solutions."
Darryl Ladd
Director of Network Architecture,
Cox Communications.
tel(x) is an internationally recognized, premier operator of telecom "meet-me" network interconnection facilities. The tel(x) facilities in New York City and Atlanta are considered two of the most densely populated "core" interconnect sites in North America.
“The Traverse switch brings our carrier customers a service that we believe is unique to telx; the ability to interconnect global carriers using SONET, SDH and Ethernet with unparalleled efficiency and without having to deploy their own equipment at our facility.”
Hunter Newby
Chief Strategy Officer,
telx.
Broadview Networks is a network-based integrated communications provider serving approximately 70,000 small and mid-sized businesses throughout the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast regions of the U.S.
“The TraverseEdge provided the best combination of capital and operating costs, plus the ability to extend new Ethernet-based services to our market. Through their products and services, Force10 demonstrated a deep understanding of the needs of regional carriers such as Broadview and their flexibility and responsiveness have been exceptional ”
Ken Shulman
Chief Technology Officer,
Broadview Networks.
A subsidiary of Scottish and Southern Energy’s Telecom Business Unit (SSE Telecom), Neos operates a 7,500km UK-wide telecoms network, including 1,100km of underground and overhead fibre optic cable installed on SSE's electricity network. Neos delivered the UK’s first National Ethernet Service.
“The convergence of Ethernet and SDH into the same box gives us a cost effective way of extending the coverage of our network. We now only need to deploy one piece of equipment to give a full service-offering from a new site.”
Bob Hase
Strategic Development Manager,
Neos Networks.
Dacom is Korea's second largest communications service provider that is devoted to the development of information and communication industry of the country since it was founded in 1982. Dacom has been at the forefront of the industry by providing quality dedicated line services to businesses, Chollian, the country's first information and communications service, and the best Internet connection to businesses in the Asia Pacific region.
“We are very excited about deploying the Force10 Traverse solution in partnership with CommVerge Solutions Korea. The Force10 platform will allow us to provision a new network related to our Customer Leased Line Network, with particular emphasis on network resiliency.”
Mr. Young II Ko
Director,
Government Account Team of Dacom
Tricom , S.A. is a full-service communications services provider in the Dominican Republic . Tricom offers local, long distance, mobile, cable television and broadband data transmission and Internet services.
“We evaluated a variety of technologies and platforms for upgrading our existing optical network to a high-performance metro core that is optimized for next generation packet services like Ethernet. "We were most impressed with the ability of Force10's Traverse platform to provide any combination of scalable optical transport, wideband DCS, Gigabit Ethernet switching, and SONET-to-SDH gateway flexibility from a single shelf, and determined it was clearly the best fit for our needs.”
Valeriano Valerio
Senior Vice President of Engineering and Operations,
Tricom
Research / Government
CERN, the world’s largest particle physics laboratory, has deployed the Force10 TeraScale E-Series in Europe's largest 10 Gigabit Ethernet network. CERN is also leveraging the E-Series to deploy the world's first production intercontinental 10 Gigabit Ethernet links to connect its Geneva-based campus with more than 500 research institutions worldwide.
“We determined that Force10 was best equipped to provide the density, scalability and, more importantly, the resiliency that we require to guarantee predictable network performance for our scientists and the universities to which we are connected worldwide.”
David Foster
Networking Group Leader, CERN
NOAA The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) is the world's largest archive of weather data and has deployed the TeraScale E-Series to add an unprecedented level of scalability to its high performance data center.
“By replacing our existing infrastructure with the Force10 E-Series, we know we have a resilient network that can take us through the transition to 100 Gigabit Ethernet”
Preston Carter
Senior Network Engineer, National Climatic Data Center
The Human Genome Sequencing Center (HGSC) at Baylor College of Medicine is one of three large scale genome sequencing centers in the U.S. The HGSC is on the cutting edge of medical research and human genome mapping and uses the TeraScale E1200 to connect all storage facilities and research clusters.
“Every day our scientists are processing massive amounts of data to support their research. The TeraScale E-Series delivers the scalability and resiliency we need to support further scientific research, ensuring that the network does not limit the scope of scientific research.”
David Parker
Manager of Systems, HGSC
Industry Analysts
“[Force10] has carved out a position at the high end of the market. Its leading market performance and density, combined with a high availability platform design, is particularly attractive in large data centers and high-performance computing environments where it can build fully non-blocking, scalablecore networks for a fraction of the cost of the other vendors.”
Mark Fabbi
Gartner
“The Force10 TeraScale E-Series, by combining high Gigabit and 10 Gigabit densities with greater resiliency, drives down both capital and operating expenses by reducing the number of switching and routing elements required to build and run a network.”
Mark Bieberich
Yankee Group
“We have not tested any other system that approaches the scalability and performance of the E1200.”
Kevin Tolly
President, Tolly Group
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