News and Events

2008

August 7, 2008

FORCE10 NETWORKS SENIOR RESEARCH SCIENTIST AND IEEE TASK FORCE CHAIR ADVOCATES INDUSTRY ROLE IN MOVE TO ECO-EFFICIENT NETWORKS

Achieving true eco-efficiency across the network requires an industry-wide effort to define metrics and develop standards necessary to efficiently plan for new, cost-effective bandwidth and power and cooling requirements, said Force10 Networks Senior Research Scientist and Chair of the IEEE P802.3ba task force John D’Ambrosia at the Next Generation Data Center conference.   Read more >

 

June 24, 2008

FORCE10 NETWORKS SWITCH/ROUTERS ANCHOR THE WORLD’S MOST POWERFUL SUPERCOMPUTER AND MORE THAN 30 PERCENT OF THE
FASTEST 40

Force10 Networks®, the pioneer in building and securing reliable networks, today announced that its Reliable Networking product portfolio is integral to more than 30 percent of the top 40 most powerful supercomputers in the world, including the most powerful, according to the most recent Top500.org list.   Read more >

 

June 17, 2008

FORCE10 NETWORKS C300 RESILIENT SWITCH NAMED NETWORKING PRODUCT OF THE YEAR BY TECHWORLD

Force10 Networks®, the pioneer in building and securing reliable networks, today announced that Techworld named the C300 resilient switch the Networking Product of the Year based on its unique scalability, reliability and network control features.   Read more >

 

June 10, 2008

UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN DEPLOYS FORCE10 NETWORKS IN TIER ONE TERMINATION POINT FOR CERN’S LARGE HADRON COLLIDER

Force10 Networks®, the pioneer in building and securing reliable networks, today announced that the Danish Centre for Scientific Computing at the University of Copenhagen (DCSC/KU) has deployed the TeraScale E-Series® family of switch/routers and the S-Series family of access switches at the foundation of Denmark’s most powerful research supercomputer.   Read more >

 

June 3, 2008

FORCE10 NETWORKS’ KAREN BLASING NAMED CFO OF THE YEAR

Force10 Networks®, the pioneer in building and securing reliable networks, today announced that Chief Financial Officer Karen Blasing was named Bay Area CFO of the Year for a venture-backed company.   Read more >

 

May 29, 2008

FORCE10 NETWORKS C300 RESILIENT SWITCH RECEIVES NETWORK PRODUCTS GUIDE 2008 PRODUCT INNOVATION AWARD

Force10 Networks®, the pioneer in building and securing reliable networks, today announced that Network Products Guide, a Silicon Valley Communications publication and leader on technologies and solutions, has named the C300 resilient switch a winner of the 2008 Product Innovation Award for the Ethernet switch category.   Read more >

 

May 27, 2008

FORCE10 NETWORKS AWARDED PATENT FOR INNOVATIONS IN COST-EFFECTIVE DESIGN OF HIGH PERFORMANCE BACKPLANES

Force10 Networks®, the pioneer in building and securing reliable networks, today announced that it has received a patent for innovations in design that reduce the complexity and cost of high performance backplanes for switches and routers targeted at the midsized data center and enterprise markets.   Read more >

 

May 20, 2008

ETSY POWERS GROWING ONLINE MARKETPLACE FOR HANDMADE GOODS WITH FORCE10 NETWORKS SWITCH/ROUTERS

Force10 Networks®, the pioneer in building and securing reliable networks, today announced that Etsy, Inc. has deployed the TeraScale E-Series® family of switch/routers and the S-Series family of access switches to increase the performance and reliability of its online marketplace for handmade arts and crafts.   Read more >

 

May 8, 2008

FORCE10 NETWORKS’ KAREN BLASING NAMED FINALIST FOR CFO OF
THE YEAR

Force10 Networks®, the pioneer in building and securing reliable networks, today announced that Chief Financial Officer Karen Blasing was selected as a finalist for Bay Area CFO of the Year for a venture-backed company.    Read more >

 

May 6, 2008

NEXT GENERATION NETWORK SOLUTIONS DEPLOYS FORCE10 NETWORKS TO DELIVER DATA CENTER HOSTING SERVICES THROUGHOUT BAHRAIN

Force10 Networks®, the pioneer in building and securing reliable networks, today announced that Next Generation Network Solutions (NGNS), a subsidiary of Rawabi Telecom & Software (RTS), has deployed the TeraScale E-Series® family of switch/routers and the S-Series family of access switches to ensure the reliable performance of its recently installed network in the Kingdom of Bahrain.    Read more >

 

April 30, 2008

FORCE10 NETWORKS VICE PRESIDENT EXPLORES ECO-EFFICIENCY AS A HOLISTIC APPROACH FOR ALIGNING BUSINESS GOALS WITH POWER AND COOLING DEMANDS

The impact of rising costs associated with data center power and cooling are not just confined to IT and facilities budgets anymore but are beginning to impact the quality of business on many different levels, including customer satisfaction and the bottom line, said Stephen Garrison, vice president of marketing for Force10 Networks, at Interop 2008. While the notion of being “green” has become a familiar marketing concept, the key to reducing power consumption in the data center is through a holistic, eco-efficient approach, he said.    Read more >

 

April 28, 2008

FORCE10 NETWORKS HIGHLIGHTS INTEROPERABILITY AND EXAMINES BUSINESS REALITIES OF ECO-EFFICIENCY AT INTEROP

Force10 Networks®, the pioneer in building and securing reliable networks, will highlight eco-efficiency as a practice of balancing escalating power consumption against business requirements through a holistic approach to designing the data center at Interop 2008 in Las Vegas from April 28-May 1.    Read more >

 

April 24, 2008

FORCE10 NETWORKS GRANTED PATENT FOR INNOVATIONS IN SYSTEM-LEVEL TRAFFIC PROCESSING PRODUCTIVITY

Force10 Networks®, the pioneer in building and securing reliable networks, announced that it has been awarded a patent for its innovations in system-level packet processing that guarantee predictable performance regardless of traffic conditions.    Read more >

 

April 23, 2008

FORCE10 NETWORKS SUPPORTS IBM’S NEW iDATAPLEX SOLUTION FOR WEB 2.0 COMPUTING

Force10 Networks®, the pioneer in building and securing reliable networks, today announced its enterprise switching technology will support IBM’s (NYSE: IBM) new  iDataPlex, a highly efficient, rack system introduced today. Read more >

 

April 7, 2008

FORCE10 NETWORKS DONATES NOTEBOOK COMPUTERS AND PRINTERS TO HORATIO ALGER SCHOLARSHIP RECIPIENTS

Force10 Networks®, the pioneer in building and securing reliable networks, today announced that it will donate new wireless-enabled laptop computers for the second year in a row to students receiving the Horatio Alger scholarship. Read more >

 

March 25, 2008

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

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. Read more >

 

March 12, 2008

FORCE10 NETWORKS STRENGTHENS SALES TEAM TO FOCUS ON EMERGING MARKET OPPORTUNITIES

Force10 Networks®, the pioneer in building and securing reliable networks, today announced that it has named Frank Kilpatrick vice president of worldwide systems engineering and Andrew Stewart vice president of worldwide channel operations. Read more >

 

March 5, 2008

LARGEST MEDICAL CENTER IN PUERTO RICO DEPLOYS FORCE10 NETWORKS IN CAMPUSWIDE UPGRADE TO INTEGRATE SYSTEMS AND PATIENT RECORDS

Force10 Networks®, the pioneer in building and securing reliable networks, today announced that Hospital Auxilio Mutuo, Puerto Rico’s largest medical center, has deployed the TeraScale E-Series® family of switch/routers and S-Series family of access switches to build a reliable network that provides doctors with always-on access to critical patient and imaging files. Read more >

 

February 27, 2008

FORCE10 NETWORKS INITIATES COMMON CRITERIA EVALUATION ACROSS PRODUCT PORTFOLIO TO MEET GOVERNMENT PROCUREMENT MANDATES

Force10 Networks®, the pioneer in building and securing reliable networks, today announced that it has initiated a Common Criteria for Information Technology Security Evaluation of its Reliable Networking product portfolio.  Read more >

 

February 19, 2008

WEB HOSTING PROVIDER BUILDS TRANSPARENCY INTO VIRTUALIZED DATA CENTER WITH FORCE10 NETWORKS RELIABLE NETWORKING PRODUCT PORTFOLIO

Force10 Networks®, the pioneer in building and securing reliable networks, today announced that Rails Machine has deployed the TeraScale E-Series® family of switch/routers and S-Series family of access switches to provide the network transparency required to monitor and optimize traffic on up to 10 virtual machines per physical server.  Read more >

 

February 12, 2008

LEADING LUXURY JEWELER LEVIEV POWERS DISTRIBUTED NETWORK ENVIRONMENT WITH FORCE10 NETWORKS C300 RESILIENT SWITCH

Force10 Networks®, the pioneer in building and securing reliable networks, today announced that LEVIEV, the most exclusive diamond jewelry brand that offers an extraordinary collection of colored diamonds retailing for up to $20 million in its New York, London and Moscow boutiques, has deployed the C300 resilient switch to build a high performance network that supports its retail stores and dispersed mobile workforce.  Read more >

 

February 05, 2008

LAN SWITCHING STUDY SHOWS ENTERPRISES VIEW RELIABILITY AND SCALABILITY AS MOST IMPORTANT CONSIDERATIONS IN VENDOR SELECTION

Force10 Networks®, the pioneer in building and securing reliable networks, today announced that an independent survey has found that enterprise managers view reliable performance and scalability as the most important qualities they consider when selecting a network vendor.  Read more >

 

January 28, 2008

FORCE10 NETWORKS INTRODUCES UNIFIED OPERATING SYSTEM ACROSS PRODUCT PORTFOLIO TO LOWER TOTAL COST OF OWNING AND OPERATING NETWORKS

Force10 Networks®, the pioneer in building and securing reliable networks, today announced that its modular operating system FTOS™ is now available across its Reliable Networking portfolio of switch/routers, bringing consistency, stability and flexibility to the enterprise network.  Read more >

 

January 28, 2008

FORCE10 NETWORKS EXPANDS C-SERIES FAMILY OF RESILIENT SWITCHES TO BRING DATA CENTER RELIABILITY TO THE ENTERPRISE NETWORK

Force10 Networks®, the pioneer in building and securing reliable networks, today introduced the C150 resilient switch and a high density 8-port line-rate 10 Gigabit Ethernet line card to provide enterprises with the level of reliability traditionally found in high performance data centers.  Read more >

 

January 15, 2008

FORCE10 NETWORKS DELIVERS SCALABILITY TO INCREASE SERVICE DELIVERY OPTIONS FOR ONE OF KOREA’S LEADING CONTENT DELIVERY NETWORKS

Force10 Networks®, the pioneer in building and securing reliable networks, today announced that GS Neotek has increased the reliability and capacity of its content delivery network with the TeraScale E-Series® family of switch/routers.    Read more >

 

January 8, 2008

eHARMONY EXPANDS FORCE10 NETWORKS DEPLOYMENT WITH C-SERIES RESILIENT SWITCH TO SUPPORT BUSINESS CRITICAL OPERATIONS

Force10 Networks®, the pioneer in building and securing reliable networks, today announced that eHarmony has deployed the C300 resilient switch to support business critical operations without impacting the performance of its online relationship service.  With the C300, eHarmony extends an earlier deployment of the Force10 TeraScale E-Series® that powers its 24x7 applications, including its signature relationship service.    Read more >