Press Releases

2002

November 12, 2002

FORCE10 NETWORKS LANDS THIRD TERAGRID CUSTOMER:
CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

Force10 Networks, Inc., the leading developer of high performance Ethernet systems, today announced that the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) of Pasadena, CA, is using the Force10 E-Series™, the most scalable and highest performing Ethernet switch/routers in the industry, in its grid computing network. Read more >

 

October 31, 2002

FORCE10 NETWORKS IS THE ETHERNET SWITCH/ROUTER OF CHOICE FOR SC2002 BANDWIDTH CHALLENGERS

Force10 Networks Inc., the leader in high performance Ethernet systems, announced today that its E-Series chassis with line-rate 10-Gigabit Ethernet performance has been chosen by the majority of Bandwidth Challenge participants to power their entries into this year’s bandwidth contest at SC2002. Read more >

 

October 29, 2002

FORCE10 NETWORKS E-SERIES ALONG WITH IXIA'S 10 GIGABIT ETHERNET ANALYSIS PLATFORM SELECTED BY UTSTARCOM (CHINA) LTD. TO DEFINE THE LIMITS OF HIGH PERFORMANCE NETWORKING

Force10 Networks Inc., the leading developer of high performance Ethernet systems, and Ixia jointly announced today that UTStarcom has chosen their equipment to demonstrate high-performance switching in their booth at the PT/Expo, Beijing, China, October 29th through November 2nd. Ixia, (Nasdaq: XXIA), a leading provider of high-speed, multiport network performance analysis systems, is providing state-of-the-art testing platforms to validate performance of Force10’s new E-Series switches, now being OEM’d by UTStarcom. Ixia’s sophisticated test bed has been selected by Force10 to accurately verify line rate performance across its 10 Gigabit Ethernet and Gigabit Ethernet platform. Read more >

 

September 5, 2002

FORCE10 NETWORKS CHOOSES IXIA TO VALIDATE GIGABIT AND 10 GIGABIT ETHERNET LINE RATE PERFORMANCE OF ITS NEW E-SERIES SWITCHES

Force10 Networks Inc., the leading developer of high performance Ethernet systems, announced today that it chose Ixia, (Nasdaq: XXIA), a leading provider of high-speed, multiport network performance analysis systems, to provide state-of-the-art testing platforms to validate performance of its new E1200 Series switches. Ixia’s sophisticated test bed made it possible for Force10 to accurately verify line rate performance across a fully meshed configuration of 28 ports of 10 Gigabit Ethernet as well as 336 ports of Gigabit Ethernet in a single E1200. Read more >

 

September 3, 2002

FORCE10 NETWORKS SHIPS INDUSTRY'S MOST SCALABLE AND HIGHEST PERFORMANCE ETHERNET SWITCH/ROUTER

Force10 Networks, Inc., the leading developer of high performance Ethernet systems, today announced the Force10 E-Series™, the most scalable and highest performing Ethernet switch/routers in the industry. The E-Series provides unmatched scalability, line-rate performance, and full L2 switching and L3 routing functionality for high-performance Ethernet applications. The E-Series has been selected by the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) and the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) (both part of the National Science Foundation’s TeraGrid Project), Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and the London Internet Exchange (LINX). Read more >

 

September 3, 2002

TOLLY GROUP AND IXIA VERIFY LINE-RATE PERFORMANCE OF 10 GIGABIT ETHERNET ON THE FORCE10 E1200 SWITCH/ROUTER

Force10 Networks, Inc., the leading developer of high performance Ethernet systems, today announced that its E1200, which was introduced today as part of the Force10 E-Series™, has been tested by the independent laboratory The Tolly Group (Manasquan, NJ) using test equipment supplied by Ixia Communications. The tests confirmed that the E1200 delivers non-blocking, line-rate forwarding across all 28 ports of 10G Ethernet with extended access control lists (ACLs) applied when tested with large frame sizes greater than 512 bytes. Read more >

 

January 22, 2002

TURIN NETWORKS UNVEILS REVOLUTIONARY OPTICAL EDGE PLATFORM FOR DELIVERY OF CARRIER-GRADE ETHERNET AND SONET SERVICES

Turin Networks, Inc., today announced the Traverse® Multiservice Optical Transport Platform-a powerful, unified Ethernet + SONET solution for service providers that addresses the challenges associated with delivering high-growth, differentiated packet services over today's resilient SONET-based infrastructure. Read more >