Press Releases

2008

December 17, 2008

NETWORK HARDWARE RESALE EXPANDS RESELLER RELATIONSHIP WITH FORCE10 NETWORKS TO DISTRIBUTE ITS RELIABLE, RESILIENT NETWORKING PRODUCT PORTFOLIO NATIONWIDE

Network Hardware Resale (NHR), the leading provider of pre-owned and new networking equipment, today announced the expansion of its relationship with Force10 Networks Inc., a pioneer in building and securing high-performance networks.    Read more >

 

November 24, 2008

FORCE10 NETWORKS S-SERIES IMPROVES PERFORMANCE FOR LEADING MANAGED SERVICE PROVIDER

Force10 Networks®, the pioneer in building and securing reliable networks, today announced that Xand Corporation has deployed Force10 S-Series® access switches at their primary data center located at the company’s headquarters in Westchester County, NY.   Read more >

 

November 17, 2008

WORLD’S FASTEST CLUSTER SUPERCOMPUTER POWERED BY FORCE10 TERASCALE E-SERIES SWITCH/ROUTERS

Force10 Networks®, the pioneer in building and securing reliable networks, today announced that its TeraScale E-Series® family of switch/routers is powering the world’s first petaflop supercomputer and world’s fastest cluster supercomputer as listed by Top500.org.   Read more >

 

November 11, 2008

FORCE10 TO DEMONSTRATE LEADERSHIP IN HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING AND STORAGE ENVIRONMENTS AT SUPERCOMPUTING 2008

Reinforcing its expertise in and commitment to the high performance computing market, Force10 Networks® is participating in a forum highlighting 10 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) in high performance computing and storage environments, at the Supercomputing Conference (SC08), taking place November 15-21 in Austin.     Read more >

 

November 11, 2008

TURIN NETWORKS FORMS NEW TECHNOLOGY ALLIANCE PROGRAM

Turin Networks, Inc., today announced that the company has formed a new interoperability-based Technology Alliance Program.      Read more >

 

November 11, 2008

TURIN NETWORKS WELCOMES FOUNDING MEMBERS OF NEW TECHNOLOGY ALLIANCE PROGRAM

Turin Networks, Inc., today announced the first partners participating in the company’s new Technology Alliance Program.     Read more >

 

November 4, 2008

FORCE10 NETWORKS NAMES JAMES HANLEY CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
Hanley, Previously Force10’s Senior Vice President of Sales, to Focus on Company’s Next Growth Phase

Force10 Networks®, the pioneer in building and securing reliable networks, today announced that James Hanley has been named chief executive officer, succeeding Marc Randall, who announced his retirement from the company.     Read more >

 

November 3, 2008

FORCE10 ADDRESSES MARKET NEED FOR SUPERIOR NETWORK AGILITY, FLEXIBILITY AND EFFICIENCY WITH VIRTUALVIEW OPTIMIZATION TOOLS

Force10 Networks®, the pioneer in building and securing reliable networks, today introduced its VirtualView™ traffic management and provisioning technology.   Read more >

 

October 27, 2008

FORCE10 NETWORKS HOSTS DATA CENTER VIRTUALIZATION WEBINAR

Force10 Networks®, the pioneer in building and securing reliable networks, will discuss trends in data center virtualization during a Webinar, scheduled for Wednesday, October 29 at 11 a.m. PDT.   Read more >

 

October 20, 2008

LEADING INDIAN PAINT COMPANY DEPLOYS FORCE10 TO POWER NEXT-GENERATION DATA CENTER

Force10 Networks®, the pioneer in building and securing reliable networks, today announced that Asian Paints has deployed the C-Series® resilient switch at its data center in Mumbai, India.    Read more >

 

October 14, 2008

GERMAN INTERNET EXCHANGE DEPLOYS FORCE10 NETWORKS C-SERIES RESILIENT SWITCH TO DELIVER COST-EFFECTIVE 10 GIGABIT ETHERNET SERVICES

Force10 Networks®, the pioneer in building and securing reliable networks, today announced that ECIX, a leading Internet exchange in Germany run by the Peering GmbH, has deployed the C-Series resilient switch to cost effectively deliver 10 Gigabit Ethernet peering services to its enterprise and service provider customers in Düsseldorf, Berlin and Hamburg.    Read more >

 

September 30, 2008

TRICON GEOPHYSICS SELECTS FORCE10 NETWORKS TO POWER ITS NETWORK INFRASTRUCTURE UPGRADE

Force10 Networks®, the pioneer in building and securing reliable networks, today announced that Tricon Geophysics Inc. has deployed Force10’s C300 resilient switches and S50 access switches at their data centers in Houston and Denver.   Read more >

 

September 23, 2008

FORCE10 NETWORKS PARTNERS WITH T-PLATFORMS TO BUILD RUSSIA’S LARGEST SUPERCOMPUTER AT MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY

Force10 Networks®, the pioneer in building and securing reliable networks, today announced that it has aligned with its 10 Gigabit Premier partner T-Platforms to build the most powerful supercomputer in Russia at Moscow State University (MSU).    Read more >

 

September 16, 2008

FORCE10 NETWORKS JOINS VMWARE’S ALLIANCE AFFILIATE PROGRAM, OFFERING CONSOLIDATED AND VIRTUALIZED DATA CENTERS

Force10 Networks®, the pioneer in building and securing reliable networks, today announced the company is participating in the VMware Alliance Affiliate Initiative, a strategic program that promotes joint solutions from virtualization leader VMware and qualified partners.    Read more >

 

September 16, 2008

TURIN NETWORKS LAUNCHES THE INDUSTRY'S FIRST CARRIER-GRADE CONVERGED SERVICES ACCESS GATEWAY

Turin Networks, Inc., a leading global provider of innovative Carrier Ethernet, Converged Services and Wireless Backhaul solutions for wireline and wireless network operators, today announced a new feature release that positions the company's widely deployed Adit® 600 platform as the industry's first carrier-grade Converged Services Access Gateway.   Read more >

 

September 15, 2008

FORCE10 NETWORKS SUPPORTS EMERGING REQUIREMENTS IN NETWORK MANAGEMENT, POWER AND SECURITY THROUGH NEW SOFTWARE ENHANCEMENTS

Force10 Networks®, the pioneer in building and securing reliable networks, today announced a new set of management, power and security features to the Force10 operating system, FTOS, which help customers transition to converged networks.   Read more >

 

September 15, 2008

FORCE10 DEBATES UNIFIED FABRIC IN DATA CENTER NETWORKS AND HIGHLIGHTS LATEST SOFTWARE ENHANCEMENTS AND INTEROPERABILITY AT INTEROP NEW YORK

Force10 Networks®, the pioneer in building and securing reliable networks, is participating in a debate discussing various issues associated with data center network unification at Interop 2008, taking place in New York September 15-19.   Read more >

 

September 3, 2008

FORCE10 NETWORKS EXPANDS ITS S-SERIES FAMILY OF ACCESS SWITCHES TO EMPOWER CUSTOMERS TO OPTIMIZE THEIR NETWORKS

Force10 Networks®, the pioneer in building and securing reliable networks, today expanded its S-Series family of access switches to provide customers with the flexibility they require to build and optimize their networks.   Read more >

 

August 26, 2008

TELX LAUNCHES 10 GIGABIT ETHERNET PEERING SERVICES POWERED BY FORCE10 NETWORKS

Force10 Networks®, the pioneer in building and securing reliable networks, today announced that Telx, the Interconnection Company, has deployed the Force10 C300 resilient switch in its Phoenix Telx Internet Exchange (TIE) platform.   Read more >

 

August 18, 2008

FORCE10 NETWORKS INCREASES DEPLOYMENT FLEXIBILITY AND INVESTMENT PROTECTION OF C-SERIES SWITCHES WITH FLEXMEDIA LINE CARD

Force10 Networks®, the pioneer in building and securing reliable networks, today announced that it has increased the deployment flexibility of the C-Series family of resilient switches with the new FlexMedia^TM line card that combines copper and fiber Gigabit Ethernet interfaces with 10 Gigabit Ethernet to help customers optimize their networks to meet unique traffic and application needs.   Read more >

 

August 12, 2008

FORCE10 NETWORKS C-SERIES SWITCHES TO SUPPORT IBM SYSTEM CLUSTER 1350 SOLUTIONS

Force10 Networks®, the pioneer in building and securing reliable networks, today announced that its C-Series family of resilient switches is now integrated with the IBM System Cluster 1350 solutions, which includes the new System x iDataPlex.   Read more >

 

August 12, 2008

TURIN NETWORKS' TRAVERSE® AND TRAVERSEEDGE™ PRODUCTS SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETE GOVERNMENT JOINT INTEROPERABILITY TESTING

Turin Networks, Inc., a leading global provider of innovative Carrier Ethernet, Converged Services and Wireless Backhaul solutions for wireline and wireless network operators and private networks, today announced that they have successfully completed rigorous interoperability testing with the United States Defense Information Systems Agency's (DISA) Joint Interoperability Test Command (JITC) at Indian Head, Maryland on its Traverse Multiservice Transport Switch, TraverseEdge 100, and TraverseEdge 206 products.   Read more >

 

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 11, 2008

GCI EXPANDS DEPLOYMENT OF TURIN’S TRAVERSE® PLATFORM TO LAUNCH NEW BUSINESS ETHERNET SERVICES

Turin Networks, Inc., a leading global provider of innovative Wireless Backhaul, Carrier Ethernet and Converged Services solutions for wireline and wireless network operators, today announced that GCI, Alaska's largest telecommunications provider, has deployed the Traverse® Multiservice Transport Switch to launch flexible new business Ethernet service offerings for its customers.   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 5, 2008

TURIN NETWORKS ANNOUNCES NEW ETHERNET OVER COPPER CAPABILITIES ON THE COMPANY’S WIDELY–DEPLOYED TRAVERSE® PLATFORM

Turin Networks, Inc., a leading global provider of innovative Wireless Backhaul, Carrier Ethernet and Converged Services solutions for wireline and wireless network operators, today announced new capabilities on the company's widely-deployed Traverse® Multiservice Transport Switch that enable the product to address the large and rapidly growing market for delivering IP and Ethernet services over copper PDH (Plesiochronous Digital Hierarchy - DS1, DS3, E1 and E3) access networks.    Read more >

 

June 4, 2008

TURIN NETWORKS’ TRAVERSE® 10 GIGABIT ETHERNET SWITCHING AND TRANSPORT MODULES RECEIVE KEY MEF CERTIFICATIONS

Turin Networks, Inc., a leading global provider of innovative Wireless Backhaul, Carrier Ethernet and Converged Services solutions for wireline and wireless network operators, today announced that the 10 Gigabit Ethernet switching and transport modules for the company’s flagship Traverse® Multiservice Transport Switch have attained essential Carrier Ethernet certifications from the Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF).    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 >

 

April 1, 2008

TURIN NETWORKS ENHANCES WIRELESS BACKHAUL BANDWIDTH OPTIMIZATION PLATFORM WITH NEW PSEUDOWIRE CAPABILITIES

Turin Networks, Inc., a leading global provider of innovative, Wireless Backhaul, Converged Services and Carrier Ethernet solutions for wireline and wireless network operators, today announced the delivery of new pseudowire capabilities on the company's widely deployed MASTERseriesT Wireless Backhaul optimization platform.  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 11, 2008

TURIN NETWORKS COMPLETES ACQUISITION OF CARRIER ACCESS

Turin Networks, Inc. today announced that it has successfully completed the acquisition of Carrier Access Corp., a leading provider of wireless backhaul optimization and converged access solutions.  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 >