Press Releases

2010

The Energy Building Selects Force10 Networks to Power its Network Infrastructure

New Indonesian office building deploys Force10 Ethernet switch/router solutions to deliver network services to tenants

SAN JOSE, Calif., March 30, 2010 – Force10 Networks, Inc., the global technology leader that data center, service provider and enterprise customers rely on when the network is their business, today announced that The Energy, a 43-story office building in Jakarta, Indonesia, has selected Force10 TeraScale™ core switch/routers and S-Series™ access switches to power the building’s new network infrastructure. The Energy Building provides high speed Internet access, IP telephony and an intelligent building and facilities management system to the building’s tenants over one IP backbone. Deploying the Force10 E1200 core/switch routers and S50 access switches satisfied a broad range of needs that the building’s IT team required, focused primarily around performance, density and ease of implementation.

“While our IT group operates from a single data center, we provide data and network services to a variety of businesses with high expectations and a broad range of requirements,” says Yuyun Priandy, IT advisor, The Energy. “During our evaluation, it quickly became apparent that Force10 is focused on delivering cost-effective, high performance data center solutions that can be easily deployed and managed in heterogeneous network environments like ours.”

Providing a Highly Dense 10 Gigabit Ethernet Network Core
The IT team at The Energy building deployed the E1200 and the S50 due to their optimum price/performance ratio as well as their 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10 GbE) port density that enables seamless growth while ensuring investment protection and lower power and cooling costs. As more services were provided to the growing number of tenants in the building, the IT group believed that the E1200 will continue to satisfy their needs because of the core switch/routers’ ability to scale up to 1,260 GbE and 224 10 GbE ports per chassis with access control lists (ACLs) on all ports. With support for 140 line-rate 10 GbE SFP+ ports per chassis, the E-Series is the only switch/router with 100 Gbps of useable data capacity per slot in the industry today. 

Answering the Tenant Need for Reliable Performance
In addition to capacity, Force10 switch/router solutions also provided a level of reliability and redundancy not previously experienced by the IT team at The Energy. For example, the E1200 delivers an industry-leading total throughput of more than two billion packets per second across a switching fabric capacity of 3.5 Tbps or 250 Gbps full duplex per slot. To ensure reliable performance, route performance modules use distributed control plane processing on three CPUs and provide 1+1 control plane redundancy with hitless forwarding. Other redundant features include:

• Redundant switch fabric modules that provide graceful and deterministic failure recovery
• High availability hardware and software architecture with OIR (hot swap) of all components
• Patented passive copper backplane

“Force10 has designed highly resilient and reliable solutions to meet the requirements of networking environments that possess every level of complexity and bandwidth and management demand,” says Steve Garrison, vice president of marketing, Force10. “To satisfy differing levels of services among its tenants, The Energy will leverage the non-blocking, line-rate throughput, scalability and redundancy of the E-Series E1200 and S-Series to give their IT staff the tools needed to create greater data center efficiency and improved total cost of ownership.”

About Force10 Networks
Force10 Networks is a global technology leader that data center, service provider and enterprise customers rely on when the network is their business. The company’s high performance Ethernet switching and routing solutions virtualize and automate Ethernet networks to deliver new and distinct economic advantages by increasing network availability, agility and efficiency while reducing power and cooling costs. Force10 provides 24x7 service and support capabilities to its global customer base in more than 60 countries worldwide. For more information on Force10 Networks, please visit www.force10networks.com.

Contact:
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Force10 Networks Inc.
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kkimball@force10networks.com

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