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FTOS: A Modular Switch/Router OS Optimized for Resiliency & Scalability: As Ethernet switch/routers continue to scale in terms of link speed and port density, device resiliency is becoming an indispensable system attribute. For example, high degrees of traffic aggregation mean that even short periods of interrupted operation can disrupt a large number of traffic flows and user/subscribers, potentially violating numerous...; Tags: Force10 Networks Inc., Scalability, Ethernet, Service Level Management, Network Technology, Networking, It Operations, It service Management; White papers 2008-01-01
Best Effort Traffic Drives Service Providers to Simpler, Faster Cores: With best effort traffic dominating, service providers are looking for a cost-effective alternative to service-rich, converged networks. For many, the service-rich core they've built around multiprotocol label switching MPLS is overkill for the bulk of their actual traffic. Consequently, they're turning to lower-cost infrastructure alternatives based on 10 Gigabit Ethernet...; Tags: Force10 Networks Inc., MPLS, Business Services, Network Technology, Ethernet, Networking; White papers 2007-09-01
OC-192c/STM-64c and 10 Gigabit Ethernet WAN PHY: The introduction of 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10 GbE) WAN PHY into the IP/Ethernet networking community has led to confusion over the applicability between 10 GbE WAN PHY and OC-192c/STM-64 interfaces. Both of these interfaces support transmission at 9.6 Gbps, support SONET/SDH framing, and can be connected to SONET/SDH ADM or...; Tags: Force10 Networks Inc., 10-Gigabit Ethernet, SONET/SDH, Ethernet, WANs, Network Technology, Optical Networking, Networking, Fiber Optics, Telecommunications; White papers 2007-08-01
About the 10 Gigabit Ethernet Standard: 10 GbE Physical layer specifications PHY and supported media and reaches, as defined in IEEE 802.3 2005. In Ethernet standards, the different optical and copper media are known as types of physical media-dependent interfaces PMDs. The 10 GbE MAC operates at 10 Gbps at its service interface towards PHY...; Tags: Force10 Networks Inc., 10-Gigabit Ethernet, MAC, Media, Rate Adaptation Mechanism, Ethernet, Network Technology, Advertising & Promotion, Networking, Marketing; White papers 2007-07-01
Next-Generation Switch/Router Diagnostics and Debugging: The goal for a next-generation diagnostics and debugging system for switch/routers is to improve system uptime and availability by preventing the occurrence of certain types of hard errors increasing system MTBF and by improving fault isolation and resolution time reducing MTTR. These improvements can be realized by augmenting traditional reactive...; Tags: Force10 Networks Inc., Diagnostics; White papers 2007-07-01

Server Consolidation and Remote Disaster Recovery: To minimize TCO for server / data center consolidation and optimize disaster recovery and backup operations, enterprises must carefully consider the real costs of using older generations of switches compared to the economies and new functionalities enabled by next generation switch/routers designed for high-performance Ethernet applications.; Tags: Force10 Networks Inc., Disaster Recovery, Server Consolidation, Backups, Ethernet, Data Centers, Roi/Tco, Servers, Data Management, Hardware, Networking, Storage, Finance, Managerial Accounting; White papers 2007-06-01
Evolution of the Spanning Tree Protocol: The Spanning Tree Protocol, that is the basis for the IEEE standard 802.1D was designed to provide "plug-and-play" operation for large Layer 2 networks based on half duplex shared Ethernet, which was the prevalent LAN technology throughout the late 1980s and early 1990s. As Ethernet evolved to become a...; Tags: Force10 Networks Inc., Ethernet, LANs, Network Technology, Networking; White papers 2007-01-01
The High Performance Data Center: The Role of Ethernet in Consolidation and Virtualization: Today's high performance data center needs to generate answers rapidly and requires that the right people can seamlessly access those answers. Answers are dynamic and must be accurate. Additionally, the more accurate answers a business can produce in a given time, the more revenue it can generate. And as the...; Tags: Force10 Networks Inc., Ethernet, Virtualization, Consolidation, High-performance, Leadership, Data Centers, Management, Storage, Hardware, Data Management; White papers 2006-11-01
Building Scalable Digital Media Post Production Networks: The Role of Ethernet: The body of this document provides an overview of impact that digital technology is having on television and cinema production and distribution. It then focuses on some of the key data center and networking technologies that are available to build very high performance, and high availability Ethernet and IP-based distributed...; Tags: Force10 Networks Inc., Network, Production, Ethernet, Network Technology, Data Centers, Networking, Digital Media, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology; White papers 2006-11-01
Building Scalable, High Performance Cluster and Grid Networks: The Role of Ethernet: A Grid computer is a hardware and software system that integrates a collection of distributed system components (e.g., computer systems, storage, etc.) making them appear to the user as a single, large "virtualized" computing system. The basic "single system" concept may be applied to the construction of centralized "cluster" computers...; Tags: Force10 Networks Inc., Ethernet, Network, High-performance, Grid, Distributed System, Computer, Grid Computer, Productivity; White papers 2006-11-01
Describing the Force10 E-Series Architecture: Technology for Reliability and Scalability for High-Performance Ethernet: The Force10 Networks E-Series Architecture delivers breakthrough scalability and capacity - the result of technological advances and innovations in the design of switch fabrics, ASICs, a unique passive backplane, and revolutionary system control plane. Working together, the E-Series architecture and Force10 Operating System FTOS in combination delivers the full potential...; Tags: Force10 Networks Inc., Scalability, High-performance, Force10 Networks E-Series Architecture, Ethernet, Network Technology, Networking; White papers 2006-09-01
Ethernet in the World's Top 500 Supercomputers: The world's most powerful supercomputers continue to get faster. According to top500.org, which maintains the list of the 500 supercomputers with the highest Linpack performance, the aggregate performance of the listed computers has grown 21% in the last seven months and 65% in the last year. This growth rate is...; Tags: Force10 Networks Inc., Ethernet, Supercomputer; White papers 2006-06-01
High Performance Network Security: Security appliances are now a mainstay in the corporate security arsenal. Intrusion Prevention Systems IPS are one of the leading categories of security appliances. Unlike traditional devices like firewalls which examine packet headers alone, an IPS examines the entire packet - called deep packet inspection - and is capable of...; Tags: Intrusion Prevention System, Force10 Networks Inc., Corporate Security, High-performance, Intrusion Prevention, Security; White papers 2006-06-01
10 Gigabit Ethernet Virtual Data Center Architectures: Consolidation of data center resources offers an opportunity for architectural transformation based on the use of scalable, high density, high availability technology solutions, such as high port-density 10 GbE switch/routers, cluster and grid computing, blade or rack servers, and network attached storage. Consolidation also opens doors for virtualization of applications,...; Tags: Force10 Networks Inc., Ethernet, Data Center, 10-Gigabit Ethernet, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management; White papers 2006-05-01
Internet Service Provider Networks: Simplifying POP Architectures: Internet bandwidth consumption is growing at about 100% per year. ISPs will need to continue to expand the capacity of their networks while at the same time responding to a number of competitive pressures, including: controlling costs delivering higher reliability offering an attractive mix...; Tags: Force10 Networks Inc., Network, Broadband, Internet Service Provider, Internet Service, Internet Bandwidth Consumption, Internet, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Broadband Internet, Telecommunications, Network Technology, Networking; White papers 2006-05-01
Internet Exchanges: Moving to 10 Gigabit Ethernet: Internet Exchanges (IX points, or IXs), sometimes also known as Network Access Points NAPs or Metropolitan Area Exchanges MAEs, are facilities designed expressly to simplify interconnection BGP peering and traffic exchange among independent ISPs and other carriers. With the growing popularity broadband Internet access, ISPs are increasingly dependent on...; Tags: Force10 Networks Inc., 10-Gigabit Ethernet, Network, Internet Service Provider, IX, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Internet, Ethernet, Networking; White papers 2006-05-01
The Role of Buffer Management in Controlling the Effects of Congestion over 10 GbE Links: This white paper describes the rationale for providing switch/routers with port buffers that are scaled to the expected delay-bandwidth product DBP. DBP-sized buffers, together with RED congestion avoidance, can be used to optimize the utilization of congested links by TCP applications.; Tags: Force10 Networks Inc., Congestion, Tcp/Ip, Networking; White papers 2006-05-01
Next Generation Terabit Switch/Routers: Transforming Network Architectures: Ethernet networks are being called upon to deliver unprecedented volumes of increasingly diverse traffic. Real-time application traffic (including VoIP, network storage, and cluster/Grid interconnect) is highly sensitive to latency and jitter. Enterprise data applications, such as ERP and CRM, often require high priority to protect them from packet loss. Other...; Tags: Force10 Networks Inc., Network, Network Architecture, Ethernet, Networking, Network Technology; White papers 2006-05-01
The Force10 E-Series Architecture: The Force10 E-Series provides the unmatched scalability, line-rate performance, and full L2 switching and L3 routing functionality essential for today's most demanding network applications. The Force10 E-Series architecture reliably delivers these capabilities to the E-Series at never-before-realized price/performance ratios. To provide this unprecedented combination of power and economy, the E-Series...; Tags: Force10 Networks Inc., Force10 E-Series, ASICs, Semiconductors, Networking, Hardware; White papers 2005-03-01
Force10 aims to blow Ethernet rivals away: Force10 aims to blow Ethernet rivals awayevryone elsewas probably already there, they just wanted to sell the lower speed routers, then after sales slowed release the better ones, just watch, now all the network companies will amazingly release the same thing; Tags: Network technology, NETWORKING, Force10 Networks Inc., Ethernet; Discussion threads 2004-09-15