• Equinix Launches 10 Gigabit Ethernet Exchange with Force10 TeraScale E-Series
• Force10 Powers 23 of the World's Fastest Supercomputers
• Hostech Global Increases Network Capacity and Performance with Force10 Networks
• Stealth Communications Deploys Force10 to Interconnect 200 Voice and Data Providers
• Upcoming Events

Equinix Launches 10 Gigabit Ethernet Exchange with Force10 TeraScale E-Series

Equinix, the leading provider of network-neutral data centers and Internet exchange services, has deployed the industry-leading TeraScale E-Series switch/routers in a 10 Gigabit Ethernet upgrade to its Washington, D.C. area Internet Business Exchange (IBX) center, with planned deployments to IBX centers in the New York, Silicon Valley and Chicago areas by the end of 2005.

"Many of our customers are experiencing increasingly high volumes of traffic on their networks and will need the capacity 10 Gigabit Ethernet provides to guarantee service on their own networks," said Jay Adelson, chief technology officer of Equinix. "After more than a year of rigorous testing, we chose Force10, which provides a reliable, high density solution with a long lifespan, enabling us to deliver 10 Gig services to our customers without continual network upgrades."

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Hostech Global Increases Network Capacity and Performance with Force10 Networks

"To expand capacity and scalability at the core of its network, Hostech Global, Korea's largest server hosting provider, has deployed the Force10 TeraScale E-Series at the core of its network." Hostech is leveraging the high density and resiliency of the TeraScale E-Series to connect 10,000 servers and deliver services to more than 2,500 customers.

"Our customers rely on our network to store their business critical applications and data and require consistent, reliable access to those applications," said Dong-Geun Lim, senior manager of systems operations at Hostech Global. "The Force10 switch/routers bring us the extremely high density that allows us to connect 10,000 servers without overly complicating our network and the resiliency we need to guarantee superior service delivery."

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Force10 Powers 23 of the World's Fastest Supercomputers

Force10 Networks today announced that the TeraScale E-Series powers seven of the top 50 fastest supercomputers in the world, including one in the top five, according to a list published last Wednesday by Top500.org that ranks the performance of the world's fastest computers. In all, 23 of the top 500 fastest supercomputers in the world rely on the Force10 TeraScale E-Series family of switch/routers.

Most notably, the Force10 TeraScale E-Series anchors the MareNostrum cluster installed at the Barcelona Supercomputer Center in Spain, delivering the reliability and predictable performance the national supercomputing center needs to conduct scientific research on medicine, climate change, contagious diseases and materials science. Ranked fifth on the updated list, the MareNostrum cluster is Europe's fastest supercomputer with a capacity of 27.91 Teraflops per second. Over the next four years, the Spanish government will invest €70 million (approximately $89 million) to continue building out the supercomputing center.

The Top500 project was started in 1993 to provide a reliable basis for tracking and detecting trends in high performance computing. Supercomputers are ranked twice a year based on performance. The latest list is available at www.top500.org.

See http://www.force10networks.com/news/
pressreleases/2005/pr-2005-06-27.asp for full story.

Stealth Communications Deploys Force10 to Interconnect 200 Voice and Data Providers

Stealth Communications has deployed the Force10 E-Series in its new Big Apple Peering Exchange (Big APE), an IPv4 peering fabric that is carrying traffic from eircom, Net2Phone, PPL Telecom, Progress Telecom and WV Fiber. The Force10 E300 delivers the Gigabit and 10 Gigabit Ethernet density and resiliency that enables Stealth to deliver cost-effective services in one of the country's largest peering exchanges.

"The new exchange leverages the industry's leading technology to deliver cost-effective peering services," said Shrihari Pandit, CEO and founder of Stealth Communications. "The Force10 E-Series delivers the superior performance and resiliency we need to build a scalable network that can reliably interconnect more than 200 providers at telx New York, transforming the Big APE into one of the largest peering exchanges in the United States."

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pressreleases/2005/pr-2005-06-20.asp for complete text.

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Boulder Laboratories/NIST/NOAA
August 1, 2005
Boulder, CO
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Peterson Air Force Base/NORTHCOM
August 2, 2005
Colorado Springs, CO
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Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton
September 1, 2005
Camp Pendleton, San Diego, CA
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September 9-13, 2005
Amsterdam, Holland
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