SEGA Corp Deploys Force10 Networks to Provide Predictable Performance for Online Gaming Environments
SEGA Corporation, the world's largest interactive entertainment company, has deployed the TeraScale E-Series in its gaming data center to provide a reliable, high performance foundation for its online interactive worlds. As the core router in SEGA's online gaming network, the Force10 TeraScale E-Series delivers the robust Layer 3 functionality required to bring hundreds of thousands of gamers in geographically diverse locations together in an online world.
"To provide the online gaming experience our users demand, we needed a robust infrastructure that could both provide performance predictability and scale as new players enter the game," said Yoshimi Agata, network engineer in the Network Operations Department at SEGA. "The E-Series switch/router provided us with the high capacity we needed to simplify our network and allowed us to create the reliability of an offline game in an interactive online world."
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Ethernet Alliance Forms to Promote IEEE 802 Ethernet Technologies
New Industry Alliance Supports the Advancement of All IEEE 802 Ethernet Standards
The Ethernet Alliance, an industry group dedicated to the continued success and expansion of Ethernet technology, recently announced its formation. With a scope that includes all IEEE 802 Ethernet standards, the Ethernet Alliance will serve as an industry resource and will help member companies increase acceptance and reduce time-to-market of Ethernet products by supporting the advancement of existing and emerging Ethernet technologies.
Founding members of the Ethernet Alliance are 3Com, ADC, Agere Systems, Aquantia, Broadcom, Force10 Networks, Foundry Networks, Intel, Lawrence Berkeley Labs, Pioneer Corporation, Quake Technologies, Samsung, Sun Microsystems, Tehuti Networks, Tyco Electronics, The University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL), and Xilinx.
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FiberNet Delivers Flexible VoIP Peering Service with Force10 Networks
Force10 Networks has announced that FiberNet Telecom Group (NASDAQ: FTGX) has deployed the TeraScale E-Series in its metro Ethernet backbone to power its new Phonomenum™ voice over IP (VoIP) peering service. The Force10 TeraScale E-Series family of switch/routers provides the real-time transport of voice and video traffic, enabling FiberNet to deliver reliable voice peering services to the hundreds of service providers that interconnect at the 60 Hudson St. Meet-Me-Room, the premier interconnection site in the U.S. for global telecommunications providers.
"The rapid growth of VoIP services has led FiberNet to build a state-of-the-art peering infrastructure that provides carrier-class reliability and scalability beyond today's standards," said Ernie Hoffmann, vice president of engineering at FiberNet Telecom Group. "With the Force10 E-Series as the lynchpin of our new Phonomenum service, we are providing a platform that enables carriers, cable operators and service providers to establish reliable and resilient direct peering connections for VoIP traffic today and into the next decade."
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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 applications, such as network video and data backups, are not very sensitive to latency or packet loss, but are bandwidth intensive.
This paper describes the features that next generation switch/routers must possess if they are to successfully support the evolution of Ethernet as the networking technology of choice for highly scalable, highly reliable, service-aware LANs and MANs. Included in the discussion is a description of some of the key features that make the Force10 E-Series the yardstick against which all other next generation Ethernet switch/routers should be measured.
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