MILPITAS, CA - Force10 Networks, the pioneer in Gigabit and 10 Gigabit Ethernet innovation, announced on Thursday that it has been awarded a patent for its groundbreaking advancements in developing the high capacity backplane that powers the TeraScale E-Series. Force10 has more than 50 patents and patents pending for its innovations in terabit scale switching and routing.
With its innovative and patent-protected design, the Force10 TeraScale E-Series can process one billion packets per second, making it the industry’s first true Terabit switch/router, a press release by the Company stated.
The industry-leading Gigabit and 10 Gigabit Ethernet densities and unmatched resiliency of the TeraScale E-Series enable network operators to process more traffic on a single system, reducing network complexity and total cost of ownership.
The technological and design advances developed by Force10 drive the industry-leading performance and resiliency of the TeraScale E-Series. Force10’s passive copper backplane leverages advanced multi-layer design and manufacturing techniques to scale to 5 Terabits per second, the highest in the industry.
In addition to providing immense scalability, the backplane also increases network resiliency by eliminating all active components. The combination of the capacity and the resiliency of the TeraScale E-Series backplane enables network operators to migrate from 10 Gigabit Ethernet to both 40 and 100 Gigabit Ethernet without the expense of a forklift upgrade.
The Force10 TeraScale E-Series also employs a patent-protected use of memory to provide more flexible and granular features to network operators. Rather than allocate high touch features, such as bandwidth shaping and access control lists, on a per port basis, the TeraScale E-Series is designed to allocate features where and when the customer needs them most.
