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July 13, 2005 Milpitas, CA -- Equinix, a provider of network-neutral data centers and Internet exchange services, has deployed Force10 Networks' TeraScale E-Series switches and routers in a 10-Gigabit Ethernet (10-GbE) upgrade to the provider's Internet Business Exchange (IBX) center in the Washington, D.C. area, 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-GbE provides to guarantee service on their own networks," remarks Jay Adelson, CTO 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."
Equinix says it operates 15 IBX centers with a total footprint of more than one million square feet in the United States and Asia Pacific, enabling customers to directly interconnect with each other for critical traffic exchange requirements. The company says that over 200 networks serving approximately 90% of the world's Internet networks operate at its IBX centers, offering customers the opportunity to choose from numerous network providers and services.
The company says that the TeraScale E-Series provides the density and resiliency required to flexibly interconnect these providers. The company says the platform, which supports 672 line-rate Gigabit and 56 line-rate 10-GbE ports, also provides the scalability required to expand its services to meet customer demand.
Additionally, according to Equinix, the platform provides resiliency and traffic monitoring capabilities to enable high network availability, as well as rapid response to changes in network usage. According to Equinix, Force10's "sFlow" feature allows it to more effectively control and manage network usage, while full redundancy of all key components, coupled with Force10's "hitless failover" feature, ensures that the platform continues to process traffic in the event of a component failure.
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