South Korea's Leading Content Delivery Network Provider Increases Resiliency and Scalability with Force10 Networks TeraScale E-Series

Business Wire, August 7, 2006

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Force10 Networks(R) today announced that CDNetworks, South Korea's leading content delivery network provider, is increasing the scalability of its high performance network with the TeraScale E-Series(R) family of switch/routers. With the Force10 TeraScale E-Series anchoring its content delivery network, CDNetworks enables its customers to gain the economic efficiencies of localized content and provides end users with faster access to high-bandwidth applications such as streaming audio and video files.

"With growing consumer demand for streaming audio, video and IPTV, our customers are storing more content on multiple servers throughout our network, increasing both our capacity and resiliency needs," said Young Kim, general manager of the Technical Support team at CDNetworks. "The Force10 E-Series provides an ideal solution for our networking demands in that it delivers the Gigabit and 10 Gigabit density we need as well as the resiliency that ensures our content delivery services meet the high expectations of both our customers and end users."

The Force10 TeraScale E300 supports 288 Gigabit and 48 Ten Gigabit Ethernet ports as well as unmatched resiliency, providing the reliable high density CDNetworks requires to scale its network without compromising performance. With the Force10 TeraScale E-Series interconnecting localized content servers across South Korea, CDNetworks enables its customers to rapidly and efficiently deliver the rich content end users are demanding.

"By allowing service providers to more quickly deliver high value content to the end user, the content delivery model is becoming an extremely important tool for service differentiation in a highly competitive market," said Mark Cooper, senior vice president of worldwide sales at Force10 Networks. "The combination of high density and resiliency in the Force10 TeraScale E-Series enables CDNetworks to build a resilient content delivery network that can seamlessly scale as traffic demands, allowing service providers to realize the cost efficiencies of localized content."

The unique multi-CPU architecture of the Force10 TeraScale E-Series distributes switching, routing and management functionality between three distinct processors. With protected memory for each function, the TeraScale E-Series can isolate faults to ensure the system continues to process traffic in the event of an attack. By eliminating unplanned network downtime, the TeraScale E-Series ensures high quality service delivery.

About Force10 Networks

Force10 Networks is the pioneer in building and securing high performance networks. Based on a revolutionary system architecture that delivers best-in-class resiliency and massive scalability, Force10's TeraScale E-Series switch/routers ensure predictable application performance, increase network availability, and reduce operating costs. Today, many of the world's largest Gigabit Ethernet and 10 Gigabit Ethernet networks depend on Force10 Networks. For additional information, please visit www.force10networks.com.

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