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MILPITAS, CALIF--Force10 Networks this week will debut a box that could help large corporations and carriers build beefier Gigabit and 10G Ethernet capacity than the most high-end switches currently available.
The E1200 and E600 switches from Force10 could be used to aggregate large amounts of Gigabit server connections in a large data center or to connect data centers with 10G Ethernet links in a metropolitan-area network, the company says. For an idea of the scale Force10 is targeting, consider this: The company does not offer 10M or 100M bit/sec Ethernet ports - only Gigabit and 10G.
Aiming squarely at high-end switches from Cisco, Extreme Networks and Foundry Networks, Force10's 14-slot E1200 chassis can support a maximum of 336 Gigabit Ethernet ports, 28 10G Ethernet ports or a mix of the two speeds. The company says it also supports Layer 2 switching and fully Layer 3 routing at wire speed on all ports. The switch also supports Multi-protocol Label...