JPIX Selects Force 10 Networks Switch, Routers

Japan Internet Exchange Co. Ltd., or “JPIX,” reportedly has selected Force10 Networks’ ExaScale E-Series family of switch/routers to provide high-performance 10 Gigabit Ethernet, or “10 GbE,” services and industry-leading port density for its growing network. 

Force10 Networks (News - Alert) officials said that the chassis-based ExaScale E1200 switch/routers serve as a scalable and reliable core capable of handling the ever-increasing amount of traffic created by its enterprise business and service provider customers.

“Because of the traffic growth, our hardware infrastructure deployment decisions cannot be made simply on the needs we face today,” Takejiro Takabayashi, senior engineer, JPIX, said. 

Takabayashi said that the Force10 ExaScale solution provides the company with tremendous port density that protects investment, coupled with non-blocking line-rate Gigabit and 10 GbE performance that answers the company’s bandwidth requirements today and is already configured to accommodate the 40 GbE and 100 GbE speeds that the customers will eventually demand going forward.

“JPIX shares our vision of the Terabit-enabled core that is highly reliable, efficient in its operations and agile in its ability to scale and respond to changing conditions,” Steve Garrison, vice president of marketing at Force10, said. 

Additionally, Garrison said that by deploying ExaScale with its modular FTOS, JPIX is able to reap the benefits of scalability and performance predictability that have been hardened in some of the world’s most demanding networks.

The ExaScale switch/router provides JPIX with stability, density and performance by utilizing third-generation Force10 technology that incorporates patent-protected innovations and design advances to deliver unprecedented, non-blocking line-rate GbE and 10 GbE densities. 

With support for 140 line-rate 10 GbE SFP+ ports per chassis, the ExaScale E-Series is the only switch/router with 100 Gbps of useable data capacity per slot today. 

In addition to capacity, the E1200 delivers total throughput of more than two billion packets per second across a switching fabric capacity of 3.5 Tbps or 250 Gbps full duplex per slot.