MILPITAS, Calif. -- Force10 Networks today announced that BIGLOBE, NEC’s wholly-owned flagship Internet service provider, has deployed the E-Series to increase scalability and reliability while maintaining line-rate 10 Gigabit Ethernet performance. Force10’s E1200 provides BIGLOBE with the capacity to accommodate the flood of peer-to-peer traffic that has overwhelmed its current network as well as the predictable performance that will enable BIGLOBE to deliver new value-added services.

“As the traffic on our network increased, we needed an IP routing solution that could scale to meet demand and introduce a level of predictability that would allow us to deliver advanced new services,” Masafumi Kawaseki, manager of BIGLOBE’s Design and Operations Division. “The Force10 E1200 brings the scalability and performance we require, enabling us to fully upgrade our network and create a better user experience for our subscribers.”

BIGLOBE is upgrading its current 10 Gigabit Ethernet network with the Force10 E-Series to provide line-rate throughput with a high degree of reliability to its more than four million subscribers. The Force10 E1200 scales up to twenty-eight 10 Gigabit Ethernet ports and 336 Gigabit Ethernet ports, delivering the capacity BIGLOBE needs today and the room to expand as traffic increases in the future. The EtherScale architecture of the E-Series features built-in redundancy and hitless failover technologies that bring BIGLOBE the resiliency it requires to deliver services to an increasing number of subscribers.

“With the rapid adoption of fiber to the home and the increasing popularity of bandwidth-intensive peer-to-peer applications, the need for a fast and powerful technology such as 10 Gigabit Ethernet in Japan is here,” said Andrew Feldman, vice president of marketing at Force10. “The Force10 E-Series delivers both the scalability and reliability that enables providers like BIGLOBE to expand their subscriber base and service offerings without compromising performance.”

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Force10 Networks Inc.