FORCE10 NETWORKS TO SHOWCASE E-SERIES SWITCH/ROUTERS AT GARTNER ITXPO

Force10 Networks, Inc., a pioneer in resilient switching and routing, today announced that it is exhibiting and speaking at Gartners Symposium ITxpo, Oct. 19-24, 2003, at the Walt Disney World Dolphin Hotel in Orlando, FL. Force10 will feature its E-Series, a new generation of highly resilient and scalable switch/routers, in the Business Intelligence/Data Warehousing marketplace theater, booth 327.

FORCE10 NETWORKS TO SHOWCASE E-SERIES
SWITCH/ROUTERS AT GARTNER ITXPO

MILPITAS, CA (PRWEB) October 20, 2003 -- Force10 Networks, Inc., a pioneer in resilient switching and routing, today announced that it is exhibiting and speaking at Gartners Symposium ITxpo, Oct. 19-24, 2003, at the Walt Disney World Dolphin Hotel in Orlando, FL. Force10 will feature its E-Series, a new generation of highly resilient and scalable switch/routers, in the Business Intelligence/Data Warehousing marketplace theater, booth 327.

Marshall Eisenberg, Force10s director of technical marketing, will explore the role of Ethernet in data centers in his presentation Reliable Ethernet for Data Center Optimization" on Tuesday, Oct. 21, 2003, at 5:00 pm. Eisenberg will highlight the importance of the scalable and cost-effective technology in reducing data center operating costs and increasing network availability.

The Gartner Symposium ITxpo showcases cutting-edge technology breakthroughs. Marketplace theaters, which group exhibitors into specific areas of interest on the show floor, offer Gartner market analysis, vendor demonstrations and topic-intensive learning. In addition to more than 250 exhibits, more than 50 vendors are presenting solutions designed to help customers use their products more effectively.

The Force10 E-Series is a new generation of switch/routers that provide resilient, reliable line rate IP routing and switching at Gigabit and 10 Gigabit speeds. Built around the EtherScale ASICs, the E-Series offers the industrys first fully distributed hardware architecture. In combination with the fully modular Force10 FTOStm software, the E-Series provides best in class resiliency and redundancy at line rate 10 Gigabit speeds while also enabling new levels of network-based security with unique protection against Denial of Service attacks.

About Force10 Networks
Force10 Networks is the pioneer in scalable resiliency for high performance switching and routing. Based on a revolutionary system architecture that delivers best-in-class resiliency and massive scalability, Force10s E-Series switch/routers ensure predictable application performance, increase network availability, and reduce operating costs. Today, many of the worlds largest Gigabit Ethernet and 10 Gigabit Ethernet networks depend on Force10s Networks. For additional information, please visit the companys website at www.force10networks.com.

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