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Force10 Networks, formerly nCore Networks, is an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 company which develops and markets high density 10 Gigabit
10 gigabit Ethernet

The 10 Gigabit Ethernet or 10GbE or 10 GigE standard was first published in 2002 as IEEE Std 802.3ae-2002 and is the fastest of the Ethernet standards....
 and 100 Gigabit
100 Gigabit Ethernet

40 Gigabit Ethernet, or 40GbE, and 100 Gigabit Ethernet, or 100GbE, are Ethernet standards presently under early development by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers....
 Ethernet
Ethernet

Ethernet is a family of Data frame-based computer networking technologies for local area networks . The name comes from the physical concept of the Luminiferous aether....
 network infrastructure equipment
Computer network

A computer network is a group of interconnected computers. Networks may be classified according to a wide variety of characteristics. This article provides a general overview of some types and categories and also presents the basic components of a network....
 to a variety of corporate, educational, and governmental enterprises. It has offices in North America, Europe, and the Asia Pacific region.

The company was named by founder Som Sikhdar, an avid sailor
Sailor

A sailor or mariner is a person who navigates ships or assists in their operation, maintenance, or service. The term can apply to professional mariners, military personnel, and recreational sailors as well as a plethora of other uses....
, after Force 10 on the Beaufort scale
Beaufort scale

The Beaufort scale is an empirical measure for describing wind wind speed based mainly on observed sea conditions. Its full name is the Beaufort wind force scale....
 for wind speeds, indicating a storm with high speed winds, and matched their focus on 10 Gigabit Ethernet switching and routing products.

Products
In January, 2002, Force10 released the E-Series E1200 switch/router
Router

A router is a Computer network device whose software and hardware are usually tailored to the tasks of routing and forwarding information. For example, on the Internet, information is directed to various paths by routers....
; at the time, it was the first in the industry to provide line-rate 10 Gigabit Ethernet switching.






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Force10 Networks, formerly nCore Networks, is an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 company which develops and markets high density 10 Gigabit
10 gigabit Ethernet

The 10 Gigabit Ethernet or 10GbE or 10 GigE standard was first published in 2002 as IEEE Std 802.3ae-2002 and is the fastest of the Ethernet standards....
 and 100 Gigabit
100 Gigabit Ethernet

40 Gigabit Ethernet, or 40GbE, and 100 Gigabit Ethernet, or 100GbE, are Ethernet standards presently under early development by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers....
 Ethernet
Ethernet

Ethernet is a family of Data frame-based computer networking technologies for local area networks . The name comes from the physical concept of the Luminiferous aether....
 network infrastructure equipment
Computer network

A computer network is a group of interconnected computers. Networks may be classified according to a wide variety of characteristics. This article provides a general overview of some types and categories and also presents the basic components of a network....
 to a variety of corporate, educational, and governmental enterprises. It has offices in North America, Europe, and the Asia Pacific region.

The company was named by founder Som Sikhdar, an avid sailor
Sailor

A sailor or mariner is a person who navigates ships or assists in their operation, maintenance, or service. The term can apply to professional mariners, military personnel, and recreational sailors as well as a plethora of other uses....
, after Force 10 on the Beaufort scale
Beaufort scale

The Beaufort scale is an empirical measure for describing wind wind speed based mainly on observed sea conditions. Its full name is the Beaufort wind force scale....
 for wind speeds, indicating a storm with high speed winds, and matched their focus on 10 Gigabit Ethernet switching and routing products.

Products


In January, 2002, Force10 released the E-Series E1200 switch/router
Router

A router is a Computer network device whose software and hardware are usually tailored to the tasks of routing and forwarding information. For example, on the Internet, information is directed to various paths by routers....
; at the time, it was the first in the industry to provide line-rate 10 Gigabit Ethernet switching. Force10 Networks is hoping to leverage its reputation for high performance and high reliability in high-end LAN switching to gain a foothold in midsize data centers and enterprise campus networks. The Force10 product portfolio now includes the E-Series family of switch/routers,the C300 switch, the S-Series family of access switches and the P-Series security appliances.

In 2007 it was actively working on 100 Gigabit Ethernet Switching.

Force10 Networks uses NetBSD
NetBSD

NetBSD is a freely redistributable, open source version of the Unix-derivative Berkeley Software Distribution computer operating system. It was the second open source BSD descendant to be formally released, after 386BSD, and continues to be actively developed....
 as the underlying operating system that powers FTOS (the Force10 Operating System). Force10 also made a donation to the NetBSD Foundation in 2007 to help further research and the open development community.

Customers


Force10 customers include enterprises in vertical industries such as media, financial services, oil and gas, Web 2.0 and gaming. Service providers, including Internet exchanges, wholesale providers, cable operators, and content delivery providers. Force10 customers include Yahoo!
Yahoo!

Yahoo! Inc. is an United States public company corporation with headquarters in Sunnyvale, California, , and provides Internet services worldwide....
, Sega
Sega

is a Multinational corporation video game software and hardware development company, and a home computer and console manufacturer headquartered in Ota, Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan....
, Veritas DGC, Equinix, CERN
CERN

The European Organization for Nuclear Research , known as CERN , , is the world's largest particle physics laboratory, situated in the northwest suburbs of Geneva on the France-Switzerland border, established in 1954 in science....
, NOAA, University College London Networks Research Group, and the Baylor College of Medicine.

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