Force10 Networks Introduces A New Era of Open Cloud Networking

Force10 introduced a disruptive set of products to address the new cloud networking market driven by massive virtualization and cloud spec scale data centers.  First its new Z9000 Distributed Core System promises to be 1/10th the footprint, at 1/5th the price and 1/20th the power consumption of other core switches.  The Z9000 is 32x40GbE or 128x10GbE platform where multiple Z9000s are connected via an open distributed core supporting up to 24,000 10GbE server links.  In addition, Force10 introduced a next generation ToR switch, the S7000 that supports 40x10GbE, 12x2/4/8G FC plus 4x40GbE combining networking, storage a Open Cloud Applications.   Arpit Joshipura, Chief Marketing Officer at Force10 Networks discusses Force10’s Open Cloud Networking products and strategy and the new design options they afford to IT architects.