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Force10 Teams with Solarflare to Offer Bundled End-to-End 10GbE Solution

Force10's S4810 top-of-rack switch and the Solarflare SFN5122F and SFN5162F dual port 10GbE SFP+ server adapters now offered by Avnet and Synnex.

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August 10, 2011

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Force10 Networks Inc. has entered into a joint marketing agreement with Solarflare to bundle Force10's S4810 top-of-rack (ToR) data center switch with the Solarflare SFN5122F Enterprise dual-port 10Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) SFP+ server adapter and the Solarflare SFN5162F Midrange dual-port 10GbE SFP+ server adapter. 

Customers who purchase the bundles will also have access to Solarflare OpenOnload application acceleration middleware.

The Force10 S4810 is an ultra low-latency 10/40 GbE ToR switch designed for applications in high-performance data center and computing environments. Leveraging a non-blocking, cut-through switching architecture, the S4810 delivers line-rate L2 and L3 forwarding capacity. The S4810 design provides 48 dual-speed 1/10 GbE (SFP+) ports, as well as four 40 GbE QSFP+ uplinks.

The Solarflare SFN5122F enterprise 10GbE SFP+ server adapter is intended for scale-out cloud and big data applications, high-performance computing (HPC), high frequency trading and virtualized data centers. The SFN5162 midrange 10GBE SFP+ server adapter has been developed for use in SMB, and HPC environments. Solarflare adapters support Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES), and Solaris, and are fully certified for Microsoft Windows Server, VMware, and Citrix environments.

For more information, visit Force10 Networks Inc.and Solarflare.
Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company's website.

 

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