Force10's GbE platform deployed in Stealth Communications' NY peering exchange
June 21, 2005 Milpitas, CA -- Stealth Communications has deployed Force10's E-Series as part of Stealth's Big Apple Peering Exchange (Big APE), an IPv4 peering fabric carrying voice and data traffic from providers including eircom, Net2Phone, PPL Telecom, Progress Telecom, and WV Fiber. In the deployment, Force10's E300 provides Gigabit and 10-Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) capabilities to enable delivery of services in the peering exchange.
"The Force10 E-Series delivers the superior performance and resiliency we need to build a scalable network that can reliably interconnect more than 200 providers at telx New York, transforming the Big APE into one of the largest peering exchanges in the United States," comments Shrihari Pandit, CEO and founder of Stealth Communications.
Stealth's Gigabit and 10-GbE peering exchange is located in telx New York's core facility. Stealth says that more than 80% of the service providers interconnecting at the facility are carrying voice over IP traffic, and that, as the foundation of the peering exchange, Force10's E300 provides throughput, density, and resiliency to enable the interconnection required to deliver voice service. Stealth says that Force10's TeraScale E-Series provides a scalable platform to enable reliable, cost-effective delivery of peering services priced at $1,000 per GbE port per year, which Stealth says is significantly below the industry average. Stealth also says the platform's density and resiliency also enables high performance Ethernet aggregation in service provider networks and at Internet exchange points.
"The density and resiliency of the Force10 E-Series fundamentally alters network economics, allowing Stealth to deliver an extremely compelling price point for peering services," remarks Andrew Feldman, vice president of marketing at Force10 Networks. "For service providers and Internet exchange points that are leveraging Ethernet in their networks, the E-Series provides the ideal solution."
Force10's TeraScale E-Series platform supports 1,260 Gigabit and 56 line-rate 10-GbE ports in a single chassis and can process one billion packets per second, according to the company. The company says the platform also supports a million access control lists, to provide scalable protection against denial of service attacks.