MARCH 9, 2010 -- Force10 Networks Inc. says that the Budapest Internet Exchange (BIX) has selected the E-Series switch/routers to provide highly reliable performance and scalability for its growing customer base of Internet service providers (ISPs) and telcos in Hungary and in Eastern Europe.
“As the largest Internet exchange in Eastern Europe, we faced a 66% increase of Internet traffic per year in the recent years,” says Zoltan Kalmar, president of the BIX Committee. “The Force10 E-Series provided us with the non-blocking line-rate fabric we required in order to offer our customers highly reliable and predictable performance, while delivering the high 10-Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) density that ensures we have the right network backbone in place to handle our ever-growing traffic needs in the future.”
BIX initially installed a Force10 competitor’s higher-capacity line cards on their existing switch/routers as a temporary solution to handle their increasing traffic needs, says the switch/router vendor. However, after speaking with other European Internet exchanges that used Force10 and evaluating the switch/routers themselves, BIX engineers recognized that the E-Series would much more effectively support the more than 150-Gbps worth of sustained traffic and the peak throughput of more than 300 Gbps that they required, Force10 asserts.
With support for 140 line-rate 10GbE ports per chassis, the E-Series is the only switch/router that offers 100 Gbps of useable data capacity per slot today, Force10 says. BIX deployed the E1200 version of the platform.
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