12 Facts About Force10

Dell Force10, was a United States company that developed and marketed 10 Gigabit and 40 Gigabit Ethernet switches for computer networking to corporate, educational, and governmental customers.

In mid 2013, the Force10 designation was dropped from the products in favor of the data center networking line of the Dell Networking brand, and some of the other product lines were sold.

In January 2009, Force10 was acquired by Turin Networks, which had previously purchased Carrier Access Corporation and White Rock Networks.

Dell Force10 continued to offer their non-Ethernet backhaul and metro-access platforms as well.

Force10 Networks has several product lines: Ethernet switches are marketed in four series, and other networking equipment for telecommunication providers and metropolitan networks:.

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Main product line for Dell Force10 was Ethernet switches divided into four product series:.

Force10 Networks hoped to expand from LAN switching to midsize data centers and enterprise campus networks.

In 2007 Force10 announced it had a patent relevant for 100 Gigabit Ethernet switching.

Force10 Networks uses NetBSD as the underlying operating system that powers FTOS.

Force10 made a donation to the NetBSD Foundation in 2007 to help further research and the open development community.

From January 19,2012, through mid-2013, Force10 products were available as Dell products and newly ordered products were sold with the Dell logo and colors.

Force10 customers include enterprises in industries such as media, financial services, oil and gas, Web 2.