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Force10 Networks joins with Quantel to deliver high performance digital media data center solutions (1/10/2007)

Force10 Networks(r), the pioneer in building and securing reliable networks, today announced that it is joining with Quantel, creator of the most powerful and efficient tools for digital content creation and production, to bring high performance networking and workflow solutions to the digital media data center.

Quantel is leveraging the high density and compact, fixed form factor of the Force10 S50N data center switch to provide its customers with a reliable and cost-effective production network. The Force10 S50N supports 48 line-rate Gigabit Ethernet ports and up to four 10 Gigabit Ethernet uplinks delivering the high performance network connectivity essential for business-critical, shared workflow applications.

"Together, Force10 and Quantel deliver innovative, state of the art capabilities to broadcasters and digital media post production facilities," said Stephen Garrison, vice president of marketing at Force10 Networks. "We are fortunate to be working with a company that makes world beating equipment for news and sport production, commercials production for film and TV, amazing real time color correction systems, as well as the very high end film post production areas. We have been working with Quantel for some time now, and are pleased to announce that the Force10 S50N is in prime time use on the Quantel stand at IBC 2007."

"Quantel systems rely on high data rate, high speed, high reliability network connectivity to deliver the kind of collaborative workflows that enable broadcasters and film & TV post production houses to share high resolution media across multiple users and get stunning looking programmes on air - or movies on screen - quickly and efficiently," said Norman Rouse, Group Marketing Manager at Quantel' Headquarters in Newbury, UK. "We make extensive use of Force10's switching technology in both our Research and Development facilities and our worldwide demonstration systems, precisely because they can be relied on to deliver the kind of performance that allows us to show our post production, digital intermediate systems, as well as the news and sport server systems to their very best effect. The company itself is also a delight to deal with - professional, knowledgeable and above all, extremely capable."

The Force10 digital media data center ecosystem is a collaboration with industry leading partners such as Quantel to demonstrate seemless product interoperability and to assure that customers can quickly and flexibly respond to new demands being placed upon their data centers as the digital media revolution unfolds.

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