Deployed TeraScale E-Series at the search engine network to reduce network complexity, conserve space in data center and reduce total ownership cost.

Force10 Networks, today announced that Baidu.com, a search engine in China, has deployed the TeraScale E-Series at the core of its data centers to increase network capacity and build in the scalability that will accommodate future growth.

Baidu claims that leveraging the high density and resiliency of the Force10 TeraScale E-Series, it is increasing predictable performance and simplifying its network to reduce total cost of ownership. Force10 TeraScale E1200 is providing the 10 Gigabit Ethernet the density it requires to connect servers within its multiple data centers. It also enables Baidu to process more search requests on a single system, and ensures congestion-free network.

Baidu says that with fewer systems, it is conserving space in its data centers and reducing operating costs. The high density of the Force10 TeraScale E-Series, coupled with robust Layer 2 and Layer 3 functionality, also enables Baidu to reduce the complexity of its network by collapsing the routing, core switching and access layers into a single layer, claims the company.

"As the world's sixth most visited web site and the second most visited website in China, Baidu requires the high density and resiliency that the TeraScale E-Series offers to more efficiently provide answers to an increasing number of searches," said Mark Cooper, Senior Vice President, Worldwide Sales, Force10.