1 Partnership with Allied Telesyn Hugh Chawner

2 Force10 Networks Overview More than 100 customers worldwide, up 170% from last year More than 82,000 ports GbE & 2, GbE shipped Tier 1 partnerships, including IBM, Dell, Sun, Hitachi 275 employees WW with selective planned growth Fastest growing 10 GbE company in 2004 Significant Q/Q sales growth The Business Today 10 GbE Port Shipments Customer Growth

3 Force10 Worldwide Customers Reliable, High-speed Networks

4 Force10 Innovations Delivering Industry Firsts Apr 2002 Apr 2002 First Line-Rate 336 GbE Ports Demo First Line-Rate 336 GbE Ports Demo Nov 2003 Nov 2003 First Public Zero Packet Loss Hitless Failover Demo First Public Zero Packet Loss Hitless Failover Demo Jan 2002 Jan 2002 First Line-Rate 10 GbE System Shipped E1200 First Line-Rate 10 GbE System Shipped E1200 Oct 2002 Oct 2002 First Line-Rate 10 GbE Mid-Size System Shipped E600 First Line-Rate 10 GbE Mid-Size System Shipped E600 Nov 2003 Nov 2003 First Line-Rate 10 GbE Compact- Size System Shipped E300 First Line-Rate 10 GbE Compact- Size System Shipped E300 Sept 2004 Sept 2004 First Line-Rate 672 GbE / 56 – 10 GbE Ports First Line-Rate 672 GbE / 56 – 10 GbE Ports First 48 GbE x 10 GbE Purpose Built Data Center Switch First 48 GbE x 10 GbE Purpose Built Data Center Switch March 2005 March 2005 April 2005 April 2005 First >1200 GbE Ports Per Chassis First >1200 GbE Ports Per Chassis

5 10-GbE GbE /100/1000Base-TX Interface TypeE1200E600E300 Delivering: Extremely high density 10+ year life cycle Chassis bundles starting at $30k ASP port pricing –Copper GbE starting at $275 –Fiber GbE starting at $ GbE & 100 GbE ready with today's chassis / backplane Force10 E-Series: The 1 st Terabit Switch/Router

6 E1200: 1.68 Tbps Up to 1260 GbE, GbE E1200: 1.68 Tbps Up to 1260 GbE, GbE E600: 900 Gbps Up to 672 GbE, GbE E600: 900 Gbps Up to 672 GbE, GbE E300: 400 Gbps Up to 288 GbE, GbE E300: 400 Gbps Up to 288 GbE, GbE TeraScale E-Series / S-Series Industry Leading Density & Resiliency 1/6 Rack 1/2 Rack 1/3 Rack Enterprise Data Center / Backbone HPCC and SP Aggregation S50: 192 Gbps From 48 to 384 GbE GbE S50: 192 Gbps From 48 to 384 GbE GbE 1-RU

7 Line Rate Non Blocking There are 2 components required to achieve line rate non blocking performance Backplane connectivity –To deliver 48 GE of connectivity the traces to the backplane must provide in excess of this to allow for internal overhead –E600 / E1200 per slot capacity is 56.25Gbps –Force10 can scale this in the future to over 150Gbps using the existing backplane and new switch fabrics Packet Processing –To process enough packets to fill the links the ASICs must be capable of processing the packets –For 48 x GE = 48 x 1,488,095 = 71,428,560Mpps –For 4 x 10GE = 4 x 14,880,952 = 59,523,808Mpss –TeraScale FPCE can process 72Mpps

8 Core Hardware Platform E1200 Redundant Power Supplies: 1+1 DC 1+1 AC with rectifiers Redundant Power Supplies: 1+1 DC 1+1 AC with rectifiers Cable Management Redundant Route Processor Modules (RPMs): Line Cards Redundant Switch Fabric Modules (SFMs): 8: Tbps Capacity Redundant Switch Fabric Modules (SFMs): 8: Tbps Capacity Passive Copper Backplane 5 Tbps Capacity, 100 GbE Ready Passive Copper Backplane 5 Tbps Capacity, 100 GbE Ready Redundant Fans and Fan Modules

9 Core Hardware Platform E600 Redundant Power Supplies: 2+2 AC Cable Management Redundant Route Processor Modules (RPMs): Line Cards Redundant Switch Fabric Modules (SFMs): 8:1 900 Gbps Capacity Redundant Switch Fabric Modules (SFMs): 8:1 900 Gbps Capacity Passive Copper Backplane 2.7 Tbps Capacity, 100 GbE Ready Passive Copper Backplane 2.7 Tbps Capacity, 100 GbE Ready Redundant Fans

10 Operations Edge Hardware Platform E300 Redundant Switch Fabric Modules (SFMs): 2:1 400 Gbps Capacity Redundant Switch Fabric Modules (SFMs): 2:1 400 Gbps Capacity Passive Copper Backplane 1.2 Tbps Capacity, 100 GbE Ready Passive Copper Backplane 1.2 Tbps Capacity, 100 GbE Ready Redundant Fans Redundant Power Supplies: 2+2 AC Redundant Power Supplies: 2+2 AC Redundant Route Processor Modules (RPMs): 1+1 Cable Management 6 Line Cards

11 E-Series TM Interface Modules - Terascale E600 / E1200 Line-Rate Performance on ALL Ports 10GE GE 4-port 10GE–XFP (SR/LR/ER/ZR WAN) 48-port 10/100/1000Base-TX 48-port GE SFP (SX,LX,ZX) E1200/E600

12 Force10 Introduces Industry- Leading High Density Solution Industrys first 90-port GbE line card –E1200: 1,260 GbE ports –E600: 630 GbE ports Industry-leading scalability –90 ports per line card, 14 slots –5 Tbps backplane –337 Gbps per slot –40 & 100 GbE ready today Industry-leading investment protection –Capacity to accommodate growth for 10+ years –Scalability for forward thinking and cost-effective infrastructure

13 Buffer/Traffic Management Backplane Scheduler Ternary CAM 1GE/10GE MAC Buffer/Traffic Management Passive Copper Backplane Line Card Control Plane Hardware Redundancy Route Processor Module Multiprocessor and distributed control plane architecture 3 CPUs (Control, L2, L3) on RPM provides scalability Control protocol faults are isolated between CPUs (spanning tree loop) Protected memory among CPUs reduces process corruption Error detection and correction code/parity protected memory 1 CPU on every line card Error detection and correction code/parity protected memory Switched 100Mbps FDX out-of-band control plane communications to separate the data plane from control traffic

14 4K VLANs 64K MAC + L2 ACL entries per port pipe 802.1Q VLAN tagging VLAN Stacking Filtering and load balancing on L3 header 802.1p VLAN prioritization 802.3ad Link Aggregation 802.1D Spanning Tree Protocol RRR Rapid Root Redundancy (STP) MSTP (802.1s), RSTP (802.1w) Force10 VLAN Redundancy Protocol (FVRP) IS-IS, OSPF, BGP4, RIPv2 Static/Default/Policy routing 256K IP routing table IGMP/PIM-SM Multicast VRRP 64K L3/L4 ACL entries per Linecard Full Ternary CAM-based FIB OSPF/BGP graceful restart Marking / Classification: DiffServ, 802.1p, Measuring / Policing: 16 Token Bucket CARs per port – Avg/Peak Metering, WRED, class-based WFQ, multiple profiles 8 classes per port, 3 drop thresholds per class Cisco-like CLI, Syslog Ping, Traceroute, Telnet RADIUS, TACACS+, SSH SNMP v1, v2c (MIB II) RMON, sFlow, 64-bit counters FTP, TFTP client; NTP client DNS client, BootP/DHCP relay Destination-based MAC accounting ACL-based accounting Force10 FTOS TM Software Auto-Negotiation Link Failure Detection (FEDF / LFS) AIS/RDI (SONET/SDH, WAN) L2 Switching Quality of Service Management / Accounting Failure Detection / Signaling L3 Routing

15 Economics of High Density & Line- Rate Remove Wasteful Interconnects $330,000$55,0006GE cards $48, GE cards $489,000Total Cost $16,000$4,000410GE optics $95,000 1Chassis AmountListQty $270,000$22,50012GE cards $522,500$27, GE cards $1,428,275Total Cost $256,000$4, GE optics $379,975$75,9955Chassis AmountListQty High Density Low Density 4 x 10 GbE uplinks OP-EX BTU / hr 22,451 Power 6,580 W OP-EX BTU / hr 63,306 Power 18,544 W 30 x 10GbE Interconnects 512 Nodes x 10 GbE uplinks 5 5 5

16 Value of High Density A 270-Node Data Center Remove Wasteful Interconnects CAP-EX 75% lower up front cost, > $1 million savings One device, versus five 28 less line cards OP-EX 81% less power 81% less cooling needed (air conditioning) 80% less rack space 48 x 10 GbE Interconnects 270 line-rate nodes 4 x 10 GbE uplinks 90 4 x 10 GbE uplinks OP-EX BTU / hr 12,812 Power 3,760 W OP-EX BTU / hr 67,960 Power 19,920 W

17 Force10 S50 for Data Center Edge, Cluster Interconnect… 1-RU form-factor Wire-speed across all ports Stack up to 8 in virtual switch config for management simplicity Fully functional, standards-based L2 switching and L3 routing New S50, Front S50, Rear Fixed 48-port 10/100/1000 (4) GbE SFPs AC Power (Redundant) Stack Ports (2) 10Gbps (2) 10 GE XFPs

18 Total GbE Ports TeraScale E-Series More GbE Ports per Chassis Force10 E1200 Ports Per Line Card Line Card Slots Cisco Extreme Foundry x x x x Total GbE Ports Total Ports 1260 Force10 E x 630

19 Force10 & Google: Ensuring 250 Million Searches Daily! Google – the leading search engine and 3rd most visited site on the Internet – supports a very large number of users Laser focus on the speed of the search and finding the right answer the first time Network crucial component to adding new search services Data center outages could force rerouting of traffic, increasing search latency and decreasing customer stickiness

20 Google Around The World

21 Force10s Next Generation Data Center Architecture Device level redundancy changes to system resiliency Reduces number of network elements, easier to manage, trouble shoot, isolate faults Reduce number of layers in the network reduces complexity Predictable traffic patterns E GE CWDM Internet Connectivity Data Center Metro Interconnect

22 ISP / Hosting Customer: TrueServer – 10 GbE Core CHALLENGE Increase core capacity Internet Radio increasing load on existing network Improve network stability Competitors just upgraded to 1 GbE core SOLUTION E-Series delivers competitive advantage through simplicity 90-port density provides scalability for future growth Layer-2 switching & Layer-3 routing in one device Reduce costs by simplifying full-mesh 10 GbE core

23 Corporate Data Centre Customer: MCI London UK CHALLENGE Consolidate data centre infrastructure Leverage cost-effective Ethernet over dark fibre for connectivity between sites Reduce congestion to improve application performance SOLUTION E-Series delivers low-cost pt-to-pt 10 GbE connectivity Advanced resiliency features for maximum uptime High-density simplifies topology, lower costs

24 Government Customers: ECWMF & BSC Weather Forecasting CHALLENGE Increase weather forecasting accuracy –Trajectory / speed analysis –Strength projections Balance computing needs with budget constraints SOLUTION E-Series for integrated traffic management & WAN gateway High density / resiliency, reduces complexity BSC #4 on Top500. org ECWMF #11 & 12 on Top500.org

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26 Oil / Gas Exploration Customers: Reliable, Cost-Effective Ethernet Clusters CHALLENGE Minimize exploration cost & risk, maximize resource extraction Render 3-D images from massive seismic data files Extract location, depth & angle for drilling SOLUTION E-Series delivers six-fold increase in cluster speed High-density simplifies topology, lowers costs PGS & Veritas DGC ranked on Top500.org

27 Petroleum Geo-Services (PGS) Force10 Delivered 6-Fold Increase In Computing Time Petroleum Geo-Services (PGS) is an oilfield service company offering complete value chain from exploration to production PGS employs 3500 people with offices and operations in over 20 countries worldwide & revenues of $1 Billion (USD) Data intensive infrastructure supports Teraflops of processing power and Terabytes of storage PGS wanted to upgrade cluster facility to dramatically increase business processing speed

28 Petroleum Geo-Services (PGS) Force10 Cluster Solution

29 Research & Education Customers: Reliable, Cost-Effective Ethernet Clusters CHALLENGE Build high-performance centralised computing facility Shared University wide resource – Always On Maximize computing power with limited budget SOLUTION E-Series high-density maximizes compute nodes High-density simplifies topology, lower costs University Of Liverpool #257 on Top500.org

30 Campus Backbone Customer: Marconi Selenia Communications Allied Telesyn - Italy CHALLENGE Core refresh & campus expansion, increasing organizational efficiency Plan for longer product life cycle / depreciation cycle Ensure solution delivers high availability SOLUTION E-Series high-speed core ATI /100/1000 switches Advanced resiliency features for maximum uptime High density / capacity extends product life, simplifies topology

31 Hugh ChawnerStrategic Alliances Director Richard MachenSystems Engineer Adam FilbySystems Engineer Carmel KeightleyBusiness Support Force10 - Allied Telesyn Account Team EMEA

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