Force10 Networks today announced that Sega is using the TeraScale E-Series in their online gaming network. The E-Series apparently provides "a reliable, high performance foundation" and "delivers the robust Layer 3 functionality required to bring hundreds of thousands of gamers in geographically diverse locations together in an online world." For Sega, the E-series also "distributes switching, routing and management functionality between distinct processors and maximizes network uptime."

"To provide the online gaming experience our users demand, we needed a robust infrastructure that could both provide performance predictability and scale as new players enter the game," said Yoshimi Agata, network engineer in the Network Operations Department at Sega. "The E-Series switch/router provided us with the high capacity we needed to simplify our network and allowed us to create the reliability of an offline game in an interactive online world."

"As a bandwidth-intensive application, online gaming requires not only a high capacity network but also maximum reliability and resiliency to ensure that interactions in the online worlds are in real time," said Mark Cooper, senior vice president of worldwide sales at Force10 Networks. "The E-Series has proven itself in some of the largest and most complex networks in the world, and now we are bringing that experience to enterprises like Sega that require the same reliable, high performance networks."