09-01-2006, 09:37 PM
<strong>SEGA running at Force10!</strong> <img src="/images/PSU.jpg" alt="PSU" width="8" height="8">
<font size="1">[ Lee_yoshi - January 9 2006 - 3:37 PM ]</font>
<P align=center><IMG alt="Phantasy Star Universe!" hspace=0 src="/uploads/ragol_psulogo.gif" align=baseline border=1></P><P align=left><FONT face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Force10 has today announced that SEGA will be using Force10's TeraScale E-Series switch/router technology as the core router for many of their forthcoming games servers. </FONT><FONT face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The reason SEGA has decided to move towards Force10's technology comes hand in hand with the increasing number of Broadband gamers in this next generation of video gaming.</FONT></P><P align=center><FONT face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">"<EM>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. 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.</EM>"</FONT></P><P align=right><FONT face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">-Yoshimi Agata, Network Engineer at Sega.</FONT></P><P align=left><FONT face=Arial>An extract from the Press Release reads "<EM>With industry-leading Gigabit and 10 Gigabit Ethernet densities, the Force10 TeraScale E-Series enables SEGA to connect several hundred servers to a single system, simplifying network topologies and reducing both capital and operational costs.</EM>". This means that not only are SEGA saving money, but they'll be able to allow millions of players from all around the world to connect to the same servers in the blink of an eye, and do this so in a much more reliable and dependable manner. New players will also be able to join existing games at anytime with next to nothing interupting others on the network, a big factor to consider when thinking about how MMORPG's will work, such as <EM>Phantasy Star Universe</EM>.</FONT></P><P align=left><FONT face=Arial>The current titles SEGA have running on these networks are <EM>RF Online</EM>, <EM>Chromehounds</EM> (Xbox360), and <EM>Phantasy Star Universe </EM>(All set for release later this year), which will be running on the same networks.</FONT></P>
<font size="1">[ Lee_yoshi - January 9 2006 - 3:37 PM ]</font>
<P align=center><IMG alt="Phantasy Star Universe!" hspace=0 src="/uploads/ragol_psulogo.gif" align=baseline border=1></P><P align=left><FONT face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Force10 has today announced that SEGA will be using Force10's TeraScale E-Series switch/router technology as the core router for many of their forthcoming games servers. </FONT><FONT face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The reason SEGA has decided to move towards Force10's technology comes hand in hand with the increasing number of Broadband gamers in this next generation of video gaming.</FONT></P><P align=center><FONT face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">"<EM>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. 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.</EM>"</FONT></P><P align=right><FONT face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">-Yoshimi Agata, Network Engineer at Sega.</FONT></P><P align=left><FONT face=Arial>An extract from the Press Release reads "<EM>With industry-leading Gigabit and 10 Gigabit Ethernet densities, the Force10 TeraScale E-Series enables SEGA to connect several hundred servers to a single system, simplifying network topologies and reducing both capital and operational costs.</EM>". This means that not only are SEGA saving money, but they'll be able to allow millions of players from all around the world to connect to the same servers in the blink of an eye, and do this so in a much more reliable and dependable manner. New players will also be able to join existing games at anytime with next to nothing interupting others on the network, a big factor to consider when thinking about how MMORPG's will work, such as <EM>Phantasy Star Universe</EM>.</FONT></P><P align=left><FONT face=Arial>The current titles SEGA have running on these networks are <EM>RF Online</EM>, <EM>Chromehounds</EM> (Xbox360), and <EM>Phantasy Star Universe </EM>(All set for release later this year), which will be running on the same networks.</FONT></P>
