Force10 to provide infrastructure for Sega's online titles

Switching and routing services supplier Force10 Networks has signed a deal with Sega to provide online infrastructure for the publisher's forthcoming online software titles.

Force10's TeraScale E-Series will be used as the core router for the network, and will power online play for titles such as Phantasy Star Universe, Chromehounds and RF Online.

"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 Sega network engineer Yoshimi Agata.

"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."

Force10's Mark Cooper added: "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,"

"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."