"Gmarket is a fast moving marketplace designed to offer buyers and sellers a place where they can securely and confidently buy and sell goods", stated Jooyoung Mok, managing director of the technology division at Gmarket. "Delivering real-time services to on-line users requires a robust infrastructure, and Force10 delivers the reliable anytime access we require to create an exciting shopping experience for our customers."

The Force10 TeraScale E600 is at the foundation of Gmarket's data centre, powering its on-line shopping mall. The fully redundant 10 Gigabit Ethernet core ensures line-rate traffic throughput from the servers and a real-time, always available shopping experience for its users. With support for 630 Gigabit and 112 Ten Gigabit Ethernet ports, the TeraScale E600 also allows Gmarket to seamlessly scale its data centre capacity as user demand dictates.

To further increase user experience, Gmarket is utilizing the serviceability features of FTOS, the modular Force10 operating system. Inline diagnostics and monitoring tools provide Gmarket with a more detailed view of traffic, enabling the company to optimize its network to meet user traffic patterns and more easily troubleshoot problems. Additionally, fully modular processes prevent errors in one process from impacting others, reducing unplanned network downtime and providing more predictable performance.

"On-line marketplaces like Gmarket must accommodate growing and largely unpredictable traffic as new users find their services", stated Stephen Garrison, vice president of marketing at Force10 Networks. "Force10 brings these growing e-commerce businesses the predictable performance and seamless scalability that helps them create value for their customers."

The reliability and availability that Force10 brings to online marketplaces like Gmarket and Etsy are critical to other on-line environments that demand real-time experiences, such as gaming. The Force10 Reliable Networking product portfolio has been deployed in many of these demanding environments, including Nexon, SEGA, Neowiz, NCsoft, NHN and Shanda.