Force10 Networks, the San Jose maker of high-end 10 Gigabit switch and router equipment, has raised another $50 million more in a fifth round of funding, according to VentureWire (sub required).
It follows a year where most industry watchers had expected Force10 to go public (see our earlier converage here). It has now raised more than $350 million, and now speculation is that the company will go public this year instead.
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(This story first posted 1/12)
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