The Power of Performance

Foundry Networks ® offers a complete line of high-performance switches and routers for enterprise and service provider networks, enabling deployment of feature-rich and secure network infrastructures to support advanced data, voice, and video applications. Foundry's products are designed to provide industry-leading features, performance, reliability, and scalability for a wide range of infrastructure deployments including Enterprise, wiring closet, LAN backbone, data center, server farm, and metropolitan area networks. Foundry's products are built using standards-based technologies, an industry-standard CLI, a consistent hardware and software implementation, and a comprehensive management system from the network edge to the backbone. Customers benefit from lower network total cost of ownership (TCO) through ease of migration, integration, training, and support. Foundry Networks' products are backed by an award-winning technical support organization, which offers worldwide, 24-by-7 support to help customers keep their mission-critical networks running at the highest and most reliable performance levels.

Foundry's products are built around the advanced Terathon™ , JetCore® and IronCore® ASICs and IronWare™ switching and routing software suite. Foundry's products include the FastIron® family of Layer 2/3 LAN switches, the BigIron® Layer 3 switches, the NetIron® Metro routers, the ServerIron® family of Layer 4-7 web traffic management switches, EdgeIron™ mid-range Layer 2 switches, WAN AccessIron routers, and IronView network manager system. Available network interfaces range from 10/100/1000 Gigabit over Copper (GoC) Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet, and 10-Gigabit Ethernet, to OC-3/SDH ATM and OC-3/STM1, OC-12/STM4, and OC-48/STM16 Packet Over SONET/SDH.

Foundry's comprehensive security and management solutions include the revolutionary sFlow™ traffic monitoring system, which provides real-time, wire-speed network monitoring and capacity planning throughout the network. All of Foundry's products provide a consistent, easy-to-use network management interface including a command line interface, a Web-based graphical user interface (GUI), and an SNMP management interface.

Foundry's combined product breadth delivers global end-to-end solutions within and throughout a customer's networking infrastructure. By providing unmatched price/ performance, reliability, and rich functionality, Foundry products are essential in high-performance, highly available, and intelligent mission-critical networks.