The Power of Performance

The AccessIron family of enterprise wide area network (WAN) access routers delivers high performance, unparalleled scalability, plus an advanced feature set, giving organizations the WAN routing capabilities they need for the most demanding networking environments. With Foundry AccessIron WAN solutions, enterprises and service providers benefit from:

• Scalable NxT1/E1 and T3 WAN access solutions
• Three times the performance of competitive industry platforms
• Highly integrated platform with advanced layer 2 and layer 3 functionality, a high performance processor, large memory capacity, built-in CSU/DSU and DSX-1 voice support
• Complete suite of software tools to easily manage bandwidth and services for reliable delivery of voice, video, and data communications over the same infrastructure
• High quality video and multimedia communications
• Lower total cost of ownership
• Flexible deployment options
• Reliable multimedia application delivery

Foundry AccessIron edge routers can be deployed in a transparent layer 2 mode into existing infrastructure while still providing some layer 3 functions. As a result, network administrators can leverage existing routing, QoS, VLAN, management, and security policies as they improve the performance, scalability, and reliability of their WAN access capabilities.

In addition to providing high-performance, scalable access for a variety of voice, video, and data applications, Foundry AccessIron products include and extensive suite of advanced security features that include password, access control, network address translation (NAT), encryption, authentication, stateful packet inspection (SPI), and virtual local area network (VLAN) tagging and forwarding protections.