Foundry Networks Announces America Online's Deployment of Foundry Networks' Packet Over SONET/SDH and BGP4 Internet Routers.Business Editors and High-Tech Writers SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 21, 2000 Foundry Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : FDRY), announced today that America Online, Inc. (AOL), the world's leading interactive services company, has deployed Foundry's BigIron(TM) 8000 Internet routers complete with OC-12c/STM4 Packet Over SONET/SDH Packet over SONET/SDH, abbreviated POS, is a communications protocol for transmitting packets in the form of the Point to Point Protocol over SDH or SONET, which are both standard protocols for communicating digital information using lasers or light emitting diodes (LEDs) interfaces to support their OSPF and BGP (Border Gateway Protocol) The routing protocol that is used to span autonomous systems on the Internet. It is a robust, sophisticated and scalable protocol that was developed by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). 4 networks. A long-time Foundry customer, AOL now uses Foundry's full product suite of Layer 2, Layer 3 and Layer 4-7 products worldwide. AOL is deploying Foundry's BigIron 8000s at the edge of their network, providing very-high-density 10/100 Mbps and Gigabit Ethernet aggregation to their high-speed Packet Over SONET/SDH backbone networks. Delivering up to 256 Gbps of backplane switching capacity, Foundry's BigIron 8000 8-slot modular chassis dramatically improves performance bottlenecks with wire-speed IP routing. Foundry's Internet routers are aimed specifically at satisfying the exploding bandwidth requirements encountered by growth-oriented companies such as AOL. Based on Foundry's unique IronCore(TM) architecture and IronWare(TM) software platform, the BigIron 8000 delivers up to 96,000,000 packets per second performance for reliable packet delivery even under the heaviest of Internet traffic loads. The need to increase density, move to higher-speed SONET/SDH interconnects and obtain other Layer 4 capabilities, drove AOL's decision to go with Foundry's Internet routers. "We're pleased to work with Foundry's Internet routers," said Joe Barrett, AOL's Vice President for Internet Operations. "We believe that Foundry adds LAN (Local Area Network) A communications network that serves users within a confined geographical area. The "clients" are the user's workstations typically running Windows, although Mac and Linux clients are also used. density, performance and high-speed filtering capabilities to our state-of-the-art network," continued Barrett. About Foundry Networks Foundry Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: FDRY) is a leader in high performance end-to-end switching and routing solutions including Internet routers, Layer 3 switches and Internet Traffic Management systems for Layer 4-7 switching. Foundry products are installed in the world's largest ISPs including AOL (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : AOL), MindSpring (NASDAQ: MSPG), AT&T WorldNet, MSN, and Cable & Wireless (NYSE: CWP CWP Coal workers' pneumoconiosis, see there ). Foundry products are also installed in large enterprise, entertainment, pharmaceutical and manufacturing companies as well as search engines, e-commerce sites, universities and government organizations. Some of these customers include: The University of Washington, LucasFilm, Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO), LTV LTV See: Loan-to-value ratio Steel (NYSE: LTV), Incyte Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: INCY), U.S. Army, Air Force and Navy, NASA and NIH "Not invented here." See digispeak. NIH - The United States National Institutes of Health. . For more information about the company and its products, call 1.888.TURBO.LAN or visit our web site at www.foundrynetworks.com. Note to Editors: Foundry Networks, BigIron 8000, IronCore and IronWare are trademarks of Foundry Networks, Inc. All other trademarks are the sole property of their respective holders. |
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