Foundry Networks Demonstrates the World's Most Compact, Highest Performing Layer 3 Switch Using Spirent Communications' SmartBits System At NetWorld+Interop Atlanta.Business Editors NetWorld Interop Atlanta 2000 Booth No. 7323 See Foundry's Live Demo of the BigIron 15000 Layer 3 Switch Running at 178,000,000 Packets Per Second (pps) at Booth No. 7323 ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 26, 2000 Foundry Networks(TM), Inc. (Nasdaq:FDRY), a leader in high-performance, end-to-end switching and routing solutions, announced today that it has chosen Spirent's SmartBits(R) 6000 system to test Foundry's BigIron(TM) 15000 Layer 3 switch in a live demonstration at NetWorld + Interop in Foundry's booth No. 7323. Foundry will demonstrate its BigIron 15000 with six SmartBits 6000 systems, providing 120 non-blocked, full line rate, Layer 3 Gigabit Ethernet ports, to demonstrate 178 Mpps. Foundry delivers this throughput in a chassis measuring less than 30 inches tall, smaller than any other alternative on the market today. The BigIron 15000 is a carrier-class chassis-based Layer 3 switch that delivers an immense 480 Gigabits per second (Gbps) of total switching capacity and 178 Mpps of routing throughput. The BigIron 15000 Layer 3 switch can scale up to 120 Gigabit Ethernet ports in a chassis measuring 29 3/4 inches high by 19 inches wide and 15.25 inches deep -- the world's most compact form factor in the industry today. Spirent Communications' SmartBits 6000 is an advanced multi-port network performance analysis system that allows users to identify weaknesses in their networks or network products through rigorous performance testing of both new and legacy networking technologies "We are pleased to be teaming with a market leader such as Foundry at NetWorld+Interop for the live demonstration using our SmartBits solution," said Mark Fishburn, Spirent Communications, vice president of marketing for SmartBits Systems. "With our SmartBits Gigabit Ethernet solution, we continue to lead the way in full wire-rate performance analysis systems," continued Fishburn. Both Foundry Networks and Spirent Communications will be exhibiting at the NetWorld+Interop tradeshow in Atlanta, GA from September 26-28, 2000. Spirent Communications will be located at booth No. 7337 and Foundry at booth No. 7323. About Spirent Communications Spirent Communications is the world leader in performance analysis solutions. The company designs and manufactures Abacus, Adtech, DLS DLS abbr. Doctor of Library Science , GSS (storage) GSS - Group-Sweeping Scheduling. , Metrohm, SmartBits, and TAS products to provide customers with a full-breadth of comprehensive and integrated performance analysis test solutions. Spirent Communications' solutions accelerate development and minimize the risk of deployment of new communications technologies. SmartBits products have become the industry standard for network performance analysis systems, generating and analyzing traffic, at full wire rate, over hundreds of ports for: 10/100/1000 Mbps Ethernet, Packet over SONET A metropolitan area network (MAN) or wide area network (WAN) transport technology that carries IP packets directly over SONET transmission without any data link facility such as ATM in between. , ATM, Frame Relay, WAN, xDSL and Cable Modem networks. SmartBits award winning hardware and software applications are used by more than 1300 of the world's leading network equipment manufacturers, network service providers, corporate enterprises and test laboratories to measure the performance of networks and network devices. For more information on Spirent Communications or SmartBits products, visit the web site at www.spirentcom.com or call 1.800.927.2660. 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 Layer 4-7 Internet traffic and content management switches. Foundry products are installed in the world's largest ISPs, including AOL (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :AOL), EarthLink (Nasdaq:ELNK ELNK EarthLink, Inc. (stock symbol) ELNK Ethernet Link ), 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, University of Washington, University of, at Seattle; state supported; coeducational; chartered and opened 1861 as the Territorial Univ. of Washington, renamed 1889. There are noted schools of medicine and engineering, and the university operates laboratories for the marine Miami, LucasFilm, Yahoo! (Nasdaq:YHOO YHOO Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ symbol) ), LTV LTV See: Loan-to-value ratio Steel (NYSE:LTV), Incyte Pharmaceuticals (Nasdaq:INCY), U.S. Army, Air Force and Navy, NASA NASA: see National Aeronautics and Space Administration. NASA in full National Aeronautics and Space Administration Independent U.S. 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 (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. or visit our web site at www.foundrynetworks.com. Note to Editors: Foundry Networks and BigIron are trademarks of Foundry Networks, Inc. SmartBits is a registered trademark of Spirent Communications |
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