Foundry Networks Gains Momentum in Internet Router Market; Foundry Continues Internet Router Success With Over 50 Major Customer Wins To Date.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 21, 2000 Foundry Networks(TM), Inc. (Nasdaq:FDRY), a leader in high-performance, end-to-end switching and routing solutions, announced today that it now has won over 50 major Internet Router customers as it continues to make impressive gains in the exploding Internet router market. Foundry's key customers now include major customers such as AOL, Earthlink, Yahoo!, Google.com, Evoke Communications and Telocity. Foundry had earlier reported that it had 18 Internet router customers at the end of June, 2000. "Now with more than 50 Internet router customers, Foundry has now been validated as the provider of choice offering best-of-breed solutions and a complete end-to-end, high-performance network infrastructure for customers who require complete, highly available, highly scalable and industry-leading price/performance network solutions," said Bobby Johnson, president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Foundry Networks. "Many of our Internet router customers have also standardized on our Layer 3 switches and Layer 4-7 Web switching products for their infrastructure needs," continued Johnson. Foundry's chassis-based NetIron product family, including the NetIron(TM)400, NetIron(TM)800, and NetIron(TM)1500 Internet Backbone Router, provides unparalleled routing performance, switching capacity, scalability, control, and functionality. With capabilities ranging from 10 Mbps to 10 Gbps, the chassis-based NetIron is designed to meet the expanding bandwidth and control requirements faced by Internet Service Providers (ISPs) today. Foundry's key differentiators include reliability, switching capacity, high-density OC-48 connectivity, extensive security features, compactness, and the industry-leading price. Delivering up to 480 Gbps of non-blocking total switching capacity, Foundry Networks' NetIron1500 15-slot (NI1500), NetIron800 8-slot (NI800), and NetIron400 4-slot (NI400) modular chassis products provide OC-3, OC-12, and OC-48 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. (POS (1) See point of sale and packet over SONET. (2) "Parent over shoulder." See digispeak. POS - point of sale ) WAN connectivity. In a maximum high-performance WAN configuration, the NetIron800 can provide 14 OC-48 ports along with up to 4 Gigabit Ethernet ports if needed while the NetIron1500 can provide a maximum configuration of 28 OC-48 ports along with four Gigabit Ethernet ports if desired. The chassis-based NetIron is aimed specifically at satisfying the exploding bandwidth requirements encountered by growth oriented ISPs. 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), 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 (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 NetIron are trademarks of Foundry Networks, Inc. All other trademarks are the sole property of their respective holders. |
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