Telseon to Deploy Foundry BigIron IP Switches to Drive Gigabit-Bandwidth in Metro Area Networks.Business Editors/High-Tech WritersDENVER--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 9, 2000 Telseon, the established provider of fast, optical networks for the metropolitan area, today announced that it will deploy BigIron(R) Layer 3 Gigabit IP switches from Foundry Networks(R), Inc. (Nasdaq:FDRY) as part of its IP infrastructure to help speed up data traffic in the metro. As Telseon extends its Ethernet-based services within 20 U.S. metros by the year's end, it will utilize Foundry's BigIron Layer 3 Gigabit IP switches to increase performance. Telseon's service can connect businesses at about 20,000 times the speed of the fastest dial-up modem available, and enables customers to increase their bandwidth from one to 1,000 megabits with the click of a mouse. With robust features for streamlining e-business traffic, including up to 120 Gigabit Ethernet ports and ability to handle 178,000,000 packets of data per second, Foundry's switches will significantly enhance Telseon's instantly scalable data network. "Ethernet-based services over fiber are the future of data communications in the metro," said John Kane, Chief Executive Officer of Telseon. "Leveraging Gigabit Ethernet, we can typically provide twice the bandwidth at half the cost of traditional ATM/SONET solutions. But to realize this goal, we need equipment like Foundry's IP switches that are as flexible and reliable as Ethernet itself." Delivering up to 480 Gbps of total switching capacity, Foundry's BigIron Layer 3 Gigabit IP switches dramatically reduce performance bottlenecks with wire-speed IP switching in all ports. Foundry's Internet optical networking solutions, including long-haul Gigabit Ethernet up to 150 km, robust OSPF (Open Shortest Path First) A routing protocol that determines the best path for routing IP traffic over a TCP/IP network based on distance between nodes and several quality parameters. , 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 routing protocol implementation, Super-VLAN Aggregation over metro area backbone, rate limiting and traffic shaping features, are aimed specifically at satisfying the exploding bandwidth requirements of fast-growing metropolitan service providers such as Telseon. "We're thrilled to be part of the revolution that's breaking the bandwidth bottleneck and lowering business communications costs in the metro," said Bobby Johnson, president and Chief Executive Officer of Foundry Networks. "Together, Telseon and Foundry will enable service provider and enterprise customers to quickly scale their bandwidth up to Gigabit speed to deliver the next generation of applications-based on data and voice convergence, rich media content, multicast-based high quality video and other emerging technologies." About Telseon Telseon offers fast optical network services to enable service providers and their enterprise customers to break the bandwidth bottlenecks in the metropolitan area. Telseon's high-bandwidth IP services allow customers to extend their network reach to meet their data communications needs. With $86 million in funding from a number of well-respected venture capital and investment firms including Crosspoint Venture Partners, DLJ DLJ Distributor License for Java DLJ Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette Inc. DLJ Drive Like Jehu (band) DLJ Defence Laboratory Jodhpur (India) DLJ Dead Letter Journal , The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, Pivotal Asset Management and Sevin Rosen Funds Sevin Rosen Funds (SRF) is a venture capital firm that was established in 1981 by L.J. Sevin and Ben Rosen. SRF was involved in the financing of ArQule, CIENA, Citrix, Cypress Semiconductor, Electronic Arts, Lotus Development Corporation, Silicon Graphics, and Vitesse. , Telseon is well positioned to change the way metropolitan bandwidth is acquired and delivered. The company is headquartered in Denver, Colorado, and can be reached at 866-TELSEON or on the web at http://www.telseon.com. 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, The University of Miami This article is about the university in Coral Gables, Florida. For the university in Oxford, Ohio, see Miami University. The University of Miami (also known as Miami of Florida,[2] UM,[3] or just The U , LucasFilm, Yahoo! (NASDAQ:YHOO YHOO Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ symbol) ), LTV LTV See: Loan-to-value ratio Steel (NYSE:LTV), Incyte Genomics, Inc. (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 888/TURBO-LAN or visit our web site at www.foundrynetworks.com. Note to Editors: Foundry Networks and BigIron are registered trademarks of Foundry Networks, Inc. All other trademarks are the sole property of their respective holders. |
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