Foundry NetIron

Foundry Networks NetIron Switch

NetIron XMR Series, IMR 640, 40G, 400, 800, and 1500

Service Provider Class NetIron Routers

Foundry Networks’ NetIron routers are designed to address the exploding bandwidth and functionality requirements encountered by Service Providers today.

The NetIron XMR-series routers are the industry’s most powerful IPv4/IPv6/MPLS multi-service routers. Based on a superior Terabit scale architecture comprising state of the art network processors, the NetIron XMR-series offers highly versatile, cost efficient solutions that allow services providers to deploy high value and profitable services.

A recent addition to the NetIron Router family is the NetIron IMR 640 based on the latest Terathon-M network processor technology for intelligent, high performance IPv4, IPv6, and MPLS service delivery. Based on the award winning NetIron 40G technology, both platforms feature Foundry Direct Routing (FDR) technology offering a high end, highly scalable routing solution aimed at addressing the ever growing needs of many Service Providers including Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Metro Service Providers (MSPs), Internet Data Centers, Application Service Providers (ASPs), and Multi-Media Content Providers.

The NetIron chassis routers, with the addition of the NetIron IMR 640, offer up to 1.28 Terabits/second, and 480 Million packets per second (Mpps) in a single system for IPv4, IPv6, and MPLS routing as well as Layer 2 switching.

The NetIron family offers multiple form factors to address service provider needs from edge to core applications. In addition to the NetIron IMR 640 and the NetIron 40G, the NetIron family includes the NetIron 400 4-slot, NetIron800 8-slot, NetIron1500 15-slot designed to eliminate performance bottlenecks with wire-speed IP routing for edge and distribution layer deployments.

The NetIron family is designed for unparalleled routing capacity, scalability, control, and functionality. Powered by Foundry’s IronWare operating system, the NetIron routers offer feature rich solutions that include support for Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), wire speed ACLs, hardware-based multicast, MPLS, traffic engineering, Virtual Leased Lines (VLLs), Virtual Private LAN Services (VPLSes), and BGP/MPLS VPNs. The chassis-based routers offer interfaces including OC-3c, OC-12c, and OC-48c Packet over SONET/SDH, OC-3 ATM, and Gigabit to 10 Gigabit Ethernet.