Foundry Networks

Foundry Networks

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Foundry's chassis-based BigIron family of Layer 3 Backbone Switches for the campus, MAN and LAN environments delivers up to 3.84 Terabits per second of backplane switching capacity, dramatically reduces performance bottlenecks with wire-speed IP routing. With this capacity, the BigIron RX Series scales to support 192 separate 10 Gigabit Ethernet ports in a single 7 foot rack. The entire BigIron family scales to easily handle several hundred non-blocking Gigabit Ethernet ports at a peak performance of up to 1.14 Billion packets per second - delivering greater performance than competitive switches and routers at a much lower price.

Foundry's complete line of award-winning Layer 2 and Layer 3 switches include the FastIron and EdgeIron product families. These products deliver a new level of performance and functionality for Enterprise and Service Provider networks. Based on Foundry's high performance architectures, these products deliver industry-leading performance, price/performance and high-density 10/100/1000 Mbps Ethernet connectivity for Enterprise backbones, high-density wiring closet environments, and Service Provider edge applications.

Wireless

Foundry's Integrated Wireless and Wired Infrastructure strategy consists of three components; the IronPointT 200 IEEE 802.11a/b/g standards-based multi-mode full-featured access points, a SNMP-based IronPoint WiFi Management application suite, as well as a Wireless LAN software upgrade option for Foundry's popular FastIron JetCoreT modular, FastIron Edge and FastIron Edge Power-over-Ethernet switches. By leveraging the latest 802.11 standards, these products deliver a wireless LAN solution which offers strong security, seamless mobility, centralized management, dynamic user policies and ease of use, leading to lower long term cost of ownership.

Routers

The chassis-based NetIron product family provides unparalleled, wire-speed IP routing performance and switching capacity to meet the expanding requirements of service providers and large enterprises. Built on the foundations of a robust, high availability system architecture, these routers are designed for the most demanding of applications in a converged network. The newest additions to the NetIron router family are the NetIron XMR Series and NetIron MLX Series routers. The NetIron XMR Series offers industry leading performance and scalability for advanced IPv4, IPv6, and MPLS service delivery. The NetIron MLX Series of switching routers offers advanced service delivery capabilities for the metro edge, large enterprise and High Performance Computing. The NetIron Metro Routers have a variety of interfaces designed to protect existing investment while providing a migration path to the future. Powered by feature-rich Multi-Service IronWare operating system software, the NetIron product family allows network administrators to dramatically lower their total cost of ownership of the network. The NetIron routers are designed to be NEBS Level 3 compliant.

The AccessIron family of enterprise wide area network (WAN) access routers delivers high performance, unparalleled scalability, plus an advanced feature set, giving organizations the WAN routing capabilities they need for the most demanding networking environments.

Layer 4-7 Switches

The ServerIronTM family of Layer 4-7 switches is the industry leader in load balancing servers, firewalls, caches, ISP links, and data centers with high-performance Layer 4-7 switching and integrated Layer 2/3 functionalities. ServerIron switches enable network managers to build and secure mission-critical application infrastructure that is massively scalable and always available. Mission-critical applications are protected with IronShieldTM security against multiple forms of Denial of Service (DoS), Virus and Worm attacks. Many of the world’s most demanding Enterprise, Service Provider, E-Commerce and Government organizations rely on ServerIron switches to enable highly secure and always-on applications.

SecureIron Products

SecureIron security products and solutions address the critical needs of Enterprise and Service Provider infrastructures for scalable network-wide security against emerging vulnerabilities and threats. Two new families of SecureIron products – SecureIron Security Traffic Managers and SecureIronLS secure LAN switches – deliver application-aware security protection at the network perimeter, internal network aggregation points, within the data center, and to directly-attached workstations and servers. The SecureIron solution provides protection against a broad range of threats including network and application-layer attacks, DoS attacks, intrusions, viruses, worms, SPAM and Web-based attacks.