Foundry Launches New Delivery Solution

Foundry Networks, Inc. (www.foundrynetworks.com), a performance and total solutions leader for end-to-end switching and routing, today announced a family of web accelerators designed to optimize the delivery of web-enabled applications and to scale web server farms and applications.

"The ServerIronSA family of web accelerators complements our performance-leading line of Layer 4-7 application switches, providing our customers with a powerful and complete solution for securing, scaling and optimizing the data center," said Bob Schiff, vice president and general manager of the Layer 4-7 and Security Products Business Unit for Foundry.

Unlike many solutions on the market, the new ServerIron®SA accelerators combine best-of-breed SSL acceleration with high-performance web content compression to maximize application performance and bandwidth utilization.

The combination of a ServerIronSA accelerator and ServerIron application switch provides a highly scalable traffic management solution for server farms supporting a mix of web and non-web IP applications to deliver optimized performance, robust security, high availability and business continuity.

Many enterprise and service provider organizations rely on their web application servers to process SSL-encrypted web traffic. As SSL traffic demand increases, server-based SSL termination can become a performance bottleneck.

Foundry's ServerIron application switches provide sophisticated Internet traffic and content management features including server load balancing, URL and cookie based switching, global server load balancing, and transparent cache switching. ServerIron and ServerIronGT E-series application switches offer modular expandability and performance upgradeability for maximum investment protection. Some of the world's most demanding customers such as AOL TimeWarner, NTT DoCoMo, and Wachovia Bank rely on Foundry ServerIron systems for server farm scalability and application security.
Foundry Networks, Inc. (Nasdaq: FDRY) is a leading provider of high-performance enterprise and service provider switching, routing and Web traffic management solutions including Layer 2/3 LAN switches, Layer 3 Backbone switches, Layer 4 - 7 Web switches, Wireless LAN and access points, access routers and Metro Routers.