Foundry Networks offers a complete line of high-performance enterprise and service provider switching, routing, application traffic management, and network wide security solutions. Foundry's comprehensive portfolio of products enable network convergence and deployment of feature-rich and secure network infrastructures to support advanced data, voice, and video applications. Foundry's products provide industry-leading features, performance, reliability, and scalability for a wide range of infrastructure deployments in Enterprise and Service Provider environments. Foundry's complete product portfolio enables converged and complete end-to-end networking solutions from the edge to the core of today's networking infrastructures.

BigIron

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 reducing network 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.

EdgeIron

Foundry Networks' EdgeIron family delivers a cost-effective solution for the enterprise wiring closet, server farm, and desktop applications for high-performance local area networks. The EdgeIron family of 10/100, 10/100/1000, and 10-Gigabit Ethernet switches delivers interface flexibility, wire-speed performance, superior port density, and a complete, standard Layer 2 feature set to address the needs of enterprise users. The EdgeIron products come in a 1-rack unit (RU) form factor, enabling seamless installation within a wiring closet, distribution, and data center environment.

FastIron

The FastIron family of compact and modular Layer 2/3 switching routers offer industry-leading 10-Gigabit Ethernet switch density, leading Layer 2 and Layer 3 scalability for demanding Enterprise LAN applications. With superior hardware redundancy, advanced hardware feature set, such as fine-grain bandwidth management, and wire-speed network monitoring and accounting features, the FastIron family makes it ideal for demanding converged enterprise networks, high performance computing environments, and customer-facing service provisioning.

IronPoint

Foundry's IronPoint family of wireless products provides a complete solution for current and future enterprise mobility requirements. For best-in-class wireless VoIP performance and high density deployments, Foundry offers the IronPoint Mobility Series of controllers and access points. To protect enterprise networks from wireless security threats such as rogue access points and unauthorized users, the IronPoint Wireless Location Manager provides real-time, location mapping of all wireless devices. For a feature-rich and cost-effective solution, the IronPoint 250 Access Point allows enterprise networks to quickly and easily enable safe and secure wireless access. The IronPoint 250 Access Point can also be connected to the FES-IronPoint Wireless Switch for enhanced management, mobility and security.

IronView

Foundry's IronView Network Manager (INM) provides network administrators and operators with tools to ease the configuration and management of enterprise and service provider networks. INM can manage all of Foundry's award winning wired and wireless switches, routers, traffic management solutions, and security products. Delivered on industry standard Windows, Linux, and Solaris operating systems; INM is scalable enough to handle large networks, and flexible enough to provide value for small and medium sized organizations. INM also delivers a number of security and reporting tools to help insure the reliability, performance, and security of the network infrastructure.

NetIron

The NetIron product family provides unparalleled, wire-speed performance for IP/MPLS routing and switching combined with advanced packet processing and traffic management capabilities. Based on robust, high availability system architectures, these routers are designed to meet the current and future needs of converged networks. The routers offer a variety of form factors, capacities, and interface options to meet the expanding needs of service providers and high end enterprises. The latest additions to the NetIron router family are the NetIron XMR Series routers, NetIron MLX Series routers, and the NetIron M2404 metro access switches. 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 provides advanced service delivery capabilities for metro networks, large enterprises, and High Performance Computing environments. The NetIron M2404 MPLS metro access switches are powerful enablers of cost-effective, edge-to-edge, MPLS-based and Metro Ethernet-based service delivery. Powered by the feature-rich Multi-Service IronWare operating system, the NetIron product family allows network operators to rapidly grow their subscriber base and service reach, incrementally add innovative services, while dramatically lowering total cost of ownership.

SecureIron

Foundry's SecureIron solution is designed to deliver application level intelligence and security protection throughout the enterprise network, including at the network perimeter and inside the LAN. The solution consists of two distinct product families 1) SecureIron perimeter traffic managers for security augmentation and traffic optimization at the enterprise perimeter and 2) SecureIron LAN switches for inside the LAN protection against emerging threats from within the enterprise network from malicious users and machines.

The SecureIron family of products is the first-of-a-kind to embed security features into the network switch for total integration of security into the infrastructure throughout the enterprise. The switches feature Layer 2 through Layer 7 intelligence to protect against many forms of network and application level attacks at multi-gigabit speeds to deliver unparalleled security performance at LAN rates. At the perimeter, the SecureIron traffic managers deliver critical security augmentation to traditional firewalls and optimize application performance by maximizing utilization of ISP WAN bandwidth and firewall capacity with advanced traffic management features.

ServerIron

Foundry's ServerIron family of application delivery and traffic management switches is the industry leader in high availability, acceleration, security and scalability for business-critical IP, Web and VoIP applications. The ServerIron provides a total solution for server load balancing, application (Layer 7) switching, server farm and application security, SSL acceleration, compression, and multi-site redundancy. The ServerIron products are almost exclusively used by over 2,000 of the world's most demanding organizations.

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