Product/Service

BigIron Layer 3 Switches

Source: Foundry Networks, Inc.
Foundry Networks' award-winning BigIron product family, including the four-slot BigIron 4000
  • Modular, Chassis-Based Layer 3 switches for Campus, MAN and LAN/WAN Environments
  • Delivers up to 120 Gigabit Ethernet Ports and 178,000,000 pps Non-blocking Performance
  • Provides Hardware-Based Layer 2/3/4 Switching, Multi-
  • Protocol Routing, VRRP/VRRPE Redundancy, over 2,000,000 BGP4 Routes and Packet over SONET
  • Includes Dynamic Policy-based VLANs, 8 Levels of QoS, Server Multi-Homing, 802.3ad Link Aggregation, Inter-Switch Trunk Groups and Full IP Multicast Support
  • Gigabit Ethernet links up to 150 km
  • 10 Gigabit Ready for Full Investment Protection

BigIron Layer 3 Switches
Foundry Networks' award-winning BigIron product family, including the four-slot BigIron 4000, eight-slot BigIron 8000 chassis, and 15-slot BigIron 15000 delivers a new level of high-performance capabilities for enterprise and service provider networks. BigIron's unique IronCore ASIC architecture delivers hardware-based distributed switching and routing that increases the availability of network bandwidth to accommodate the next generation of applications based on data and voice integration, multicast-based video, and other emerging technologies.

By providing high performance throughput from the wiring closet into the data center and out to the edge of the WAN, BigIron's non-blocking architecture enables network managers to build scalable and highly available network designs. BigIron delivers the industry leading performance, price/performance and high-density 10/100/1000 Mbps connectivity. BigIron is also the only chassis that has been 10 Gigabit Ethernet ready since the day it started shipping in 1998.

Foundry Networks, Inc., 680 West Maude Avenue, Suite 3, Sunnyvale, CA 94086. Tel: 888-TURBOLAN; Fax: 408-731-3899.