Foundry Networks' Internet Routers Power Scinet Conference Network At SC2000
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Dallas, TX - November 8, 2000 - <%=company%> (NASDAQ: FDRY), a leader in high-performance, end-to-end switching and routing solutions, today announced that its NetIron800 Internet routers will power the massive SCinet conference network at the high-performance computing and networking SC2000 show that runs November 4-10, 2000 at the Dallas Convention Center.
SC2000 is a major annual event that brings together scientists, engineers, designers, managers, educators, and executives from all areas of high-performance computing and networking and the global information infrastructure.
SC2000 is utilizing Foundry's NetIron800 to provide high-speed routing capacity, as well as increased scalability and reliability at the core of its SCinet network. Foundry's NetIron Internet routers dramatically reduce performance bottlenecks with wire-speed IP routing, robust BGP4 support (including BGP4 Load Sharing, Route Reflection, AS Confederation and Route Flap Dampening).
The NetIron family of Internet backbone routers will support wire-speed IP routing for all ports and up to an industry-leading 172,000,000 packets per second and scalability to more than two million routes and hundreds of Internet peers. The tremendous performance enhancement will enable exhibitors to demonstrate advanced bandwidth-intensive applications.
"Our industry-leading Internet routers are used in the world's largest and fastest growing networks to deliver the significant stability and bandwidth requirements for running next generation applications," said Bobby Johnson, president and CEO of Foundry Networks. "Foundry continues to provide best-of-breed solutions, offering a complete end-to-end high performance network infrastructure for customers, who require complete, highly available, highly scalable and industry-leading price/performance network solutions."