Foundry Wins Network World's "Best of Tests" Award
BigIron 4000 Layer 3 Switch Excels in Performance Evaluations
San Jose, Calif. - November 14, 2000 - <%=company%> (NASDAQ: FDRY), a leader in high-performance, end-to-end switching and routing solutions, today announced that Foundry's BigIron 4000 Layer 3 switch was awarded Network World's distinguished "Best of the Tests" Award in the Enterprise Switch category based on its performance and feature set.
The Network World "Best of the Tests" designation goes to the top enterprise network hardware and software products that have gone through a rigorous, hands-on testing by Network World's Global Test Alliance members and independent product reviewers. "We are proud to be the premier source of objective, authoritative reviews in the networking marketplace," stated Christine Burns, Test Alliance Director. "Network World's Global Test Alliance comprises more than a dozen of the most qualified industry experts, network integrators and University labs who have tested these products to ascertain their worth in enterprise networks."
Over the past 12 months, Network World's editorial staff conducted extensive tests on 239 products in 16 categories. Foundry's BigIron 4000 received the top score in the Switches category earning it the "Best of the Tests" distinction. "We found the Foundry box to have all the components and capabilities that a network administrator would desire in a switch," said Ron Kovac, research associate at Ball State University.
Delivering up to 480 Gbps of backplane switching capacity, Foundry's BigIron chassis-based IP router dramatically improves performance bottlenecks with wire-speed IP routing. Foundry's Internet optical networking solutions are aimed specifically at satisfying the exploding bandwidth requirements of fast-growing companies.
Based on Foundry's unique IronCore architecture and IronWare Internet scale routing platform, the BigIron delivers up to 178,000,000 packets per second routing performance for reliable packet delivery even under the heaviest of Internet traffic loads.