Foundry Networks Honored with 2008 'Best of Interop' Green Award
Foundry Selected as Being Most Green from More Than 200 Submissions
LAS VEGAS and SANTA CLARA, Calif. – (April 30, 2008) – Foundry Networks®, Inc. (NASDAQ: FDRY), a performance and total solutions leader for end-to-end switching and routing, today announced it has been selected by InformationWeek, the leading multimedia business technology brand, and Interop, the leading global business technology event series, for the
‘Best of Interop’ Green Award. Selected from more than 200 submissions in all Best of Interop categories, Foundry Networks was singled out for its ability to deliver industry-leading performance while minimizing power, space and cooling consumption in its switching, routing and application delivery controller (ADC) product set and solutions.
Foundry's™ networking solutions address these critical green issues head-on by delivering highly dense, scalable and power efficient solutions to enable greater flexibility and capabilities for organizations worldwide.
As the winner of the 2008 Best of Interop Green Award, Foundry was hand-selected by InformationWeek's panel of expert judges. Each year, Best of Interop winners prove to be the key players in the continuing evolution of business technology. The Best of Interop Awards are designed to help IT and network managers shorten the evaluation process in assessing new technology products. By identifying innovative products debuted at Interop,
the Best of Interop Awards assist in the search for creative solutions.
"The 2008 winner of the Best of Interop Green Award, Foundry Networks, has adopted an eco-friendly approach to their products," said Art Wittmann, editor for InformationWeek. "We congratulate Foundry Networks for leading the way in green computing."
"The 2008 winner of the Best of Interop Green Award, Foundry Networks, has adopted an eco-friendly approach to their products," said Art Wittmann, editor for InformationWeek. "We congratulate Foundry Networks for leading the way in green computing."
As part of Foundry’s ongoing efforts to advance the greener, next-generation data center, the new interface modules for the BigIron® RX Series switches and the NetIron® MLX Series routers will deliver the industry's highest 10 gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) and gigabit Ethernet (GbE) density of up to 512 ports of 10GbE and 1536 ports of GbE in a single system while also dramatically reducing power per actual gigabit of performance.
The BigIron 16-port 10GbE SFP+ module (RX-BI16XG), and NetIron MLX 48-port GbE MRJ21 module (NI-MLX-1Gx48-T) deliver exceptional flexibility and scalability for advanced data centers and high-performance computing (HPC) applications[1]. With these new high-density interface modules, the BigIron RX Series switches and NetIron MLX Series routers now deliver more than twice the 10GbE and GbE density of their nearest competitors. Organizations can be confident that data center expansion and HPC growth will be manageable and environmentally friendly through
Foundry's industry-leading routers and switches and intelligent best-of-breed networking solutions.
“We are honored to take home the Best of Interop Green Award,” said Bobby Johnson, president and chief executive officer for Foundry Networks. “Our focus on engineering leadership has allowed Foundry to create powerful high-performance networks with increased density and energy efficient attributes that enable businesses to grow effectively within the capital constraints and environmental issues facing enterprises and service providers today. With more than 200 other submissions to select from, receiving the Best of Interop Green Award is a testament to Foundry’s ongoing focus on innovation and edge-to-core solutions.”
[1] RX-BI16XG Module general availability in August 2008
NI-MLX-1Gx48-T Module general availability in Q4 2008
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About Foundry Networks
Foundry Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: FDRY) is a leading provider of high-performance enterprise and service provider switching, routing, security and Web traffic management solutions, including Layer 2/3 LAN switches, Layer 3 Backbone switches, Layer 4-7 application switches, wireless LAN and access points, metro and core routers. Foundry's customers include the world's premier ISPs, metro service providers, and enterprises, including e-commerce sites, universities, entertainment, health and wellness, government, financial and manufacturing companies. For more information about the company and its products, call 1.888.TURBOLAN or visit
http://www.foundrynet.com/.
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