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Foundry Networks — Thu, 29 May 2008 21:29:00 GMT

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Foundry Case Studies

Foundry Networks — Thu, 29 May 2008 21:28:00 GMT

Customers worldwide rely on Foundry Networks to provide high-performance enterprise and service provider switching, routing, security, and application traffic management products and solutions. Read our case studies to learn more about our successful solutions.

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Foundry Partners

Foundry Networks — Thu, 29 May 2008 21:26:00 GMT

Foundry's reputation for innovating high-performance networking solutions that address the needs and requirements of today and tomorrow's network infrastructures presents a unique opportunity for Foundry partners. Our comprehensive suite of products and support services can help you build a robust, scalable and highly-available network infrastructure for the expanding and evolving needs of your clients. Our products incorporate the latest in switch design, advanced network processor technology, rich feature sets, network-wide security, scalable architectures, and award winning customer support to deliver network solutions that are cost effective, secure, and convergence ready.

As customer needs continue to become increasingly demanding and complex, partnering with an industry leader like Foundry Networks can significantly add to customer value through joint solutions and team selling. Partnering with Foundry can expand your market coverage, increase incremental sales, strengthen competitive strategy, as well as leverage one another's technical and marketing expertise.

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Foundry Literature & Solutions

Foundry Networks — Thu, 29 May 2008 21:24:00 GMT

Foundry's best-of-breed solutions help enterprises and service providers build an IronClad Broadband IP infrastructure, laying the foundation for next-generation applications. Foundry's solutions help you to gain competitive advantage in your business, and ensure a network that scales with your business. Foundry's solutions include the following: Enterprise & Mobility, Service Provider, Application Switching, and Security.

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Foundry Product Family Information

Foundry Networks — Thu, 29 May 2008 21:23:00 GMT

Foundry offers a complete line of high-performance enterprise and service provider switching, routing, and 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. Our products are designed to provide industry-leading features, performance, reliability, and scalability for a wide range of infrastructure deployments including Enterprise, wiring closet, LAN backbone, data center, server farm, and metropolitan area networks.

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Foundry Newsroom

Foundry Networks — Thu, 29 May 2008 21:14:00 GMT

As a leading provider of high-performance enterprise and service provider switching, routing, security, and Web traffic management solutions, Foundry Networks is regularly making headlines. Within this section, customers, media professionals and industry analysts can find Foundry media contacts, product information, and current and archived press releases.

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Leveraging the Advantages of a Multi-vendor Network Strategy

Foundry Networks — Tue, 27 May 2008 23:14:00 GMT

Overview

Today’s enterprise network provides more than simply a technology infrastructure. It’s an enabler for the enterprise, supporting mission critical applications, creating operational efficiencies and increasing productivity gains. While the infrastructure provides the very foundation for the organization and its initiatives, the business strategy must drive the development of the enterprise network, ensuring it supports today’s requirements while evolving to meet tomorrow’s demands.

A multi‐vendor network strategy supports the idea that in order to truly align the enterprise infrastructure strategy with business requirements, organizations must be free to choose the solutions that best meet their unique needs and based upon open standards, not proprietary, closed systems. Business imperatives and strategy should drive network infrastructure strategy, not the other way around.

‐vendor network strategy supports the idea that in order to truly align the enterprise infrastructure strategy with business requirements, organizations must be free to choose the solutions that best meet their unique needs and based upon open standards, not proprietary, closed systems. Business imperatives and strategy should drive network infrastructure strategy, not the other way around.

Advantages of a Multi-vendor Network Strategy-The Power of Choice

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Foundry Networks Joins The Interop Vendor Alliance To Enhance Its Best-Of-Breed Networking Solutions With Microsoft Systems

Foundry Networks — Tue, 27 May 2008 23:05:00 GMT

Collaboration Promotes Stronger Relationship with Microsoft and Alliance Members to Simplify Interoperability and Enhance ROI with Customers Implementing Microsoft and Foundry

SANTA CLARA, Calif. and REDMOND, Wash. – (April 22, 2008) – Foundry Networks®, Inc. (NASDAQ: FDRY), a performance and total solutions leader for end-to-end switching and routing, today announced it has joined Microsoft and other technology leaders in the Interop Vendor Alliance (IVA). Foundry™ will take the opportunity to join a leading cross-industry consortium dedicated to interoperability in order to enhance return on investment (ROI) and simplify the integration and management of diverse environments for customers using Microsoft systems and Foundry's networking solutions. The alliance will allow Foundry to enhance the interoperability of its industry-leading networking products with fellow technology leaders dedicated to high-performance multi-vendor IT infrastructures.

"We look forward to working closely with Foundry Networks as part of the cross-industry Interop Vendor Alliance," said Bruce Burns, senior director, Strategic Relations, Microsoft. "As a leading edge-to-core networking solutions vendor, Foundry will be a welcome addition to the alliance going forward. The IVA provides a framework and a collaborative forum for Foundry to work with Microsoft and other members to test and communicate best practices for seamless interoperability of mixed IT infrastructures in customer environments."

Established in 2006, the goal of the IVA is to foster interoperability across IT systems through communications and identification of opportunities for enhanced collaboration. The alliance encourages vendor cooperation to solve customer interoperability challenges through scenario-based testing. Interoperability lab results are published on the IVA Web site, helping customers and vendors reduce cost and complexity in heterogeneous environments.

"With our active participation and membership in the Interop Vendor Alliance, Foundry Networks underscores its long-standing commitment to interoperability and open standards," said Bob Schiff, vice president and general manager for Foundry's Enterprise Business Unit. "As enterprises extend the capabilities and performance of their networks and IT infrastructure, it is crucial that customers using Microsoft systems and Foundry networking solutions be assured of interoperability in order to maximize the performance, reliability and manageability of their best-of-breed IT environments. We look forward to working with Microsoft and the Interop Vendor Alliance to clearly verify and demonstrate to our customers the technical and business advantages of multi-vendor solutions."

For more information about the Interop Vendor Alliance, please visit www.interopvendoralliance.org.

About the Interop Vendor Alliance

Formed in 2006, the Interop Vendor Alliance is an industry-wide group working to identify and share opportunities to better connect people, data and diverse systems through better interoperability with Microsoft systems. Additional information about the Interop Vendor Alliance can be found on its Web site at http://www.interopvendoralliance.org.

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 routers 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 www.foundrynet.com.

Foundry Networks Announces NAP Interoperability For Microsoft Windows Server 2008 And Windows Vista

Foundry Networks — Tue, 27 May 2008 23:00:00 GMT

Microsoft Network Access Protection and Standards-Based 802.1x Security Solution for Joint Customers Eases and Improves Network Security Management

SANTA CLARA, Calif. and LOS ANGELES – (Feb. 27, 2008) – Foundry Networks®, Inc. (NASDAQ: FDRY), a performance and total solutions leader for end-to-end switching and routing, today announced that its Layer 2/3 10 gigabit Ethernet-ready switches deliver Network Access Protection (NAP) interoperability with Microsoft Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista . Foundry™ will be promoting Windows Server 2008 interoperability and standards-based 802.1x security, as well as support of other key Microsoft products and initiatives at Microsoft's "Heroes Happen Here" launch event at the Los Angeles Convention Center. Foundry will be joining the worldwide launch and rollout of Windows Server 2008, Visual Studio 2008, and SQL Server 2008 at the kickoff in Los Angeles on Feb. 27, 2008, as well as a following event in Washington, D.C. on March 25, 2008.

Foundry's FastIron® family of switches are now validated to operate in conjunction with Microsoft Windows-based clients and the Microsoft Network Policy Server (NPS) to manage policies that restrict unauthorized client access to network resources based on the health of the system, providing network administrators with an easy-to-manage security solution. By marrying 802.1x, a standardized security authentication method for IEEE 802-based network technologies, and sFlow®, an industry standard technology for monitoring networks, as part of Foundry's IronShield™ 360 Security solution, customers of Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista can significantly reduce deployment and operational costs when securing endpoint resources using NAP interoperability with Foundry switches. Network administrators have complete real-time visibility and accounting into the network enabling them to monitor individual user history, behavior patterns and network resource usage in order to thwart potential attacks. Joint customers of Microsoft and Foundry now have a standards-based tool for validating client health and securing network access without resorting to costly and potentially less effective proprietary networking technologies.

"Today's IT customers are looking for increased dependability, scalability and security features," said Ward Ralston, group technical product manager for Windows Server Marketing at Microsoft Corp. "With FastIron built on Windows Server 2008, customers can achieve a highly reliable infrastructure for their business-critical applications."

The integral component collectively interlocking this security solution is the Foundry IronShield 360 Security solution, which brings together open, interoperable and best-of-breed security solutions to complement a comprehensive suite of award-winning Foundry networking platforms. The IronShield 360 Security solution provides multiple levels of network security, both at the perimeter, inside the LAN, and in the data center. The foundation of IronShield 360 Security is a reliable, robust and high-performance architecture, with wire-speed switching, security, and advanced sFlow sensor support. The IronShield 360 Network Security model provides secure device, network and service protection to verify that all network resources are healthy and operating at maximum effectiveness.

"Together with Microsoft Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista, Foundry's IronShield 360 Security solution is focused on providing our joint customers with the highest level of security for their networking environments," said Ezra Yosef, director of business development for Foundry Networks. "By delivering interoperability between Foundry switches, Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista, customers have a complete NAP solution to protect their network users and resources from potential threats. This important milestone reaffirms Foundry's efforts to deliver on its network security and interoperability commitments."

For more information on the "Heroes Happen Here" launch, please visit www.microsoft.com/heroeshappenhere.

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Solution Brief: Deliver The Benefits Of Unified Communications

Foundry Networks — Tue, 27 May 2008 22:44:00 GMT

Foundry Networks, Microsoft, Sun Microsystems, and Mitel, come together to deliver the benefits of unified communications

The integrated solution improves application delivery and interoperability across wide enterprises, converging rich voice and data applications on a single network and offering the ability to leverage Office Communication Server across heterogeneous systems and devices.

The Challenge

Leveraging an IP infrastructure and enterprise communications system simplifies communications

by bringing them all into a single network, creating common interfaces, shared tools,

and single points of contact for customers, employees and others. Often barriers to large scale

unified communications deployments don’t allow enterprises to take advantage of the bottom

line and productivity enhancing benefits a single communications infrastructure and unified

solution delivers. Ensuring application security, performance and manageability while increasing

mobility and delivering a cost effective and consistent desktop and voice experience wherever

users need access to the network can challenge even the most ambitious enterprises.

Download the full PDF version: http://www.foundrynet.com/pdf/pb-msft-mitel-sun.pdf

Solution Brief: Microsoft NAP and Foundry Networks

Foundry Networks — Tue, 27 May 2008 21:31:00 GMT

The Challenge:

The proliferation of viruses and the threats they pose to enterprise networks makes the

presence of antivirus software a network mandate. But even antivirus software is only

as good as the timely installation of operating system updates, which can be a time and

resource consuming challenge. Networks can be compromised when a computer requesting

access to a network, or a device operating on the network, fails to meet the necessary health

policy to prevent threats from propagating, such as operating system or antivirus updates.

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