SANTA CLARA, Calif. and ST. LOUIS -- Foundry Networks(r), Inc. (NasdaqGS:FDRY - News), a performance and total solutions leader for end-to-end switching and routing, today announced that GameRail installed Foundry Networks' NetIron(r) XMR 4000 multi-service backbone routers to power North America's only high performance and low latency private online gaming network targeting serious members of the Web gaming community. Leveraging the NetIron XMR's performance and robust MultiProtocol Label Switching (MPLS) capabilities, GameRail is able to offer an affordable paid subscription service that offers fewer routing hops, increased response times and considerably lower latency to gamers than those using the public Internet exclusively.

According to DFC Intelligence, the online game market is expected to grow to $13 billion by 2012 and the total overall number of online gamers in the 20 leading online gaming countries is expected to increase 51 percent from 2006 to 2012, making the need for a high performance gaming network imminent. GameRail turned to Foundry Networks and their highly reliable NetIron XMR multi-service backbone routers to power their core network performance. Deploying eight NetIron XMR 4000 routers throughout their network, GameRail used their robust performance and extensive MPLS capabilities to provide superior response and latency times to their online clients. By utilizing the NetIron XMR's MPLS features, the GameRail network benefits from simplified packet forwarding, traffic engineering, network scalability, Quality of Service (QoS), and Differentiated Services.

Consequently, GameRail's customers minimize using the public Internet and its inherent bottlenecks; instead their delay-sensitive traffic is transmitted over a network path with minimal hops, lower congestion and controlled by cold-potato routing, which results in lower latency, less jitter, and minimal packet loss. Using GameRail's network, online gaming customers have seen their average latency rates reduced by 30 percent and local latency reductions by over 75 percent versus players using the public Internet. These significant reductions in latency and increased response appeal to players who engage in bandwidth demanding online action and quest games with multi-players that require lightning quick responses.

``GameRail is focused on improving the performance of online gaming by developing a high performance network for serious online gamers,'' said John Alden, vice president of Business Development for GameRail. ``We chose Foundry's NetIron XMR multi-service backbone routers to power our network because they offered us unmatched performance, reliability and scalability with the advantages of MPLS -- which is crucial to maximize the experience of our serious gaming clientele and to the success and future expansion of our growing network.''

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