Foundry Picked for Japanese 10G

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Foundry Networks®, Inc. (Nasdaq: FDRY - News), a leading provider of high-performance enterprise and service provider switching, routing and Web traffic management solutions, and Bussan Networks K.K., a Foundry distributor in Japan, today announced a major capacity addition to Japan's largest Internet exchange, WIDE (Widely Integrated Distributed Environments).Wide, a project operating Japan's major Internet exchanges, has deployed Foundry's 10-Gigabit Ethernet solution using Foundry's BigIron® 15000 Layer 3 Backbone Switch to dramatically improve network performance and throughput for its customers."Our decision to introduce a 10-Gigabit Ethernet solution was to support broadband contents centering around data centers," said Professor Jun Murai, faculty member of Environmental Information at Keio University and WIDE Representative. "Foundry's 10-Gigabit Ethernet is a solution based on IEEE 802.3ae, the industry standard, and our migration from the existing system was smooth requiring only additional 10-Gigabit Ethernet modules," continued Murai.The WIDE Project operates a number of Japan's major Internet exchanges including NSPIXP-2. More than 60 major Japanese Internet Service Providers (ISPs) are connected to NSPIXP-2. WIDE deployed Foundry's 10-Gigabit Ethernet solution to improve the performance between Internet exchange core and other top tier one Japanese carriers.Foundry Networks Inc.