SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Foundry Networks®, Inc. (Nasdaq: FDRY - News), a performance and total solutions leader for end-to-end switching and routing, today announced new products and features for its IronPoint® wireless LAN (WLAN) solutions including a new RF monitor and RF management application, major feature enhancements to its multi-mode 802.11a/g/b IronPoint Access Points, a new software WLAN upgrade package for its FastIron® Edge switches, and an updated version of IronView® WLAN Network Manager, in a concerted effort to provide simplified, centrally managed and scaleable enterprise wireless deployments. The new products, features and software releases represent significant enhancements to Foundry's integrated wired/wireless offerings, already deployed by numerous large organizations around the world, and strengthen Foundry's leadership position in providing complete network solutions for organizations looking to extend their network infrastructure with high-performance, enterprise-class secure wireless solutions.

"Now that issues such as wireless security have been more or less overcome, enterprises are increasingly looking at wireless as an everyday augmentation to the wired network, and in the next year we will see new higher-speed WLAN standards and other developments that will make elegant integration of the wired/wireless infrastructure and network performance increasingly important," said Zeus Kerravala, vice president of research at the Yankee Group. "Ease of management, long-term cost of ownership, and scalability are equally important with or without the wires."

Foundry Networks Inc.