SANTA CLARA, Calif., Oct. 19, 2006 (PRIMEZONE) -- Foundry Networks, Inc. (Nasdaq:FDRY), a performance and total solutions leader for end-to-end switching and routing, today announced that PIPE Networks selected the NetIron MLX Series of MPLS-enabled metro routers for its first national Voice over IP (VoIP) Peering Network. The NetIron MLX Series offers network planners a rich set of high-performance IPv4, IPv6, MPLS, and Multi-VRF capabilities as well as advanced Layer 2 switching capabilities that will enable PIPE Networks to provide their VoIP customers with the best quality of service (QoS) and performance available.
PIPE VoIP Exchange (PVX) is Australia's first commercial VoIP peering service. The new independent network allows VoIP providers to directly interconnect VoIP calls with other PVX clients, thereby reducing interconnection costs and increasing performance for VoIP providers. The PVX will provide real-time connection information, including call quality and billing information, back to VoIP providers to facilitate with billing and other activities. PIPE Networks selected the NetIron MLX Series to take advantage of its best-in-class performance levels, highly available architecture with redundant management modules, switch fabric, power supplies, fans and hitless management failover.
Designed to enable reliable converged infrastructures and support mission-critical applications, the NetIron MLX Series features advanced N+1 redundant switch fabric architecture for high availability. The architecture ensures that the system continues to operate at peak performance even in the unlikely event of a switch fabric card failure. The redundant fabric architecture is complemented by comprehensive hardware redundancy for the management modules, power supplies and cooling system. In addition, the Multi-Service IronWare operating system, powering the NetIron MLX Series, offers hitless management failover with Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) and OSPF graceful restart capabilities, as well as hitless (in-service) software upgrades to further enhance system availability and overall network availability.
"We selected Foundry's NetIron MLX Series platform over other competitor solutions because of the performance, availability, redundancy and compelling total cost of ownership," said Stephen Baxter, executive director and chief technology officer, PIPE Networks. "It met all our requirements allowing us to build a resilient and high-performance national network to trunk calls seamlessly between the cities."
"The NetIron MLX Series routers are purpose-built for bandwidth-intensive and QoS-sensitive applications such as VoIP, IPTV, and Video on Demand," said Ken Cheng, vice president and general manager, High End and Service Provider Systems Business Unit for Foundry Networks. "Being selected by PIPE Networks for its VoIP Peering Network reaffirms Foundry's leadership in providing high performance and highly reliable network solutions to service providers worldwide."
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, access routers and metro routers. Foundry's 10,000 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.
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About PIPE Networks
As winners of the 2006 Australian Telecommunications User Group award for "Carrier of the Year," PIPE Networks is a rapidly growing Australian network infrastructure provider, operating in the Business segment of the telecommunications market.
PIPE offers an extensive fiber optic cable network and Internet Exchange and VoIP peering services to corporate Australia. Specializing in Point to Point Dark Fiber connections to the Corporate & Government market, PIPE enables its customers with the ability to design their own Wide Area Network -- putting their business in full control of its telecommunications needs.
The company has evolved with customer needs, delivering a growing mix of services, from Dark Fiber leasing, Internet Exchange, Co-location, Telehousing and VoIP Peering. PIPE currently operates 480,000 meters of fiber optic-based network, servicing the CBDs and certain metropolitan areas of Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane, with over 400 major commercial buildings currently "on-net."
PIPE's motto is Freedom, Performance, Security. PIPE allows customers the freedom to select their technology of choice and run any protocol over its fiber network. Unsurpassed performance is enabled by the near limitless capacity of the PIPE fiber network, giving customers the ability to make their own networks as fast as their business can handle. Maximum security is achieved through a dedicated point to point link; no hubbing or unnecessary routing makes the PIPE fiber network comply with the most stringent security requirements of its customers' business.