SANTA CLARA, Calif. and AMSTERDAM, Netherlands, Jan. 17, 2007 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- Foundry Networks, Inc. (Nasdaq:FDRY), a performance and total solutions leader for end-to-end switching and routing, today announced that its award-winning BigIron(r) RX series of Ethernet switches enabled the Amsterdam Internet Exchange (AMS-IX), the world's largest public Internet exchange, to reach Internet traffic throughput in excess of 230 Gigabits per second (Gbps). AMS-IX connects IP networks for more than 250 Internet Service Providers and carriers worldwide.
A pioneer in utilizing industry-leading high-capacity switches, AMS-IX's exponential growth rate requires increasingly greater switching capacity. Already the world's largest public peering Internet exchange in terms of bandwidth, clients, applications and switch ports, the exchange continues to grow significantly every month. To accommodate their continued traffic growth and protect their extensive infrastructure investment, AMS-IX determined that the performance, application convergence capabilities, consistent non-stop operation, and scalability of the Foundry BigIron RX-16 10-Gigabit Ethernet (10-GbE) switch made it the best available solution for their demanding throughput and scalability requirements.
"AMS-IX hit a historical milestone in November when traffic flowing across our infrastructure exceeded 200Gbps," said Henk Steenman, chief technical officer for AMS-IX. "The ease of migration between Foundry products to support this growth, combined with the service and support received by Foundry Networks has been a vital factor in our success."
Statistics show that AMS-IX average peak-traffic growth over the last four years has increased 100 percent per year, essentially doubling year-over-year. This past December, the monthly volume of traffic carried by AMS-IX increased three percent to 1.5 Petabyte a day, approximately 1500 terabytes.
AMS-IX services its members from four independent co-locations in Amsterdam. All four co-locations are currently equipped with Foundry BigIron switches in a double 'star' topology. To accommodate the increased overall switching volume and demand for high bandwidth interfaces, AMS-IX added the BigIron RX-16 Ethernet switches to two of its four locations. Each BigIron RX-16 has a switching capacity of up to 1.536 terabits per second and will ultimately be configured with 64 10-GbE ports interconnecting the edge switches as well as providing 10-GbE member connections.
"The AMS-IX network services many of the world's premier service providers and it's clear they set the standard in performance, capacity and service in Internet peering," said Ken Cheng, vice president and general manager for Foundry's High-End and Service Provider Systems Business Unit. "We are pleased to see the BigIron RX 10-GbE switch series live up to customer expectations and beyond by consistently offering a compelling and powerful solution for service provider and enterprise customers requiring future-ready solutions for high-performance, high density and high availability network infrastructures."
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 10,400 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.foundrynetworks.com.
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About AMS-IX
AMS-IX (Amsterdam Internet Exchange) is a neutral and independent not-for-profit Internet exchange providing services since the early 1990's. AMS-IX is one of the largest Internet hubs worldwide, where over 250 Internet related parties come together to exchange Internet traffic amongst them. The AMS-IX platform provides high quality, non-blocking professional peering services for all types of IP traffic whether regular data, video or VoIP. AMS-IX additionally hosts the first mobile peering points worldwide, the Global GPRS Roaming Exchange (GRX) and the Mobile Data Exchange (MDX), as well as solutions for broadcasting with the multicast peering service. (www.ams-ix.net)