SANTA CLARA, Calif. and LOS ANGELES, Sept. 7, 2007 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- Foundry Networks(r), Inc. (Nasdaq:FDRY), a performance and total solutions leader for end-to-end switching and routing, today announced that the company will be a key participant in the first-annual Green Technology World Conference in Los Angeles. Bill Ryan, senior product manager for Foundry's High-End and Service Provider Systems Business Unit, will participate in a roundtable discussion session, "The Greening of the Data Center," at 3:15 p.m. PDT on Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2007. The 45-minute session will take place in Petree Hall D of the Los Angeles Convention Center.
Environmentally friendly technology and design are a priority for Foundry since being green is both beneficial for the environment and businesses' bottom line. Foundry introduced the next generation high-end data center switch, the BigIron(r) RX-32, the NetIron(r) MLX metro router and XMR Internet router, to lessen the impact on the environment and reduce customer capital and operational expenditures (OpEx). As the Internet and the converged network become an even greater part of everyday life, the performance and efficiency of networking hardware will become more critical.
According to research firm Gartner, by next year about half of the world's data centers will be functionally obsolete due to insufficient power and cooling capacity to meet the demands of high-density equipment. To address this issue and minimize ongoing operational expenditures in data centers, high performance computing, and lnternet exchange points, Foundry's BigIron RX, NetIron MLX and XMR product families excel in three key areas: performance, efficient system cooling and significantly lower overall power consumption. Purpose built to alleviate OpEx by significantly reducing valuable rack space and power consumption when compared to multi-chassis designs and competing products, these products use a fraction of the power of competing multi-chassis platforms making them ideal high-performance networking solutions for space and energy constrained environments.
Mr. Ryan will participate in a special roundtable discussion featuring select industry thought leaders and moderated by Greg Galitzine, group editorial director for TMCnet's IP Communications Group. The roundtable will feature technical and engineering considerations for next generation data centers that will allow peak efficiency while reducing energy consumption and long-term operating costs.
Targeted for data centers, a single BigIron RX-32 with 1,536 wire-speed 10/100/100 ports will consume only 8.74 kilowatts per Gigabits per second of power, whereas competitive solutions can require multi-stage configurations consuming approximately 65 percent more power, consequently increasing power and cooling costs. Power efficiency is achieved using an advanced and highly efficient design, allowing the BigIron RX-32 to produce industry-leading performance results with less power hungry chip-sets and ASICS, within a single chassis, eliminating the costly overhead associated with multiple chassis solutions.
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 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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