SANTA CLARA, Calif. and NEW YORK, Oct. 17, 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 it will participate in three sessions at Interop New York 2007. The first two sessions will focus on the importance and optimization of application delivery and the third will discuss the advantages and benefits of intelligent open convergence. In addition to the speaking sessions, Foundry will be exhibiting in Booth 229. Interop will take place from Oct. 22 to 26, 2007 at the Javits Center in New York.
The two sessions, "Application Front Ends (AFEs)" and "Securing, Accelerating, and Optimizing Application Delivery," will focus on the importance and implementation of application security, acceleration, delivery and switching in the enterprise with Foundry's Ron Mitra, product marketing manager. The third session, "Creating Competitive Advantage through Intelligent Open Convergence" with Foundry's Franchesca Walker, director of Enterprise Solutions, will identify the networking foundation and application components to enable intelligent convergence and highlight ways organizations are benefitting from their converged infrastructure.
Session: "Application Front Ends (AFEs)" Participant: Ron Mitra, product marketing manager, Application Delivery and Security Products, Foundry Networks Time & Date: 10:45 a.m - 12:00 p.m. EDT, Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2007 Location: Room 1E10, the Javits Center, New York Session: "Securing, Accelerating, and Optimizing Application Delivery" Speaker: Ron Mitra, product marketing manager, Application Delivery and Security Products, Foundry Networks Time & Date: 1:45 p.m - 2:30 p.m. EDT, Thursday, Oct. 25, 2007 Location: Room 3D02, the Javits Center, New York Session: "Creating Competitive Advantage through Intelligent Open Convergence" Speaker: Franchesca Walker, director of Enterprise Solutions, Foundry Networks Time & Date: 10:45 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. EDT, Thursday, Oct. 25, 2007 Location: Room 3D04, the Javits Center, New York
Today, enterprises are using application delivery and converged voice and data networks as strategic assets to improve business productivity, speed customer responsiveness, reduce operational costs and enable new applications and processes that create competitive differentiation. Foundry's ServerIron(r) family of application delivery and traffic management switches are industry leaders in high availability, acceleration, security and scalability for business-critical IP, Web and Voice over IP (VoIP) applications. The ServerIron family provides a total solution for server load balancing, application (Layer 7) switching, server farm and application security, SSL acceleration, compression, and multi-site redundancy.
In addition to the benefits of application delivery, intelligent convergence ties communications applications to enterprise processes, transforming how a business manages critical events, improving operational efficiency and creating a more agile and responsive organization. Foundry offers a complete networking foundation needed to enable application delivery and intelligent convergence and the benefits of integrated communications and business processes built upon an open and standards-based VoIP infrastructure.
For more information, please visit Foundry at Interop in Booth 229 or www.foundrynet.com.
About Interop
Interop drives the adoption of technology, providing knowledge and insight to help IT and corporate decision-makers achieve business success. Part of CMP Technology's family of global brands, Interop is the leading business technology event series. Through in-depth educational programs, workshops, real-world demonstrations and live technology implementations in its unique InteropNet and InteropLabs programs, Interop provides the forum for the most powerful innovations and solutions the industry has to offer. As the meeting place for the global business technology community, upcoming Interop events include Interop New York, October 22-26, Javits Convention Center, New York City; Interop Berlin, November 6-8, Fairground Berlin; Interop Moscow 2008, April 23-24, 2008, Forum Hall, Moscow; Interop Las Vegas 2008, April 27-May 2, 2008, Mandalay Bay Convention Center, Las Vegas; and Interop Tokyo 2008, June 9-13, 2008, Mukahari Messe, Tokyo. For more information about these events, visit http://www.interop.com.
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, metro and core 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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