TOKYO, April 23, 2007 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- Foundry Networks(r), Inc. (Nasdaq:FDRY), a performance and total solutions leader for end-to-end switching and routing, today announced the company's participation in the RSA Conference Japan 2007 seminar entitled "Advancing Wireless Security" on Wednesday, April 25, 2007 at 1:00 pm in The Prince Park Tower Tokyo.
While 802.11i and Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA and WPA2) provide adequate authentication and encryption protection for wireless security, emerging wireless attacks can go beyond the capabilities of standards-based security solutions. Foundry's presentation will look at advanced wireless security solutions that provide additional layers of security beyond today's standards, providing location-based wireless protection and enhanced authentication/encryption methods making enterprise networks highly resistant to attacks. The presenter, Franchesca Walker, marketing director for enterprise solutions for Foundry, will discuss the benefits of real-time location-based wireless security, wireless perimeter protection and best practices when deploying simple, safe and secure guest wireless access.
Franchesca Walker is the Marketing Director, Enterprise Solutions for Foundry Networks responsible for Wireless LAN and L2/3 LAN switch products. Ms. Walker has over twenty years of product marketing and management experience in networking solutions. Prior to joining Foundry, Ms. Walker has held product management, business development and quality assurance positions with Luminous Networks, Adaptive Broadband, Telmax Communications, Cisco Systems, Nortel and Siemens. Ms. Walker holds a BA from the St Mary's University and an MBA from Belford University.
For more information on Foundry's Wireless LAN solutions, please visit http://www.foundrynet.com/products/family/ironpoint.html
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, 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.foundrynet.com.
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