SAN FRANCISCO, April 23, 2007 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- GARTNER SYMPOSIUM/ITxpo -- 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 Gartner Symposium/ITxpo 2007 conference entitled "Unified Communications Infrastructure" on Wednesday, April 25, 2007 at 12:30 p.m. in the San Francisco Moscone Center West room #3014.
Unified Communications allows organizations to seamlessly converge various communication applications such as telephony, conferencing, email, calendaring, scheduling and collaboration across the enterprise. Foundry's presentation will look closely at advanced networking solutions that enable reliable, robust and secure underlying unified communications-aware infrastructures from the wireless access point to the enterprise backbone. Enterprises that leverage a converged voice and data application network infrastructure results in increased employee productivity and efficiency. The presenter, Michael Hong, senior product marketing manager for wireless LAN solutions at Foundry, will discuss the building blocks of a unified communications infrastructure and the considerations in making informed decisions based on real world scenarios.
Michael Hong has extensive marketing and engineering experience in LAN switching, wireless LANs, network management and security systems. Prior to joining Foundry, Mr. Hong has held marketing and engineering positions with Symbol Technologies and Lucent Technologies. Mr. Hong holds a BS in electrical engineering from the University of Toronto and an MBA from the University of Michigan Business School.
About Gartner Symposium/ITxpo
Gartner Symposium/ITxpo is the IT industry's largest and most strategic conference, providing business leaders with a look at the future of IT. For more than 10,000 IT professionals from the world's leading enterprises, Gartner's annual Symposium/ITxpo events are key components of their annual planning efforts. Attendees rely on Gartner Symposium/ITxpo to gain insight into how their organizations can use technology to address business challenges and improve operational efficiency. For more information, please visit www.gartner.com/us/symposiumwest.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, 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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