Monday, March 24th, 2008
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Foundry Networks’ ServerIron Honored With SearchNetworking.com 2008 Product Leadership Award
ServerIron Wins the Silver Award in the Application Delivery Controller Category
March 24, 2008: 08:00 AM EST
SANTA CLARA, Calif., March 24, 2008 (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 ServerIron(r) family of application delivery switches received a Silver Award in the category of application delivery controllers (ADC) for the SearchNetworking.com(tm) 2008 Product Leadership Awards.
The Awards span 12 networking product categories and recognize 36 products that enterprise IT professionals should consider adding to their “A” lists of networking products to evaluate. Winning products were selected by 1,800 networking professionals based on their assessment of products currently deployed within their own enterprises. Participants were asked to evaluate the networking products according to defined product-specific criteria, each of which was assigned a weighted value based on importance, with cumulative scores calculated for each product. SearchNetworking.com editors used these scores to determine Gold, Silver and Bronze award winners for the industry’s best networking products.
According to SearchNetworking.com, “ServerIron from Foundry captured high ratings for its server and load balancing capabilities and snagged the Silver in our ADC category. Foundry’s ServerIron family of application delivery and traffic management switches are aimed at business-critical IP, Web and VoIP applications, according to the company. ServerIron provides a total solution for server load balancing, Layer 7 switching, server farm and application security, SSL acceleration, compression, and multi-site redundancy.”
“It is an honor to be named as the Silver winner in the Product Leadership Awards for application delivery controllers; there is a great deal of competition in this segment and being identified as one of the leaders is a sign of our commitment to exceptional quality and high performance,” said Bobby Johnson, president and CEO for Foundry Networks. “The ServerIron family, with its integrated Web firewall capabilities and HTTP compression, provides demanding enterprises and service providers worldwide a scalable and proven solution for maximizing the performance and availability of their application and content delivery infrastructure.”
Foundry’s ServerIron family of application delivery switches is the industry leader 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. Foundry offers more than eight years of expertise and experience in delivering application solutions to the world’s largest enterprises and service providers.