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Brocade to acquire Foundry in $3 Billion deal: Brocade has said it will acquire Foundry Networks, a company that does enterprise and service provider switching and routing, in a deal valued at $3 billion. The acquisition, which still needs final approval, comes on the heels of corporate problems for Brocade, notably the criminal misconduct sentence...; Tags: Stock Option, Foundry Networks Inc., Brocade Communications Systems Inc., Backdating, Stock Options, Benefits, Investment, Financial Accounting, Human Resources, Stock Options & Grants, Finance, Sam Diaz; Blog posts 2008-07-21
RTL Online Manages Growth Surge and Traffic Storms With Foundry Networks: RTL realized that to continue providing its customers with excellent quality of service, it needed a scalable solution that could exponentially increase future bandwidth on demand. After searching for a high-performance, scalable solution, the Dortmund-based software and systems house Comco AG delivered and installed two high-performance ServerIron load balancers from...; Tags: Foundry Networks Inc., Leadership, Data Centers, Management, Storage, Hardware, Data Management; Case studies 2008-03-01
GameRail Gives Online Gamers a High-Performance Edge: Missouri-based GameRail connects more than 34 million homes in the continental United States, Alaska, and Canada through partnerships with top national and regional DSL and cable broadband providers. The company wanted to deliver a flawless online gaming experience for customers and create a private bypass network to improve performance while...; Tags: Foundry Networks Inc., High-performance, Online Game, Games, Leadership, Cable, Personal Technology, Management, Telecommunications; Case studies 2008-01-03
Foundry and London Internet Exchange: Powering the Internet at 10 Gig Speeds: The London Internet Exchange LINX, one of the largest Internet Exchange Points IXPs in the world, offers cost-effective Internet peering to content delivery providers and ISPs. To accommodate a burgeoning membership and rapidly increasing traffic volume, LINX needed to raise its bandwidth capacity. The challenge was to add more powerful...; Tags: Foundry Networks Inc., BigIron RX, Ethernet, Network Technology, Internet, Networking; Case studies 2007-06-01
New England College Gets an Advanced Degree in Networking: After years of troubleshooting and creating workarounds for the college's network, Keene State College KSC decided to replace its aging networking infrastructure. The older equipment was unreliable and difficult to support, and in some scenarios, it simply wouldn't stay up and running. KSC wanted to deploy high-end, proven networking technology...; Tags: Foundry Networks Inc., Network, KCS, Networking; Case studies 2006-12-01

Wireless LANs in higher education: Universities and colleges are among the most aggressive adopters of Wi-Fi technology. This white paper looks at the trend toward more collaborative and open learning environments, fueled by the explosive adoption of mobile devices among students and faculty, makes higher education campuses fertile ground for wireless LANs.; Tags: Education, Foundry Networks Inc., WLAN, LANs, Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Network Technology, Networking; White papers 2006-11-01
Video-on-Demand Service Relies on Foundry to Reach Over 100 Million Viewers: NEO Index has one of the largest subscription bases in Japan. The company wanted to ensure low network latency to prevent any quality degradation in the video delivered to customers' screens and install reliable hardware that will ensure network uptime. The challenge was to create a 10 GbE network with...; Tags: Foundry Networks Inc., VoD, Network, Video-on-Demand Service, NEO Index, Video On Demand (VoD), Tv & Home Theater, Broadband Internet, Networking, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Telecommunications, Consumer Electronics; Case studies 2006-09-01
New MAN Drives Costs Down and Services Up: Asia Pacific Telecom Group APTG is a major service provider in Taiwan and consists of Asia Pacific Broadband Telecom APBT, Asia Pacific Online APOL and Asia Pacific Broadband Wireless APBW subsidiaries. APTG wanted to develop a nationwide Metropolitan Access Network MAN network in Taiwan. The challenge was to rollout the...; Tags: Metropolitan Area Network, Foundry Networks Inc., Network, Asia Pacific Telecom Group, Networking, Business Services, Network Technology; Case studies 2006-07-01
Building Trusted VPNs With Multi-VRF: Virtual Private Networks VPNs have been a key application in networking for a long time. A slew of possible solutions have been proposed over the last several years. Driving this need has been the requirement for secure transport of sensitive information, controlling information access to those who need it, etc....; Tags: Foundry Networks Inc., VPNs, Network Security, Telecommunications, Networking, Security; White papers 2006-06-15
Configuring Highly Available OracleAS Infrastructure With Foundry Networks ServerIron Hardware Load Balancer: A highly available Oracle Application Server deployment requires an Infrastructure service designed for high availability. Oracle Application Server 10g supports infrastructure deployments in a variety of Highly Available HA architectures each suited to different customer requirements. The primary HA solutions are - Cold Failover Cluster CFC and OracleAS Cluster (Identity...; Tags: Oracle Application Server, Foundry Networks Inc., Oracle Corp., Hardware, Foundry Networks ServerIron Load Balancer, Authentication/Encryption, Ssl/Tls, Application Servers, Middleware, Network Security, Enterprise Software, Security, Software, Networking; White papers 2006-02-01
Growth in Bandwidth Demand Leads Wholesaler to Foundry: GlobalConnect, one of Europe's largest independent suppliers of fiber-optic infrastructure, is augmenting its existing circuit-switch-based infrastructure with one based on Foundry Networks Layer 2/Layer 3 FastIron Edge X Series. The decision to install Ethernet switching was based on the prohibitive costs involved with upgrading the circuit-based infrastructure and the overall...; Tags: Foundry Networks Inc., Bandwidth, Infrastructure, Ethernet, Network Technology, Networking; Case studies 2006-01-01
London City Hall Gets High-Tech Makeover From Foundry and Mitel: The opening of the Greater London Authority's headquarters, City Hall, in 2002 symbolized a new era for Great Britain's capital. London City Hall wanted an integrated, modern communications infrastructure with fast links to transnational offices and the ability for workers to telecommute and a scalable solution that would support gradual...; Tags: Foundry Networks Inc., Mitel Networks, Telephony, Leadership, Ethernet, VOIP, Telecommunications, Network Technology, Networking, Management; Case studies 2006-01-01
German Bank Taps Foundry to Bring Infrastructure Into the Ethernet Age: Sparkasse Bielefeld is the largest savings bank in the Ostwestfalen-Lippe region. The bank successfully migrated it's headquarter network, including 550 clients and 104 servers, from Token Ring to state-of-the-art Gigabit Ethernet. The migration became necessary when Bielefeld's previous hardware supplier discontinued production further development of its Token Ring components. The...; Tags: Bank, Foundry Networks Inc., Sparkasse Bielefeld, Ethernet, LANs, Networking, Financial Services, Network Technology; Case studies 2006-01-01
Information Technology Center (ITC),the University of Tokyo Reliability and Performance for 30,000 Users Leverages Foundry's BigIron 8000: The University of Tokyo Information Technology Center, which was established in 1999 in a library affiliated with the University's Large-Scale Computing Center and the Educational Computing Center, supports the information processing needs of the University's research activities. In March 2004, the University launched the Educational Campus-wide Computing System 2004 (ECCS2004)....; Tags: Foundry Networks Inc., Performance, Information Technology, ECCS2004, Strategy, Networking, Management; Case studies 2005-12-01
Foundry and Mitel Deliver Scalable Voice and Data Solution for Large Medical Imaging Center: Steinberg Diagnostic Medical Imaging SDMI Center is one of the largest outpatient medical imaging center in the United States. As SDMI reviewed its existing network's ability to support PACS, they realized the architecture would not scale to meet the bandwidth and performance requirements inherent in PACS. After evaluating several equipment...; Tags: Foundry Networks Inc., Medical Imaging, Voice, Mitel Networks, Imaging, Steinberg Diagnostic Medical Imaging Center, Healthcare, Document Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting; Case studies 2005-11-01
UNH-IOL and Foundry Networks Team Up to Achieve IPv6 Readiness: Foundry Networks delivers high-performance network switching, routing, security and network traffic management solutions to more than 8,500 customers. Foundry needed to quickly ensure that its IPv6 products would excel in complex networks and interoperate with current and legacy network equipment from diverse manufacturers. The "IPv6 Read" program administered by UNH-IOL...; Tags: Team, Foundry Networks Inc., IPv6, Network, University Of New Hampshire InterOperability Lab, Networking, Telecommunications; Case studies 2005-10-21
Foundry wafer demand will grow 10% in 2005: Foundry wafer demand is expected to grow only 10% in 2005, compared to 31% in 2004, according to Semico. The research company expects to see increased activity in some non-traditional foundry markets, such as memories and microprocessors. That will push foundry wafer demand up 23% in 2006.; Tags: wafer; Blog posts 2005-10-20
Foundry high-voltage process prices up: Foundry prices for high-voltage processes, required for production of LCD driver ICs and some handset chips, have been increasing due to surging demand. Eight-inch, high-voltage (30V or higher) processes at Vanguard International Semiconductor VIS are priced about 40% higher than standard CMOS processes, while prices for 6-inch, high-voltage processes at...; Tags: 8-Inch, high-voltage process; Blog posts 2003-12-24
802.1X Port Authentication with Microsoft's Active Directory: This white paper describes Foundry's 802.1X Port Authentication feature and how it works with Microsoft's IAS server to create a seamless authentication environment for Active Directory installations.; Tags: Foundry Networks Inc., Microsoft Corp., IEEE 802.1X, Authentication, Microsoft Windows Active Directory, Directory Services, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Enterprise Software, Software; White papers 2003-03-15
Using IEEE 802.1x to Enhance Network Security: The purpose of this document is to introduce IEEE 802.1x standard for enhancing network security, outline the implementation of 802.1x within Foundry's range of products and offer deployment guidelines. The concept of IEEE 802.1x is to provide a standardized security authentication method for IEEE 802 based network technologies, including Local...; Tags: Foundry Networks Inc., Network, Network Security, IEEE 802.1X, Wi-Fi, Wireless, LANs, Networking, Security; White papers 2002-10-28

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