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DAILY NEWS AND INFORMATION
FOR THE GLOBAL GRID COMMUNITY / JUNE 9, 2003: VOL. 2 NO. 23
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Breaking News -
Security:
Foundry And Spirent Deliver
Powerful Security Demonstration
Foundry Networks Inc, a performance and total solutions leader for
end-to-end
switching and routing, and Spirent Communications, a worldwide provider of
integrated performance analysis and service assurance systems for
next-generation network technologies, staged a live demonstration for the
rapid detection and isolation of Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks, at
SUPERCOMM, the U.S.' premier communications infrastructure conference held in
Atlanta.
Foundry and Spirent showed how service providers and enterprise customers
can
leverage the ServerIron 400 Web switching system to process more than 1.5
million packets per second, or 1 Gigabit per second of attack traffic while
simultaneously processing valid HTTP transaction data. Spirent used its
Avalanche and WebSuite solutions on the SmartBits 6000 platform to generate
wire-rate DoS attacks in conjunction with realistic Layer 4-7 traffic. The
joint demonstration simulated a server farm undergoing a common DoS attack
known as a SYN flood. In this type of attack, massive numbers of invalid
connection requests are sent to a server, creating a huge backlog that slows
server traffic to a crawl and ultimately stops it altogether.
Foundry's new enhancement to its SYN-Guard technology fortifies an
extensive
package of security management tools within the IronWare security package that
complements Foundry ServerIron Layer 4-7 switches. Enterprise and service
provider customers rely on ServerIron switches to improve the scalability,
availability and manageability of their servers and applications. With the new
SYN-Guard enhancement, ServerIron switches protect servers from SYN-attack
traffic and pass through only complete and validated connections to servers.
The new SYN-Guard enhancement allows ServerIron switches to now defeat more
than 2 million packets per second of SYN-attack traffic.
"This SYN-Guard enhancement offers our extensive global customer base a
dramatic performance improvement over our prior SYN-Guard offering without
adding latency," said Chandra Kopparapu, vice president and general manager of
Foundry's Service Provider Business Unit. "The entire ServerIron family of
modular and chassis-based systems is designed to provide network managers with
effective tools for controlling and managing web traffic. We are pleased to
add this strong new protection against DoS attacks to our customers'
mission-critical network design options."
Among the companies that rely on Foundry's ServerIron Layer 4-7 switches
for
traffic management are the Greater London Authority, Munich University of
Technology, North American Mortgage Company, America Online, weather.com and
Raindance Communications. Foundry is a leader in the market for Layer 4-7
switching, with a more than 20% share in the most recent calendar quarter
according to independent research firm the Dell'Oro Group.
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