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DAILY NEWS AND INFORMATION
FOR THE GLOBAL GRID COMMUNITY / JULY 7, 2003: VOL. 2 NO. 27
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Breaking News -
Networking:
Foundry Provides 10 Gbit Ethernet
Infrastructure For N+I
Foundry Networks Inc, a performance and total solutions leader for
end-to-end
switching and routing, announced that its newest NetIron routers were chosen
to provide network infrastructure at Networld + Interop (N+I) Tokyo, the
premier Asian network computing tradeshow.
Foundry's high-performance NetIron 40G 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) router
will
provide critical backbone technology for N+I's show network, and the NetIron
4802 will provide edge routing capability for a live demonstration of Internet
Protocol Version 6 (IPv6), the next-generation Internet standard.
Foundry's NetIron 40G will provide 10GbE core switching capability for
ShowNet, N+I's information system which provides Internet access to exhibitors
and to thousands of networked devices throughout the show.
ShowNet is a perennial highlight of N+I Tokyo, historically featuring some
of
the industry's newest, most powerful and reliable technologies. Foundry's
NetIron 40G router is the industry's first 40 Gigabit-ready routing solution,
and offers up to four Terabits of switching capacity and 1.5 billion packets
per second of routing performance per rack -- nearly twice the capability of
other announced platforms. The NetIron 40G router offers a complete and robust
set of IP routing protocols including BGP4, OSPF and IS-IS.
Elsewhere at N+I Tokyo, the Foundry NetIron 4802 router will provide edge
routing capabilities within the IPv6 showcase. The NetIron 4802 router is the
industry's most compact, powerful, and aggressively-priced router for leading
enterprise and service provider customers, and it offers support for high-
performance IPv4 and IPv6 routing. The N+I Tokyo showcase features IPv6
running in a variety of settings, including service provider, large enterprise
and home networking environments. The showcase is designed to demonstrate the
new standard's interconnectivity with a variety of networking products
including hardware and software solutions from more than a dozen vendors.
IPv6 tackles the need for more address space on the Internet, which is
driven
by exploding Internet usage and the proliferation of Internet-connected
devices such as laptops, IP phones and digital security cameras. The NetIron
4802 router packs fast route processing, larger routing tables and IPv6
routing features in compact form factor, and paves the way for next generation
IPv6 networks. With its complete IPv6 routing features, the NetIron 4802
router is an attractive choice for enterprises and service provider networks
looking to deploy IPv6, and to develop and test a new generation of IPv6
applications, devices and services.
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