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Breaking News - Networking:
Foundry Intros Family Of App Management/Layer 4-7 Web Appliances
Foundry Networks Inc announced a new series of high-availability Layer 4-7
application management and Web appliances for business-critical application
and server farm infrastructures. The ServerIronGT E-series family includes the
industry's first high-availability 10-Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) application
management appliance.
The E-series products enable users to build and deploy scalable,
high-performance and robust application server farms with a comprehensive set
of load balancing methods, in-depth network defense and intelligent and
configurable content inspection and switching. The E-series protects the
integrity and availability of mission-critical services and applications with
a suite of network defense measures including extended access control lists,
detection and mitigation of distributed denial of service attacks (DDoS),
protection against viruses and worms, and policy-based security control for
network-level SPAM mitigation.
The three E-series models are designed to address price-performance
requirements across a range of enterprise and service provider environments.
The new products combine the configuration convenience of an appliance with
the high availability, port expandability and performance upgradeability of a
modular switch. This flexibility is unique in the industry and allows
customers to quickly adapt to traffic growth and network changes without
costly and disruptive forklift upgrades.
The ServerIronGT E-series appliances feature Foundry's field-proven
TrafficWorks embedded operating system that delivers advanced application
intelligence, high-availability and robust application security. Additionally,
the products integrate Foundry's innovative JetCore switching and packet
processing technology to achieve high-performance hardware-based forwarding,
denial of service protection and access control filtering.
The ServerIronGT E-series family includes three models:
- ServerIronGT EGx2 -- Two Gigabit Ethernet ports, application processor with
performance of up to 50,000 Layer 4 connections per second, two expansion
slots.
- ServerIronGT EGx4 -- Four Gigabit Ethernet ports, application processor
with performance of up to 100,000 Layer 4 connections per second, two
expansion slots.
- ServerIronGT E10Gx2 -- Two 10-Gigabit Ethernet ports, application processor
with performance of up to 150,000 Layer 4 connections per second, two
expansion slots.
ServerIronGT E-series appliances feature front accessible and hot-swappable
redundant power supplies (optional), management modules and line modules. The
products are designed for maximum investment protection, allowing the user to
add new ports and to double connection performance without field replacement.
The ServerIronGT E-series can be deployed in a number of network
configurations providing enterprise and service provider users a flexible and
powerful solution for a wide range of server farm topologies.
"Scalable performance, service availability and robust security are critical
to the success of our customers' application deployments," said Ken Cheng,
vice president of marketing for Foundry. "The ServerIronGT E-series family
leverages Foundry's core technologies and extensive experience in Layer 4-7
switching to provide users with a flexible, proven and cost-effective solution
for building scalable, secure and intelligent application management
infrastructure."
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