SANTA CLARA, Calif. and HEATHROW, Fla., March 17, 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 AAA (American Automobile Association) selected its converged switching, wireless LAN (WLAN) and security solutions for its national office in Heathrow, Fla. in order to improve its network performance, scalability and most importantly, security.
As North America's largest motoring and leisure travel organization with nearly 51 million members, AAA is one of the most respected authorities in travel, insurance, financial and automotive-related services. Similar to many other companies, AAA's original campus network infrastructure was rapidly approaching the end of its inherent lifecycle. As its next-generation business needs evolved, it became critical to refresh both its wired and wireless network infrastructure with a solution that is extremely secure and highly scalable to accommodate growth. To maximize performance and protect its capital investment, each employee within AAA is now connected to a wired FastIron(r) SuperX convergence-ready switch or a wireless IronPoint(tm) Mobility Series access point.
To completely secure the AAA network, AAA utilizes a combination of Foundry's IronView(r) Network Manager (INM), FastIron SuperX converged switches with embedded security capabilities and IronShield(tm) 360 Security for managing and securing the network end-to-end. Foundry's INM leverages 802.1x, a standardized security authentication method for IEEE 802-based network technologies, and sFlow(r) traffic monitoring, an industry standard technology for monitoring networks, as part of Foundry's IronShield(tm) 360 Security solution. This powerful traffic monitoring solution, embedded in Foundry switches and routers, deliver highly scalable security and threat mitigation, without the added cost or performance degradation of auxiliary security sensors.
"Before selecting Foundry Networks, we executed an exhaustive search of competitive offerings from the top networking vendors," said Jeff Eberhardt, director of technology solutions for AAA. "We already had a gigabit Ethernet network in place but we were missing a critical ingredient, our ability to completely secure and monitor our network end-to-end. Foundry was able to deliver multiple layers of network security, both at the perimeter and inside the LAN, using sFlow traffic monitoring, embedded in all our Foundry switches. This simplifies our networking infrastructure while also making it more powerful and secure."
"We are pleased to be selected by AAA as its networking infrastructure partner of choice," said Bob Schiff, vice president and general manager for Foundry's Enterprise Business Unit. "Foundry's solutions provide AAA with a complete converged solution that delivers the flexibility of wireless mobility and voice over IP convergence with the scalability to support future network growth. To protect network integrity, the Foundry infrastructure features secure network access control and around-the-clock network monitoring to safeguard the network from unauthorized access and malicious attacks."
Foundry's FastIron SuperX Layer 2/3 modular switches are purpose built to deliver AAA with high-performance gigabit Ethernet (GbE), 10GbE, and advanced networking solutions for tomorrow's mission critical and today's increasing security needs. They are designed with high-performance ASICs to deliver high-density GbE that can include Power over Ethernet (PoE) and 10GbE. Delivering greater performance, reliability, advanced user and networking security and extensive redundancy, the FastIron SuperX Series can expedite an organization's return on investment (ROI) through a lower total cost of ownership (TCO).
About AAA
As North America's largest motoring and leisure travel organization, AAA provides nearly 51 million members with travel, insurance, financial and automotive-related services. Since its founding in 1902, the not-for-profit, fully tax-paying AAA has been a leader and advocate for the safety and security of all travelers. For additional information, please visit www.aaa.com.
About Foundry Networks
Foundry Networks, Inc. (Nasdaq:FDRY) is a leading provider of high-performance enterprise and service provider switching, routing, security and Web traffic management solutions, including Layer 2/3 LAN switches, Layer 3 Backbone switches, Layer 4-7 application switches, wireless LAN and access points, metro and core routers. Foundry's customers include the world's premier ISPs, metro service providers, and enterprises, including e-commerce sites, universities, entertainment, health and wellness, government, financial and manufacturing companies. For more information about the company and its products, call 1.888.TURBOLAN or visit www.foundrynet.com.
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