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Foundry's switches chosen by Sohonet(Corporate IT Update Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge) Foundry Networks Inc (Nasdaq: FDRY), a provider of switching, routing, security and web traffic management solutions, announced on Friday (21 September) that Sohonet, a specialist network and services provider for the media and entertainment business, has selected its NetIron MLX metro routers and FastIron Edge switch X (FESX) series switches. Twelve months ago, Sohonet's existing Riverstone Networks router infrastructure reportedly started to reach its capacity limits in terms of the quantity of gigabit ports which could be offered to clients, as well as the number of sessions the network could handle, and the company needed to upscale and install a high speed backbone infrastructure which could cope with this. According to the company, Foundry Networks' backbone NetIron MLX metro routers have been deployed in various Sohonet points of presence (PoPs) in London, UK, with the company investing in upgrading to a resilient 10 gigabit Ethernet fibre ring in the city, while the FESX switches are used to connect individual customers to the network and aggregate traffic to the core. The company also has an ongoing infrastructure upgrade project to install MLX metro routers throughout its global network over the next 12 months. In addition, Sohonet uses the sFlow traffic flow monitoring technology, included in the Foundry equipment, to enhance security. No financial details were disclosed. ((Distributed by M2 Communications Ltd - http://www.m2.com)) ((Comments on this story may be sent to [email protected])) Copyright 2007 M2 Communications Ltd. |