June 19, 2002 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Switching, routing and traffic management solution provider Foundry Networks Inc. (FoundryNetworks.com) announced on Wednesday that Internet solution developer Sun Microsystems Inc. (Sun.com) will use Foundry networking solutions to enhance the reliability, performance and capability of its new Sun ONE-based Messaging Internet Data Center Reference Architecture.
Sun says its Sun ONE-based Messaging IDC Reference Architecture has been tested and tuned to simplify customer choice, as well as speeding up and lowering the risk of messaging solution deployments.
“We chose Foundry’s high performance, wire-speed, non-blocking Layer 3 switching and server load balancing solution as a part of our recommended modular solution, to enhance the scalability and reliability of our customers’ network infrastructures,” says Ravi Pendekanti, solutions marketing director, Sun Microsystems, Inc. “Foundry’s products enable our customers to proactively manage network performance, distribute content intelligently and maintain high service availability. By leveraging Foundry’s best-in-class solutions, our reference architecture can now support up to one million users, delivering unmatched performance, and meeting the reliability needs of our customers.”
Foundry says Sun is using the company?s BigIron Layer 3 switches to reduce performance bottlenecks, increase availability and reliability and simulate, operate and manage its Messaging IDC Reference Architecture. Sun is also using Foundry?s ServerIron Layer 4-7 Traffic Management switches to enhance content delivery.
