Foundry's FastIron gets bigger. (Product Review).(Foundry Networks' FastIron 400, FastIron 800, and FastIron 1500 network switches)(Evaluation)

Business Communications Review, February, 2002

Along with the exploding demand for bandwidth over the past several years, there's been a familiar evolution: Switches and routers that began their product life as monsters of the core get pushed further and further to the edges of the network, as even bigger platforms muscle in to handle ever-growing backbone loads.

Now Foundry Networks is reversing that pattern, pushing its wiring closet switch into the LAN core, promising, in the process, to improve the economics of enterprise switching. The force behind Foundry's move is a new ASIC, called the JetCore, which the vendor has implemented in its FastIron line of (heretofore) wiring closet switches. The JetCore, introduced last year, is at the heart of three new systems and six new interface modules...

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