Foundry Networks Achieves Network Equipment Building Systems' —NEBS— Level 3 Compliance for NetIron Metro Routers

Business Wire, June 3, 2002

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

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ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 3, 2002

NetIron 1500 Is The First NEBS Level 3-Compliant Metro Router To

Provide Standards-Based 10-Gigabit Ethernet and Complete MPLS

Foundry Networks(R), Inc. (Nasdaq:FDRY), a leading provider of high-performance enterprise and service provider switching, routing and Web traffic management solutions, announced today that it achieved NEBS Level 3 Compliance for its NetIron(R) 1500 Metro router. The NEBS Level 3 Compliance underwrites the physical and operational robustness of the NetIron 1500 Metro routers, which meets the highest-level criteria for deployment in a Telco Central Office and similar unattended and remote deployments. The NetIron 1500 Metro routers are now certified to meet the most demanding physical and operational criteria for deployment in service provider environments in accordance with the NEBS' standards.

Service providers rely on NEBS Compliance to ensure the operating performance and safety of equipment deployed in their network facilities. The NEBS compliance testing process involves an extensive suite of tests designed to evaluate telecommunications network equipment in a variety of environmental conditions, including fire, earthquake, high vibration, extreme temperatures, and electromagnetic interference.

Foundry's NetIron 1500 router is the industry's first NEBS Level-3 Compliant Metro router to provide a complete suite of standards based 10-Gigabit Ethernet interfaces, providing ten-fold performance and scalability over Gigabit Ethernet. The NetIron 1500 is a modular system with an industry-leading port density of up to 14 10- Gigabit Ethernet ports, 28 OC-48c SONET ports, or 232 Gigabit Ethernet ports. Powered by Metro IronWare(TM), the NetIron 1500 router provides the most complete MPLS functionality on the market ,including RSVP-TE, Draft-Martini and Virtual Private LAN Services (VPLS) allowing service providers to offer multipoint-to-multipoint VPN services.

"NEBS Level 3 Compliance underscores Foundry's commitment to provide service provider customers with industry leading routers," said Bobby Johnson, president and CEO of Foundry Networks. "In addition to providing the industry's highest performance and scalability for Metro networks, our NetIron 1500 router is now certified by NEBS to meet the most demanding physical and operational criteria."

Availability and Pricing

Foundry's NetIron 1500 NEBS Level-3 certified router is generally available now. U.S. List Price for the chassis is $19,995.

About Foundry Networks

Foundry Networks, Inc. (Nasdaq:FDRY) is a leading provider of high-performance enterprise and service provider switching, routing and Web traffic management solutions including Layer 2/3 LAN switches, Layer 3 Backbone switches, Layer 4 - 7 Web switches and Metro Routers. Foundry's 4,300 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. Some of these customers include: AOL (NYSE:AOL), EarthLink, China Telecom, MSN (Nasdaq:MSFT), Verio, Cable & Wireless (NYSE:CWP), Yahoo! (Nasdaq:YHOO), Incyte Genomics, Inc. (Nasdaq:INCY), Deutsche Bank, The University of Washington, University of Miami, Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (INRIA) of France, The British Library, U.S. Army, Air Force and Navy, NASA and the National Space Development Agency of Japan. For more information about the company and its products, call 1.888.TURBOLAN or visit www.foundrynetworks.com.

Note to Editors: Foundry Networks, NetIron, IronWare, and the `Iron' family of marks are trademarks or registered trademarks of Foundry Networks, Inc. in United States and other countries. All other trademarks are the properties of their respective owners.