Foundry Networks' JetScope Total Network Monitoring Solution Illuminates Switched and Routed Network Traffic

Business Wire, May 6, 2002

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

NetWorld Interop 2002 Las Vegas

Booth #5839

LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 6, 2002

See How Foundry's Breakthrough Technology Helps Enable Enterprises and

Service Providers to Continuously Monitor, Control, and Account for

Network Traffic without Impacting Network Performance

Foundry Networks(R), Inc. (Nasdaq:FDRY), a leading provider of high-performance enterprise and service provider switching, routing and Layer 4 - 7 traffic management solutions, announced today the introduction of JetScope(TM), a total network monitoring and accounting solution for Enterprises and Service Providers. Foundry will showcase this technology this week at NetWorld Interop, Las Vegas from May 7 - 9, 2002 at booth #5839.

JetScope is a major technology achievement that combines, for the first time, hardware and software functionality together to grant network managers a comprehensive view of network and application traffic in all ports -- simultaneously, with, in effect no significant impact to overall networking performance and without the need of expensive probes. Using the knowledge gained from this insight, network operators can reduce total networking costs of ownership through proactive network planning, detailed traffic analysis and reporting, security policy enforcement, and effective network troubleshooting.

"Existing traffic monitoring and network flow export technologies lack the ability to deliver complete network monitoring and accounting solutions, while maintaining wire-speed switching and routing performance," said Jason Traeden, network engineer at University of Utah Hospital. "Foundry's JetCore ASIC, with the sFlow technology, enables us to monitor Layer 2 up to Layer 7 network traffic flows within our wiring closet, our network backbone, and our data center, ensuring total control of the network and the services we provide within UUH," continued Traeden.

Having embraced high-speed hardware-based switching and routing technologies to meet today's user demand for increased network performance, the network administrator is less able to see complete and detailed end-to-end traffic flows, due to the migration from shared to switched networking infrastructures. Network management, monitoring, and troubleshooting have become tedious and cumbersome because network administrators are forced to use expensive technologies, such as port mirroring associated with RMON probes and packet sniffers, or tools that are inadequate to keep up with the aggregate network performance and increased density of today's high-speed network devices. These tools cannot provide a complete view of the network; they negatively impact network performance, and are expensive.

Foundry's JetScope solution overcomes all these shortcomings because of its hardware-based traffic analysis capabilities, standard-based traffic collection implementation and comprehensive user interface design. The JetScope solution consists of three primary components:

-- Foundry's 3rd Generation JetCore ASIC -- delivering wire-speed performance
along with Layer 2 - 7 packet analysis and SNMP counters

-- sFlow -- an open IETF standard (RFC3176) for monitoring and collecting
traffic in switched and routed networks

-- Foundry's IronView(TM) Network Manager (INM) Release 1.5 -- Java-based
network management application that performs both sFlow and SNMP data
collection and presentation.

"With the JetScope solution, Foundry has again set the high-water mark for networking infrastructures and technologies, delivering unprecedented network traffic visibility to network managers," said Bobby Johnson, president and CEO of Foundry Networks. "Foundry has simplified, enhanced, and optimized network traffic monitoring by building the networking analysis capabilities directly inside the JetCore ASIC chipset, which provides a virtually complete, seamless, and integrated view of what's going on inside Enterprise and Service Provider networks."

Pricing and Availability

The JetScope solution is available in all Foundry JetCore-based products including FastIron(R) 400, 800, 1500, BigIron(R) JetCore modules, and NetIron(R) MetroLink(TM) JetCore management and interface modules. JetScope is also available on the FastIron FWS4802 wiring closet switch and BigIron chassis configured with the Velocity(TM) management module. The IronView Network Manager release 1.5 including a sFlow/RMON collection application is now available for $4,995 US List and as a free upgrade to existing customers holding a valid IronView support contract. All products are shipping and available today from Foundry Networks. Please contact your local sales team for more details.

A real-time demonstration of JetScope is available on the web at: www.foundrynet.com/technologies/sFlow/index.html. Click on the link labeled, "Experience the JetScope Virtual Tour."

About Foundry Networks

Foundry Networks, Inc. (Nasdaq:FDRY) is a leading provider of high-performance enterprise and service provider switching, routing and traffic management solutions including Layer 2/3 LAN switches, Layer 3 Backbone switches, Layer 4 - 7 traffic management switches and Metro Routers. Foundry's 4,000 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 888/TURBOLAN or visit www.foundrynetworks.com.