Overstock.com goes for Foundy in data center new headquarters

Enterprise Networks & Servers, May 2005

The online discounter Overstock.com has selected an end-to-end wired and wireless solution from Foundry Networks to power its online business.

Overstock.com Chief Technical Officer Shawn Schwegman said the company selected Foundry infrastructure to expand its data center and build out its new corporate headquarters near Salt Lake City, Utah. Overstock.com officials cited Foundry's track record in delivering high performance, low latency, reliable and scalable solutions from edge to core, and success and satisfaction with its previous deployments of Foundry infrastructure.

Foundry's Biglron MG8 high-performance 10-Gigabit Ethernet (10-GbE) switches will power the network backbone at Overstock. com's new headquarters, and Biglron and FastIron Edge switches equipped with 10-GbE uplinks will provide high-capacity aggregation and Layer 2/3 intelligence at the network's edge. Foundry's IronPoint access points will be deployed throughout Overstock.com's new headquarters to provide high-speed, easy-to-manage and secure wireless LAN services.

Overstock.com's data center infrastructure was expanded and reinforced with Foundry's Netlron routers running BGP-4 over Gigabit Ethernet links to the company's Internet Service Providers (ISPs). ServerlronXL applications switches provide the load balancing for Overstock, com's front-end web services. Biglron Layer 2/3 switches provide the Gigabit Ethernet connectivity for the data center's back-end storage farm.

Overstock.com has grown rapidly since its founding in 1999, reporting revenue increases of 80 percent in 2004 with more than half a million products listed and millions of customers.