Foundry Selected by University of Illinois

Foundry Networks was selected to provide network infrastructure for a new, state-of the art technology education and research facility at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC).
The Siebel Center network will support advanced research applications, thousands of multimedia appliances and Gigabit to the desktop for hundreds of network nodes. It will feature advanced network security and manageability functions, including Foundry’s hardware-based network monitoring feature. Network equipment includes Foundry’s FastIron 1500 Layer 2/3 network switches from the wiring closet to the data center core and Foundry’s ServerIron 800 Layer 4-7 switches to provide sophisticated network load balancing and security functions. Financial terms were not disclosed. http://www.foundrynet.com