From correspondents in Karnataka, India, 04:09 PM IST

Foundry Networks®, Inc. a performance and total solutions leader for end-to-end switching and routing, today announced it is positioned in the leaders quadrant in the Gartner, Inc. Magic Quadrant for Campus LAN (Global), 2008 report[1]]. A leading worldwide IT research and advisory firm, Gartner evaluated local area network (LAN) vendors worldwide for this report on an established set of criteria focused on a vendor’s ability to execute and completeness of vision. Based on the evaluation, Gartner positions each vendor in one of four quadrants: leaders, challengers, visionaries or niche players.

To receive a full copy of the report, compliments of Foundry Networks, visit tp://www.foundrynet.com/pdf/gartner-mq-2008.pdf.

Magic Quadrant for Campus LAN (Global), 2008, Mark Fabbi, 26 March 2008

According to Gartner, "A leader has demonstrated a sustained ability to meet the changing needs for mainstream LAN switching architectures. A leader also has an ability to shape the market and maintain strong relationships with its channels and customers, and has no major gaps in the portfolio."

“We are very pleased that Gartner has positioned Foundry Networks in the leaders quadrant," said Bobby Johnson, president and CEO for Foundry Networks. “We believe Foundry’s placement underscores our long-standing commitment to high performance, continuous innovation, and world-class customer service and support in our advanced networking solutions benefiting customers. Our industry-leading switching and routing products provide feature sets that allow organizations to build scalable, and cost-effective networking infrastructures that support convergence-based applications and open standards to enable greater business efficiency and competitive differentiation and advantage.”

Foundry Networks offers complete edge-to-core networking solutions based on advanced switching, routing and traffic management technologies to deliver the security, reliability and performance required by information-driven organizations. The company’s proven expertise in security, convergence, next-generation infrastructure, application traffic management, and high-performance computing helps industry leaders across the globe advance their businesses and resolve current and future IT challenges. By focusing on these core strategies, Foundry delivers innovative, end-to-end solutions enhanced by industry-leading customer service and support that strengthen communication, collaboration and business service delivery.

1 Magic Quadrant for Campus LAN (Global), 2008, Mark Fabbi, 26 March 2008

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