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Foundry Takes Gigabit Ethernet To Next Level
News Foundry Networks will race up the LAN price/performance curve next week when it introduces a new suite of Gigabit Ethernet switches that work with standard Category 5 copper wire. Many places already have the wiring in place," said Foundry user...
[August 19, 1999, 12:16]
Foundry Hammers Security Into Switches
News Foundry Networks has become the latest LAN equipment vendor to build security into its switching portfolio. Foundry has released four new hardware and software products, all aimed at building firewall and denial-of-service protection into the network.
[October 25, 2006, 10:50]
Foundry Rolls Out IPv6 Router And Switch Support
News Networking equipment vendor Foundry has added IPv6 support to its NetIron 40G router and its BigIron MG8 switch, and is now ready to ship this updated hardware to market in Europe. Some of our domestic and international customers have made IPv6 a...
[June 4, 2004, 18:00]
Ingrian And Foundry: Enabling High Performance Secure Networking
White Papers This paper describes the interoperability testing performed with Foundry's ServerIron switches and the various Ingrian SSL accelerator products (the i1xx and i2xx series). It demonstrates that Ingrian and Foundry successfully interoperate and...
[September 30, 2003, 0:00]
Japanese Companies May Form A Super-foundry
News Hitachi, Toshiba and Renesas are considering establishing a communal chip foundry to which each could outsource its semiconductor manufacturing activities, the companies said on Wednesday. In a brief statement, the companies said they "initiated a...
[December 29, 2005, 9:55]
Compaq TaskSmart C-Series Servers Obtain Greater Availability With Foundry Networks ServerIron Switch
White Papers The purpose of this paper is to describe how to create a cluster using two TaskSmart C-Series caching proxy servers in client acceleration mode and a Foundry Networks ServerIron. As companies grow more dependent on the Internet for all types of e...
[November 14, 2003, 23:00]
Information Technology Center (ITC),the University Of Tokyo Reliability And Performance For 30,000 Users Leverages Foundry's BigIron 8000
White Papers The University of Tokyo Information Technology Center, which was established in 1999 in a library affiliated with the University's Large-Scale Computing Center and the Educational Computing Center, supports the information processing needs of the...
[December 2, 2007, 23:00]
Enterasys Sues Rivals For Patent Violation
News Enterprise LAN vendor Enterasys has filed a patent suit against rivals Extreme Networks and Foundry Networks, which one analyst sees as a sign of desperation by a company experiencing poor results. Enterasys claims Foundry Networks and Extreme...
[June 27, 2005, 13:40]
Power On Ethernet Gives Networks A Voice
News Foundry Networks will deliver Power on Ethernet versions of all its LAN switches, making voice services on the LAN more reliable. PoE products from other vendors tend to implement it as a separate module," said Foundry spokesman Adam Stein.
[March 11, 2003, 13:50]
MAN Alive In Springfield, MO: Third Largest City In Missouri Forges Ahead With Global Ethernet
White Papers Foundry Networks provided the solution they needed with optical transport of native Gigabit Ethernet and high-density Layer 2/3 Switching to create a metropolitan access network (MAN). Foundry's solution for private Virtual Local Area Networks...
[October 27, 2004, 0:00]
Samsung To Share IBM's Chips
News Samsung said on Friday that it has simultaneously licensed Big Blue's chipmaking technology, signed on to use IBM Microelectronics' chip foundry service, and joined an IBM-backed partnership focused on future chip-manufacturing processes.
[March 8, 2004, 9:30]
US Report: FTC Gives OK To Digital/Intel Chip Deal
News He added that Digital was not in any other discussion regarding an Alpha foundry. Harry Copperman, an executive vice president at Digital, said as recently as late last month that the company was seeking a third Alpha foundry.
[April 24, 1998, 9:59]
Much-hyped Start-up Hangs Out Sale Sign
News The sources confirmed that both Cisco Systems and Foundry Networks have emerged as potential acquirers. Foundry did not return calls by press time. So why would Foundry and Cisco be interested in Procket?
[June 14, 2004, 11:40]
HP Slashes Port Cost, Stays In Wiring Closet
News Although the new products extend its Procurve wiring closet range higher, the company is still sticking with Foundry for its high-end core switches. Despite the increase in performance, HP does not intend to take its switches out of the (wiring...
[April 23, 2002, 14:42]
LAN Security Firm Pushes Into UK
News Nevis' UK operations are led by Matthew Nunnery, who launched Foundry Networks — now a rival to Nevis — in the UK 10 years ago. Last week, number-two vendor Foundry Networks said it had built security into its switches.
[November 2, 2006, 15:12]
Transmeta Investigating Taiwan Foundries
News Among them is Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), the largest of the independent semiconductor foundries-for-hire, and United Microelectronics (UMC), another major foundry. A deal with TSMC or a similar foundry could help Transmeta...
[August 8, 2000, 10:00]
TSMC Discloses Chip 'espionage' Evidence
News TSMC invented the foundry business, which is the business of making chips for companies that don't want to build their own factories. The world's fifth largest foundry also asked for allegations to be dismissed on the grounds that US courts do not...
[March 25, 2004, 11:27]
IBM To Produce Nvidia Chips
News That changes its manufacturing situation pretty significantly, as when dealing with more than one foundry, you have the ability to start partitioning your manufacturing. When looking for an additional foundry, Nvidia also sought out technology that...
[March 26, 2003, 7:39]
IBM Licenses 45nm Technology In China
News SMIC is a chip foundry, meaning that it manufactures chips that other companies design. China is a rapidly growing, strategic marketplace, and SMIC is the largest Chinese foundry," said Kevin Hutchings, IBM's vice president of intellectual property...
[December 27, 2007, 11:08]
AMD To Phase Out Durons By End Of Year
News Athlon production, which currently takes place in Dresden, will then get shifted to UMC, a Taiwanese foundry that is engaged with AMD on other deals. Building chips at a foundry costs more than building them in-house, but the early, unexpected move...
[April 19, 2002, 9:59]
