Foundry Networks' ServerIron™ Switch provides Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and enterprises with high performance Layer 4-7 application enabled switching that improves the availability, performance and scalability of Internet services such as content publishing, web hosting and e-commerce.

ServerIron includes Foundry Networks' Internet IronWare™, an extensive suite of load balancing and cache switching features that can be deployed concurrently for maximum flexibility and investment protection.

Unlike other solutions that rely upon specialized vendor and operating system dependent server-based software, ServerIron is switch and protocol based. This ensures compatibility with all major server vendors and operating systems. No special server agent software is required. As a switch based platform, ServerIron also provides higher performance, port density, scalable capacity and multiple levels of redundancy.

ServerIron offers 10, 100 and 1000 Mbps connectivity to servers. Server connections can be configured as trunks for greater bandwidth and redundancy. The ServerIron base unit includes 8, 16 or 24 10/100 Mbps ports that automatically sense and adjust to the speed of attached devices. One or two Gigabit Ethernet ports are available in 1000BaseSX multi-mode and 1000BaseLX single-mode.