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Air2Web Deploys Foundry's Application Switches To Scale And Fortify Its Mobile Solutions And Services

ServerIron Layer 4-7 Switches Deliver Scalable Performance and High Availability to Leading Mobile Solutions Provider

San Jose, CA, Sept. 29, 2004 – Foundry Networks®, Inc. (Nasdaq: FDRY), a performance and total solutions leader for end-to-end switching and routing, announced today that Air2Web, a leading provider of wireless data solutions and services, chose Foundry's ServerIron® switches to deliver superior performance and high availability for its wireless solutions. Wireless carriers and enterprise customers such as Cingular Wireless, The Weather Channel, ABN AMRO, and InterContinental Hotels Group rely on Air2Web's wireless solutions to deliver a wide range of business information to their employees, customers and partners using wireless devices.

Air2Web's wireless solutions deliver 2-way text messaging to wireless subscribers around the globe. This service offering requires massive scalability and around-the-clock service availability. ServerIron application switches provide intelligent distribution and management of data flows to hundreds of application servers in the Air2Web data centers. The ServerIron switches' high-availability capabilities protect against service interruptions by supporting graceful and stateful redistribution of application flows in the event of a server or application failure.

"Performance, security and reliability are the critical requirements for the robust wireless applications and services that our blue-chip customers rely on," said Dale Gonzalez, Air2Web CTO. "Foundry's innovative and highly scalable ServerIron switches help us meet these requirements, and are a critical element of our mission-critical application infrastructure."

ServerIron switches feature extensive load balancing, application switching and security features that help build highly available, massively scalable, and robustly secure server farm and application infrastructure. The switches are capable of defeating wire-speed Gigabit rate Denial of Service (DoS) attacks while serving legitimate application traffic.

"Air2Web is an excellent example of the type of high-performance, service-based customer that requires the levels of performance, and reliability the ServerIron products offer," said Bob Schiff, vice president of Multi-Layer Switching and Security for Foundry. "Air2Web's customers include some of the most demanding service providers in the world. It is important that Air2Web's services meet the performance and availability requirements of these high-profile customers. ServerIron application switches help Air2Web meet its service level agreements by combining application intelligence and high availability in an extensible and proven application switching solution."

About Air2Web
Air2Web is a global wireless solutions provider. Its wireless technology mobilizes email, instant messaging systems, ERP, SFA, and CRM applications, and multimedia content to employees and consumers. Air2Web's solutions generate new revenue streams through mobile marketing and cost-saving productivity gains for both carriers and enterprises. Air2Web has deployed hundreds of wireless applications globally for blue-chip companies such as UPS, Credit Lyonnais, The Weather Channel, Société Générale, Cingular Wireless, The InterContinental Hotels Group, ABM AMRO, France Telecom, The Weather Channel, Orange and Telefonica. For more information about Air2Web see www.air2web.com.

About Foundry Networks

Foundry Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: FDRY) is a leading provider of high-performance enterprise and service provider switching, routing, security and Web traffic management solutions, including Layer 2/3 LAN switches, Layer 3 Backbone switches, Layer 4-7 application switches, wireless LAN and access points, metro routers and core routers. Foundry's customers include the world's premier ISPs, metro service providers, and enterprises, including e-commerce sites, universities, entertainment, health and wellness, government, financial and manufacturing companies. For more information about the company and its products, call 1.888.TURBOLAN or visit www.foundrynet.com.

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