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Foundry Networks And Ammasso Form Alliance For Cooperative Development And Marketing Of High Performance Computing Solutions

San Jose, CA and Boston, MA, November 8, 2004 - Foundry Networks®, Inc. and Ammasso today announced they have formed an alliance to cooperate in developing and delivering high-performance computing (HPC) solutions as part of the Foundry Networks HPC Ethernet Alliance Program. Foundry's HPC Ethernet Alliance Program is designed to accelerate deployment of high-performance Gigabit Ethernet and 10-Gigabit Ethernet (10-GbE) solutions within the HPC community. As part of the program, Foundry will work closely with Ammasso and with other leading next-generation Ethernet adapter, server and application vendors to deliver standards-based, high-performance HPC solutions for network-based, high-speed applications.

As part of the Foundry HPC Ethernet Alliance Program, Foundry and Ammasso will work together in the following areas:

  • Interoperability testing and benchmarking of Foundry's Ethernet switches with the Ammasso 1100 RDMA-enabled Gigabit Ethernet Adapter to provide customers with seamless integration and end-to-end performance measurements. Detailed test results are available on the Ammasso website at www.ammasso.com in the partner section.
  • Cooperative marketing to promote the use of Ethernet in HPC environments
  • Cross training on the benefits of an integrated, solutions-based HPC networking approach

"As customers move toward using clusters of low cost, standards-based servers, the need for efficient, high performance server-to-server networks has become critical," said Larry Genovesi, CEO of Ammasso. "By working with Foundry Networks, we can enable customers to leverage existing investment in their Ethernet infrastructures and extend it to incorporate high performance applications."

"Ethernet is becoming the interconnect of choice for a new generation of high-performance networks, from massively parallel processing supercomputers to commodity clusters and grids built with affordable, off-the-shelf components. As a leading provider of high-performance, low-latency network infrastructure to many leading supercomputing sites around the world, Foundry is working with partners like Ammasso to bring the benefits of Ethernet to the high-performance computing community," said Ken Cheng, vice president and general manager of the Layer 2/3 Switching and Routing Solutions Business Unit for Foundry. "With the HPC Ethernet Alliance Program, we are formalizing our longstanding commitment to work with partners to deliver the highest-quality, tested and proven networking solutions to simplify deployments, and ultimately help customers spend less time building and managing their networks and more time on their primary scientific and business mission."

Until now, a challenge facing customers who want to leverage standard networks for high-performance computing has been the lack of high-bandwidth, low-latency networking solutions based on the widely-used Ethernet standard. By combining the Ammasso 1100 high performance, low latency RDMA-enabled Ethernet adapter with Foundry's portfolio of industry-leading low-latency switches, customers can now extend the use of Ethernet for high-performance server-to-server networking.

Foundry and Ammasso will be demonstrating their joint solutions for the HPC market at the Supercomputing 2004 tradeshow, which opens this week in Pittsburgh, PA.

About Ammasso
Ammasso, Inc. is shipping RDMA-enabled Ethernet-based server-to server-networking technology designed to meet the performance requirements of enterprise data centers and high performance technical computing environments. The company's products dramatically reduce total cost of ownership by allowing customers to leverage their existing investments in infrastructure, training, and personnel while delivering the high throughput and low latency required for effective high performance compute environments. The company was founded in 2002, and is led by a management team with extensive experience in clustering technologies. In 2003, the company received funding from four leading venture firms: Prism Venture Partners, CDP Capital – Technology Ventures, Inflection Point Ventures, and Velocity Equity Partners. Visit the company's website at www.ammasso.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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