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Foundry Networks' Bigiron RX-Series Awarded "Best Of Show" At Interop 2005 Tokyo

BigIron RX-series Wins Prestigious Best of Show Award for Infrastructure Core Product; Follows on the Heels of Grand Prize Award at Interop Las Vegas

Tokyo, Japan - June 9th, 2005 - Foundry Networks®, Inc. (Nasdaq: FDRY), a performance and total solutions leader for end-to-end switching and routing, today announced that its BigIron RX-series family of high-performance Layer 2/3 Ethernet switches was awarded the "Best of Show" Grand Prize for the category of infrastructure core product at Interop Tokyo 2005, the premier telecommunications and network technology event which was held this week in Tokyo from June 8th to the 10th.

The "Best of Show Award" is given to the product, solution or service that is the best and most suitable in the context of the year's theme. The winner is determined following the strict examination by IT industry experts and by a vote of tradeshow attendees.

"We set very high standards for the "Best of Show" infrastructure core product award. We selected the winner based on technology innovation, price affordability, and the performance specifications of the product. Foundry's BigIron RX-Series was picked because of the most innovative hardware design and the high-performance that the BigIron RX-Series is able to provide for the broadband Internet. Furthermore, we believe that this product represents Foundry's commitment and drive to engineer next generation and industry leading products," said Mr. Takashi Sato, the Producer for Interop Tokyo 2005.

"Foundry is honored to receive this award for the BigIron RX-series. This award recognizes the innovations and advancements designed into this exciting new product family," said Bobby Johnson, Chairman and CEO of Foundry Networks. "This win follows our Grand Prize and Best of Show win at Network+Interop in Las Vegas in May. The BigIron RX-series continues a tradition of delivering a technically advanced high-performance solution designed to meet our customers' current and future networking needs," continued Johnson.

About the BigIron RX-Series Family of L2/3 Switches
The BigIron RX-series family includes three chassis models, each supporting redundant management, redundant switch fabric and redundant power supply components. The BigIron RX-4 is a compact four rack unit (RU) high switch. It supports four half-slot port modules and has a switching capacity of 384 gigabits per second (Gbps). The BigIron RX-8 is seven rack units in height, supports eight half-slot port modules and has a switching capacity of 768 gigabits per second. The BigIron RX-16 is fourteen rack units in height supports, sixteen half-slot port modules and has a switching capacity of 1.536 terabits per second. With its low profile design, the BigIron RX-16 switch can be stacked three high in a single seven-foot rack providing for as many as 192 wire-speed 10-GE ports. High performance environments including Internet exchanges and High Performance Computing installations will be able to take advantage of this massive density and horsepower.

About NetWorld+Interop®
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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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