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Foundry Networks' 10-Gigabit Ethernet Solutions Power Right Media's Online Advertisement Delivery

Industry Leader in 10-Gigabit Ethernet Solutions Powers Four Global Data Centers for High Performance and Scalable Online Advertisement Delivery

SANTA CLARA, Calif. (June 14, 2006) -- Foundry Networks®, Inc. (NASDAQ: FDRY), a performance and total solutions leader for end-to-end switching and routing, today announced that Right Media, a leading online advertising management provider, deployed Foundry's 10-Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) LAN and application switching solutions to meet the growing traffic demands of its online advertising services.  With its web site currently serving over 45 billion impressions per month and plans for aggressive growth, Right Media required a high-performance and scalable data center infrastructure to seamlessly scale and support their fast growing network traffic while ensuring high service availability. The new data center infrastructure utilizes Foundry Networks' award-winning 10GbE switching and application acceleration solutions, deployed across four globally distributed data centers, to deliver high availability Web services with unparalleled scalability to accommodate future traffic growth.

Right Media leverages Foundry Networks' BigIron RX switches for its data center backbone, the FastIron Edge X Series for Gigabit server aggregation, and the ServerIron 450 application switches for Web service acceleration and availability. According to Alexa.com, Right Media's Yield Manager Platform now consistently ranks in the Top 50 Websites for total data traffic delivered.  After extensive testing, Foundry's solutions delivered the performance needed to meet Right Media's current demands, while also future-proofing their network and server farm infrastructure to incrementally scale with increased traffic demands. The industry's first high availability 10GbE ServerIron application switch enables the server farm to scale to hundreds or thousands of servers, and provides Right Media with intelligent application load balancing to accelerate service delivery. With integrated global load balancing of Web traffic across multiple data centers, the Foundry solution offers location transparency and traffic localization to further optimize service performance.

"To meet the stringent service agreements of our enterprise customers, high availability and on-demand scalability are fundamental requirements for our Web infrastructure. Furthermore, our growth must not be constrained by our infrastructure," said Howie Schneider, director of infrastructure and systems administration for Right Media.  "We have refreshed our Web services infrastructure and deployed Foundry Networks' end-to-end 10-Gigabit Ethernet data center solutions to overcome serious performance limitations of other vendors' offerings. The resulting infrastructure provides the resilience we were looking for and easily handles our current traffic load with plenty of room for growth. Additionally, Foundry's support and partnership have helped us address our networking needs quickly, enabling us to meet our service level commitments to our customers."

Highly available and scalable performance is critical to the success of businesses that rely on the Internet for their storefront. The resulting Foundry powered infrastructure allows Right Media to scale server farm capacity on-demand and incrementally as traffic grows. Additional data centers can be brought online and seamlessly added to the global service network managed by Foundry's global load balancing. In the event of a rare data center interruption, Foundry's Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB) disaster recovery feature built into the ServerIron 450 instantly redirects traffic to parallel facilities allowing Right Media's customers to continue their business seamlessly.

As Right Media confronts this growth in traffic with more server and network capacity in the data center, infrastructure efficiency and upkeep becomes a key consideration. Foundry's products leverage the latest technology to minimize power consumption while driving high-density wire-speed 10GbE performance in the data center, this helps pack more power into smaller space and reduces the annual cost of ownership. Foundry's BigIron RX has the industry's lowest power consumption at 15.8K Watts while driving 4.62 terabits per second in a standard Telco rack or less than 7 Watts per Gigabit Ethernet port. This is 40 percent less power usage than competing products from other vendors.

"Foundry's 10-Gigabit Ethernet LAN and applications switches are engineered to meet the needs of the most demanding network environments, such as Right Media's multi-site online advertising management infrastructure," said Ken Cheng, vice president and general manager of the high end business unit for Foundry Networks.  "Our future-proof solutions enable business customers to build and scale their network infrastructure seamlessly as their business expands. Foundry's total solution offering also makes it easy to deploy and manage global services through a consistent system architecture and user interface."

About Right Media
Right Media operates interactive advertising's first open media exchange. Connected on a common platform, buyers and sellers seamlessly trade more than two billion impressions on the exchange each day. Like a financial exchange, the Right Media Exchange enables competition in an open, fair market to drive more value for both sides of every transaction. The exchange is the basis for a variety of client-specific programs and products that help marketers, publishers and ad networks trade and manage media more efficiently. These range from turnkey sales programs, to global campaign management systems, to the RM Ad Network. Right Media is privately held and headquartered in New York, with offices in San Francisco, Eugene and Tallahassee. For more information, visit www.rightmedia.com or call 212-561-6470.

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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