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Foundry Networks To Exhibit At The Security, Risk And Compliance Pavilion At Oracle OpenWorld

Oracle Customers Have Choice When Selecting a Highly Secure Application Delivery Solution to Accelerate Performance and Increase Uptime

SANTA CLARA, Calif. and SAN FRANCISCO – (Nov. 12, 2007) – Foundry Networks®, Inc. (NASDAQ: FDRY), a performance and total solutions leader for end-to-end switching and routing, today announced its participation at Oracle® OpenWorld, the world's largest event dedicated to helping enterprises understand and harness the power of information, and its membership in the Oracle PartnerNetwork. As a member of the Oracle PartnerNetwork, Foundry™ has access to Oracle partner resources that can help Foundry deliver high availability, acceleration, security and scalability for business-critical IP applications.

"Today's migration of enterprise applications to Web protocols brings the benefits of a well-known and ubiquitous user interface to enterprise operations," said Bob Schiff, vice president and general manager for Foundry's Enterprise Business Unit.  "Along with these benefits are the increased traffic and security risks associated with using the Web platform for delivering business-critical applications. Foundry's application delivery products are designed to provide scalable and secure Web-based application delivery solutions.  Our relationship with Oracle is particularly valuable because of the extensive interoperability testing performed between our products to ensure our customers a proven total solution for a scalable, reliable and secure application infrastructure."

Membership in the Oracle PartnerNetwork gives Foundry the resources to help integrate to Oracle Applications and Foundry ServerIron® application delivery switches. This can greatly improve application uptime, accelerate application traffic with Secure Socket Layer (SSL) offloading and connection multiplexing while shielding servers and applications from malicious attacks and spam.

Available in a variety of form factors from high-end modular to compact fixed configuration switches, the ServerIron family of application and content delivery switches provide enterprise support for an integrated Web firewall that protects Web-based applications from a variety of threats. Adding to existing Web optimization features that include hardware-based SSL acceleration and server connection offload with HTTP connection pooling, Foundry's ServerIron application delivery switches merge a complete set of traffic management features to secure and accelerate application service delivery.

The Oracle Security, Risk and Compliance Pavilion is located in Moscone West, Booth 3830.

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About the Oracle PartnerNetwork

Oracle PartnerNetwork is a global business network of more than 19,500 companies who deliver innovative software solutions based on Oracle software. Through access to Oracle's premier products, education, technical services, marketing and sales support, the Oracle PartnerNetwork program provides partners with the resources they need to be successful in today's global economy. Oracle partners are able to offer their customers leading-edge solutions backed by Oracle's position as the world's largest enterprise software company. Partners who are able to demonstrate superior product knowledge, technical expertise and a commitment to doing business with Oracle qualify for the Certified Partner levels. http://oraclepartnernetwork.oracle.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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