Nominum’s DNS servers and Foundry’s ServerIron Load Balancing Switches Offer a Secure, Scalable and Ultra High Availability DNS Solution
SAN JOSE & REDWOOD CITY, Calif., October 18, 2005 – Nominum, the leading provider of IP address infrastructure solutions, and Foundry Networks, Inc. (Nasdaq: FDRY) a performance and total solutions leader for end-to-end switching, routing and application Web switching, today announced that they have joined forces to deliver industry-leading carrier-class DNS (Domain Name System) solution to Enterprise, Service Providers and Carriers for their IP applications and services.
“Foundry and Nominum are known as performance leaders, and no single area of the network is in greater need of a performance upgrade than the DNS infrastructure,” said Tom Tovar, VP Business Development, Nominum. “Nominum‚s DNS servers and Foundry‚s load balancing products deliver a best-in-class DNS solution, offering carriers a proven high performance solution on which to build new IP services.”
DNS application is a critical foundation to deliver high availability and high performance to all IP-based services. Nominum’s cache and authoritative name servers deliver low latency and high-performance DNS service, and Foundry’s award-winning ServerIron application switching and traffic management devices provide on-demand scalability and ultra high availability to the DNS infrastructure. The combined solution leverages purpose-built DNS solutions to provide unparalleled DNS performance, carrier-class availability and robust security. Rapid broadband adoption, increasing mobile and wireless services, voice/data convergence and the emergence of “triple play” services are straining the DNS services traditionally built with open source software. Organizations cannot afford to rely on open source solutions that provide sub-par performance and are vulnerable to malicious attacks. The joint Foundry and Nominum solution also delivers on-demand scalability with the ability to incrementally add server capacity without forklift upgrades.
“As service providers and legacy carriers migrate to IP-based broadband and communication service models, the network, server and DNS infrastructures become essential life support systems,” said Bob Schiff, vice president of product marketing, Foundry Networks. “We chose Nominum to deliver the Industry’s most scalable and high performance DNS solution. The combined solution provides carrier-class availability to the most fundamental IP service.”
“As carriers move to deploy triple play services and accommodate increased level of voice traffic, they require highly reliable, resilient DNS architectures that include load balancing,” said Neil Rickard, Research VP, Gartner.
Nominum Foundation Caching and Authoritative name servers give carriers a cost-effective platform to deliver the utmost in DNS responsiveness and capacity. Foundry ServerIron and Nominum CNS add defense-in-depth security protection and resilience against most DNS attacks. The ServerIron system features DNS rate limiting, filtering, and access policy enforcement to block these attacks before they reach the servers. Nominum CNS supports response validation, selective cache flushing, domain filtering, and on-the-fly server reconfiguration to protect against attacks that bypass network-level checks.
About Nominum
Nominum is the leading provider of IP address infrastructure solutions for Global 2000 companies. Nominum provides the Industry’s highest-performance and highest-availability Internet naming and addressing solutions for the always-on network. Nominum’s Foundation product family includes scalable, reliable and secure DNS and DHCP servers and IP address management (IPAM) systems. These solutions allow service providers to deliver a carrier-grade telecommunications infrastructure that supports the rapidly growing demand for new services, and allows enterprises to create resilient and reliable networks that are responsive to changing business conditions. For further information visit www.nominum.com
Note: Nominum and the Nominum logo are registered trademarks of Nominum Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
About Foundry Networks
Foundry Networks, Inc. (Nasdaq: FDRY) is a leading provider of high-performance enterprise and service provider switching, routing 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, access routers and metro routers. Foundry‚s 8,500 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.foundrynetworks.com.
Note: Foundry Networks, ServerIron, and the “Iron” family of marks are trademarks of Foundry Networks, Inc. All other trademarks are the sole property of their respective holders.
Nominum and Foundry Networks Partner to Deliver High-Performance Carrier-Class DNS Solution
Nominum’s DNS servers and Foundry’s ServerIron Load Balancing Switches Offer a Secure, Scalable and Ultra High Availability DNS Solution
SAN JOSE & REDWOOD CITY, Calif., October 18, 2005 – Nominum, the leading provider of IP address infrastructure solutions, and Foundry Networks, Inc. (Nasdaq: FDRY) a performance and total solutions leader for end-to-end switching, routing and application Web switching, today announced that they have joined forces to deliver industry-leading carrier-class DNS (Domain Name System) solution to Enterprise, Service Providers and Carriers for their IP applications and services.
“Foundry and Nominum are known as performance leaders, and no single area of the network is in greater need of a performance upgrade than the DNS infrastructure,” said Tom Tovar, VP Business Development, Nominum. “Nominum‚s DNS servers and Foundry‚s load balancing products deliver a best-in-class DNS solution, offering carriers a proven high performance solution on which to build new IP services.”
DNS application is a critical foundation to deliver high availability and high performance to all IP-based services. Nominum’s cache and authoritative name servers deliver low latency and high-performance DNS service, and Foundry’s award-winning ServerIron application switching and traffic management devices provide on-demand scalability and ultra high availability to the DNS infrastructure. The combined solution leverages purpose-built DNS solutions to provide unparalleled DNS performance, carrier-class availability and robust security. Rapid broadband adoption, increasing mobile and wireless services, voice/data convergence and the emergence of “triple play” services are straining the DNS services traditionally built with open source software. Organizations cannot afford to rely on open source solutions that provide sub-par performance and are vulnerable to malicious attacks. The joint Foundry and Nominum solution also delivers on-demand scalability with the ability to incrementally add server capacity without forklift upgrades.
“As service providers and legacy carriers migrate to IP-based broadband and communication service models, the network, server and DNS infrastructures become essential life support systems,” said Bob Schiff, vice president of product marketing, Foundry Networks. “We chose Nominum to deliver the Industry’s most scalable and high performance DNS solution. The combined solution provides carrier-class availability to the most fundamental IP service.”
“As carriers move to deploy triple play services and accommodate increased level of voice traffic, they require highly reliable, resilient DNS architectures that include load balancing,” said Neil Rickard, Research VP, Gartner.
Nominum Foundation Caching and Authoritative name servers give carriers a cost-effective platform to deliver the utmost in DNS responsiveness and capacity. Foundry ServerIron and Nominum CNS add defense-in-depth security protection and resilience against most DNS attacks. The ServerIron system features DNS rate limiting, filtering, and access policy enforcement to block these attacks before they reach the servers. Nominum CNS supports response validation, selective cache flushing, domain filtering, and on-the-fly server reconfiguration to protect against attacks that bypass network-level checks.
About Nominum
Nominum is the leading provider of IP address infrastructure solutions for Global 2000 companies. Nominum provides the Industry’s highest-performance and highest-availability Internet naming and addressing solutions for the always-on network. Nominum’s Foundation product family includes scalable, reliable and secure DNS and DHCP servers and IP address management (IPAM) systems. These solutions allow service providers to deliver a carrier-grade telecommunications infrastructure that supports the rapidly growing demand for new services, and allows enterprises to create resilient and reliable networks that are responsive to changing business conditions. For further information visit www.nominum.com
Note: Nominum and the Nominum logo are registered trademarks of Nominum Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
About Foundry Networks
Foundry Networks, Inc. (Nasdaq: FDRY) is a leading provider of high-performance enterprise and service provider switching, routing 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, access routers and metro routers. Foundry‚s 8,500 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.foundrynetworks.com.
Note: Foundry Networks, ServerIron, and the “Iron” family of marks are trademarks of Foundry Networks, Inc. All other trademarks are the sole property of their respective holders.