Foundry Networks' SecureIron perimeter traffic managers offer an all-in-one security and traffic management solution for the enterprise perimeter. These products deliver high-performance Layer 2 through 7 switching, security, and traffic management to augment existing traditional firewalls and optimize application performance over the WAN. The SecureIron switches are designed with hardware-based architecture to protect the enterprise infrastructure against multi-gigabit network- and application-layer threats. They are purpose-built for inline deployment as a front-end to traditional firewalls for security augmentation and feature offload. With highly-advanced ISP link aggregation and bandwidth management, the SecureIron traffic managers maximize WAN utilization and optimize application performance across multiple ISP links providing Internet connectivity. The SecureIron intelligently distributes traffic over multiple ISP links and provides automatic failover for high availability Internet access without the need for complex Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) routing. The traffic managers allow organizations to customize bandwidth allocation and usage for business-critical application traffic to ensure optimized performance and always-on delivery.
Features:
* High performance security enhancement at the enterprise perimeter with offload of traditional firewalls to extend their life and protect the investment
* Highly scalable network-based Spam mitigation and Web security to prevent abusive use of the internal network and Internet bandwidth
* Highly-advanced Internet WAN link and Firewall traffic management for maximized bandwidth use and optimized delivery of critical application traffic.
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