FOUNDRY NETWORKS AND WIDE AREA NETWORK DESIGN LAB ANNOUNCE THE AVAILABILITY OF MPLSVIEW AND MPLS TRAFFIC ENGINEERING TOOLS ON FOUNDRY'S NETIRON INTERNET ROUTERS

Foundry and CPLANE Provide Metro Service Providers and Carriers With a High-Performance Service Platform Featuring End-to-End Network Control

San Jose, Calif. - September 11, 2001 - Foundry Networks®, Inc. (NASDAQ: FDRY), a performance and total solutions leader for end-to-end switching and routing, and Wide Area Network Design Lab, WANDL, Inc., the leading supplier of high-end network design, planning, and management tools, announced today that WANDL's MPLSView and MPLS Traffic Engineering Tools have now been extended to include Foundry's NetIron® Internet router product family.

MPLS Traffic Engineering offers service providers an effective tool to combat network congestion while optimally utilizing network resources. It also provides the ability to allocate resources based on traffic classification to achieve different levels of quality of services.

WANDL's MPLSView provides network managers with a powerful solution that contains in-depth graphical views of IP/MPLS routers, LSP tunnels configurations, tunnel path, state, and traffic. MPLSView can extract MPLS/TE data from a live network, perform detail analysis and suggest necessary adjustment to the network to deal with network failure as well as unexpected congestion. When operating in the off-line planning mode, it allows network managers to design LSP tunnel placements based on network-wide resource considerations, and to generate configuration changes that can be applied directly to IP/MPLS routers to minimize manual configuration errors. Furthermore, network managers can use MPLSView to answer many what-if questions on network outages such as fiber cuts and to assess the impact of network growth or re-alignment. The tool is capable of handling multi-layer modeling, traffic load analysis, and delay estimations.

Foundry's NetIron 1500, NetIron 800, and NetIron 400 family of Internet routers supports the full range of MPLS Traffic Engineering functionality, including constraint-based dynamic routing and rerouting of label-switched path (LSP), explicit routing, secondary and hot-standby LSP protection, LSP preemption, resource management, and admission control. With the extension of MPLSView supporting the NetIron Internet routers, Foundry's MPLS-TE features are complemented by WANDL MPLSView's network-wide monitoring, planning, and configuration capabilities.

Key features of WANDL's MPLSView and MPLS Traffic Engineering Tools include:

• Near real time configuration/topology/MPLS TE Tunnels/traffic data collection, parsing, topology Viewing and monitoring
• Integrity Checking
• What-if routing and path analysis
• CoS, CBWFQ model
• MPLS TE with DiffSrv model
• BGP model
• VoIP model
• Network optimization

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