China's Number One Search Engine Baidu Selects Foundry as Their Networking Solution Provider

October 4, 2006; 02:18 AM

Foundry Networks(r), Inc., a performance and total solutions leader for end-to-end switching and routing, announced that Baidu, the leading Chinese language Internet search provider, deployed Foundry's 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) LAN and application switching solutions to meet their current and future traffic demands. Baidu's extensive network currently handles up to 50 percent of Internet search activities throughout China.

After extensive testing, it was clear that Foundry's solutions delivered the performance needed to meet Baidu's current requirements, while also future-proofing its network and server farm infrastructure to incrementally scale with its constantly increasing traffic demands. Baidu is using Foundry's 10GbE high-performance switches for its connections between their network backbone and server farms. To maximize large-scale network and server performance, Foundry's application switches are leveraged for load balancing massive amounts of traffic between servers while protecting Baidu from malicious Denial of Service (DoS) attacks that may cause service disruption and compromise sensitive information and data.

"As the leading Chinese language Internet search provider, high availability and on-demand scalability are fundamental requirements for us," said Mr. JianGuo Liu, chief technology officer for Baidu. "Foundry's high-performance networking solution provides our business the performance we demand and easily supports our current traffic load with ample room for growth."

Highly available and scalable performance is critical to the success of Baidu. Foundry's advanced 10GbE switches and application switches allow Baidu to scale server farm capacity on-demand and incrementally grow their network capacity as traffic demands increase. Additional servers can be brought online seamlessly without significant impact to their operations or customers.

"We are pleased to be the networking solution provider for Baidu, the leading Chinese language Internet search provider," said Chandra Kopparapu, vice president of sales and marketing, Asia Pacific, for Foundry Networks. "This mission critical installation reaffirms Foundry's leadership in offering high performance networking solutions in both the enterprise and service provider marketplace."

Foundry Networks, Inc. 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, access routers and metro routers. Foundry's 10,000 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.