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| ODL Securities Deploys Foundry Switches Foundry Networks announces that ODL Securities has installed Foundry switches to upgrade its network in a deal worth ?300k. As the company has expanded globally, it needed to upgrade to an enterprise-class networking infrastructure with multicast support for its trading applications. To address its networking needs, ODL selected BigIron RX-16 Ethernet switches, NetIron XMR Internet core routers, FastIron GS compact PoE switches, and ServerIron application switches, allowing ODL customers to trade foreign exchange shares and derivatives twenty four hours a day. ODL has chosen Foundry for this project because its BigIron RXs could offer unparalleled support for multicast trading applications, which ODL uses to deliver information to a group of destinations simultaneously over each network link. High performance solutions, such as the ServerIron, which provides load-balancing capabilities, guaranteeing web response by transparently steering the customer to the least busy web server, also drove ODL to choose Foundry for this project. In addition to the criticality of multicast support the ability to uplink to the network core through 10 Gigabit Ethernet was important to ODL because it provides users with faster and guaranteed access to the trading platforms via the Internet. ODL will run databases and multicast trading applications on the new network, as well as web and application servers. To improve network security, it will look to activate Foundry's sFlow technology in the future to track activity on the network at a byte level. sFlow technology enables network managers to understand all the possible traffic flows, bandwidth requirements, performance implications, security threats, and billing allocations on the network. By embedding sFlow technology into a network router and switch ASICs, Foundry delivers an "always-on" technology that operates at wire speed performance. write your comments about the article :: © 2007 Networking News :: home page |