Brocade has announced that the NetIron CER 2000 compact MPLS router was selected as a Best of Show Award recipient at Interop Tokyo 2010. The NetIron CER 2000 was awarded the Special Prize in the Carrier / Service Provider Network Infrastructure Products category. This distinction builds upon the recent industry recognition Brocade garnered at RSA 2010 for Best New Offering and Best of Tech-Ed 2010.

The Best of Show Award winners were selected from more than 300 networking solutions and were judged by a panel of IT industry experts at Interop Tokyo 2010. The NetIron CER 2000 Series router was selected based on its leading performance and advanced feature set within a cost-effective compact form factor.

"It's an honor and accomplishment to be recognized as a leader in the Service Provider infrastructure market," said Ken Cheng, vice president of Service Provider Products for Brocade. "Our focus on innovation and product excellence helps our customers maximize the full potential of their critical services and network infrastructure. As Carriers and Service Providers continue to experience escalating data traffic growth, the NetIron CER 2000 helps enable network architects to design advanced infrastructures with unparalleled performance, investment protection and high availability."

The Brocade NetIron CER 2000 Series is a family of compact 1U routers that are purpose-built for high-performance service provider edge routing and large data center applications. These fixed-form routers address the needs of customers who are facing increased demands for edge routing and are nearing the performance limitations of their current network infrastructures. Combining industry-leading forwarding capacity with compelling price/performance value, the NetIron CER 2000 helps service providers and data center customers expand the types of advanced services they can deploy in their network to significantly decrease cost, while generating new value-added service offerings.