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Foundry Networks, a performance and total solutions leader for end-to-end switching and routing, today announced that the BigIron RX Series of Layer 2/3 Ethernet switches won the prestigious China Computer World Award for performance and innovation. "Foundry's BigIron RX Series switch won the 'product of the Year 2005' award because it integrates state-of-art technologies and is the industry's first billion packet per second switch," said YuZhong Jin, senior IT journalist and publisher for China Computer World. The BigIron RX Series excels in application convergence, non-stop operation, scalability and IPv6-readiness. It incorporates the latest advances in switch architecture, quality of service (QoS), and switch security in a family of modular chassis setting leading industry benchmarks for price performance, scalability, and total cost of ownership (TCO). Available in three chassis models, the BigIron RX Series allows network designers to standardize on a single product family for aggregation and backbone switching. In addition to its enterprise role, the BigIron RX Series, with its high-density and compact design, is an ideal IP solution for high-performance computing environments, Internet Exchanges, and Internet Service Providers (IXPs and ISPs), where non-blocking, high density Ethernet switches are required. "We are pleased Foundry's BigIron RX series switch won the China Computer World Award for innovation and performance," said Bobby Johnson, president and chief executive officer for Foundry Networks. "The BigIron RX is designed from the ground up to be an integral component in business-critical networks. Its performance, reliability, scalability, quality of service, and lower total cost of ownership surpass competitor offerings, putting it in a class of its own." Founded in 1980 by the joint efforts of the Ministry of Information Industry of China and the American IDG Group, China Computer World is the first comprehensive publication to focus on the IT industry. Today it is the most influential IT publication in China and aims to report on the development trends within China's IT industry. It is the top ranking IT publication by advertising revenue and it also co-hosts multiple important industry trade shows. China Computer World's main audience includes corporate users, IT professionals, joint venture company employees, and managers from state-owned enterprises.