Abstract

Foundry Networks, Inc. commissioned The Tolly Group to evaluate four of its enterprise-class LAN switches for interoperability with other brand switches in conjunction with our Switch Interoperability 2007 study.

Engineers subjected the Foundry switches to advanced LAN services tests, including support for auto-negotiation, 802.1p/Q VLAN tag propagation, RIP v2, OSPF, BGP, Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol, Advanced Convergence Spanning Tree 802.1w and Jumbo Frames. The Foundry switches achieved interoperability with other switches.

Tests were conducted in April 2007 at Terremark Worldwide Inc.’s world-class NAP of the America’s facility in Miami.