Foundry Networks has announced that the ServerIron family of application delivery switches support secure load balancing for Web conferencing, Voice over IP (VoIP), audio/video conferencing and instant messaging services running on Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007. Foundry’s ServerIron application delivery switches provide enterprise customers, using Office Communications Server 2007, rich features and high performance required to improve the efficiency and uptime in their unified communications services.
“Unified communications will become business critical for most enterprises going forward and our customers look to us for scalable and highly secure application delivery solutions that offer some of the most advanced capabilities,” said Bob Schiff, vice president and general manager for Foundry’s Enterprise Business Unit. “By working with Microsoft, we feel confident that Foundry’s ServerIron application delivery switches will provide users of Office Communications Server 2007 with enhanced performance scalability, high availability and security enhancements without compromising any functionality and quality.”
“The combination of Microsoft’s unified communications software and ServerIron switches provides a powerful new way for people to collaborate while taking the complexity out of communications,” said Yancey Smith, group marketing manager, Unified Communications Group, at Microsoft Corp. “ServerIron complements the features in Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007, powering communication across the applications, networks and devices businesses already know and use.”


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