Foundry Networks' award-winning BigIron product family, including the 15-slot BigIron 15000 delivers a new level of high-performance capabilities for enterprise and service provider networks. BigIron's unique IronCore ASIC architecture delivers hardware-based distributed switching and routing that increases the availability of network bandwidth to accommodate the next generation of applications based on data and voice integration, multicast-based video, and other emerging technologies.By providing high performance throughput from the wiring closet into the data center and out to the edge of the WAN, BigIron's non-blocking architecture enables network managers to build scalable and highly available network designs. BigIron delivers the industry leading performance, price/performance and high-density 10/100/1000 Mbps connectivity.