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Complete Foundry switch has an edge over dedicated Cisco box.
SUNNYVALE, CALIF- Feisty Foundry Networks is winning over some Cisco server load-balancing customers, replacing the dedicated Cisco box with more general purpose Layer 3 and Layer 4 switches.
Based on low prices, shrewd mat keting and a versatile product line, Foundry has been convincing some IT managers to replace the aging Cisco Local Director with Foundry's ServerIron 10/100/1000 switch.
"It's not that Local Director is an awful product," says Matt Davis, manager of corporate NT operations at Republic Industries."It's a very basic low-end product without a lot of the functionality you can find on the Foundry products"
Davis was using four redundant pairs of Local Directors for nearly a year to distribute traffic on the company's Web sites. That's no small task, because Republic Industries owns National CarRental, Alamo,...