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Santa Clara, California - (Cheap Web Hosting Directory) - June 8, 2007 - Privately-held Internet managed hosting company, Jupiter Hosting, is standardizing its architecture, by utilizing Foundry Networks, in a 10 gigabit ethernet access circuit upgrade, throughout Silicon Valley.

Jupiter Hosting has reported significant progress towards achieving the ambitious, multifaceted expansion plan, with the installation of a new core-to-edge network infrastructure comprised exclusively of switching and routing solutions by Foundry Networks. In total, Jupiter Hosting plans to incorporate and deploy over 40 new Foundry switches and routers in their rapidly growing network. Due to exponential growth in its high-volume bandwidth services, Jupiter Hosting needed to engineer an entirely new edge-to-core network infrastructure in order to meet immediate capacity needs. The company also required the ability to scale efficiently without service interruption, while reducing maintenance costs across the backbone. Another goal of the network redesign was reducing the physical link count in the backbone.

To accomplish the objectives, Jupiter Hosting aggregated all upstream and peering transit to 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) links. The new backbone and border architecture is comprised of Foundry Networks award-winning NetIron XMR 4000 and 16000 backbone routers, which are configured to provide N+1 redundancy while supporting up to 81Gbps of IP transit. The new design will also boast the ability to efficiently scale to accommodate traffic flows of approximately 200 Gbps within the coming years, as expected growth demands further expansion. At the edge of the network, Jupiter Hosting has upgraded all edge services, using GbE to connect to each managed hosting platform. As a result of this improvement, the company’s next-generation network is now comprised of more than 2,000 GbE interfaces, making it the largest managed hosting company providing copper GbE to each managed server platform.

Ray Taft, President and CEO of Jupiter Hosting remarked, ”This new network took more than a year to design and plan. From the beginning of the process, the upgrade was a collaborative effort between Jupiter Hosting and Foundry Networks. Our network now has a complete platform architecture that will scale to accommodate future bandwidth and service expansion. Our guarantee of maximum throughput and uninterrupted 24×7 services is not just a marketing tagline; it’s a serious promise Jupiter Hosting makes to our customers. We wanted an updated design that would position us to stay ahead of the curve as an industry leader in broadband media delivery. Only Foundry Networks offers a class of products with the advanced capabilities to meet our needs. From an engineering standpoint, there was no other vendor that came close.”

It is anticipated that the efficiency and reduced maintenance requirements of the new network architecture will substantially reduce Jupiter Hosting’s long-term operational costs, a financial benefit that will also help support and facilitate the company’s plans for future growth and development. Perhaps most importantly, the improved backbone will only increase Jupiter Hosting’s ability to provide its customers maximum uptime, extremely reliable service delivery, and an optimal Internet experience.

Ken Cheng, Vice President and General Manager for Foundry Networks’ High End and Service Provider Systems Business Unit offered, ”We are very pleased that Jupiter Hosting has selected Foundry’s routing and switching solutions for the delivery of advanced managed hosting services,” said “Service providers require a future-ready platform for the delivery of advanced services, and Foundry’s switching and routing solutions deliver this while also providing high availability, scalability, and the performance essential for successful IP service deployments.”

Jupiter Hosting was incorporated in April of 2003 and remains one of the largest privately-held Internet managed hosting companies in the United States. The company specializes in managed hosting for firms with high traffic volumes or complex hosting requirements. Working within the OSI seven-layer model, Jupiter Hosting provides simple dedicated and complex managed web hosting and web infrastructures for over 10,000 Internet properties. With a client base comprised largely of new and traditional media, entertainment, and broadcast companies, Jupiter Hosting has emerged as an industry leader in providing support for high-bandwidth applications such as IPTV, Video-on-Demand, and Progressive Download of Video content over the Internet. Other areas of specialization include IP bandwidth provisioning, server clustering, and application or database installation.

Foundry Networks, Inc. is a provider of high-performance enterprise and service provider switching, routing, security and Web traffic management solutions, including Layer 2/3 LAN switches, Layer 3 Backbone switches, Layer 4-7 application switches, wireless LAN and access points, and metro routers. Foundry’s customers include the world’s premier ISPs, metro service providers, and enterprises, including e-commerce sites, universities, entertainment, health and wellness, government, financial and manufacturing companies.

To learn more about Foundry Networks, Inc., please visit: www.foundrynet.com.

For more information about Jupiter Hosting, please visit: www.jupiterhosting.com.

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