Atheer Internet Services opts for Foundry in the Kingdom

Mohammed S. Al Kahatani, Atheer's newly appointed GM said, "We (Atheer) are expanding exponentially and have ambitious plans to upgrade our architecture to better serve our customers. We have selected Foundry's NetIron routers and ServerIron application switches as part of this upgrade because they are capable of meeting our current and future infrastructure expansion."

Atheer is a leading Internet Service Provider in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. It provides Internet services under the brand name "Atheer Internet Services" and offers a wide range of Internet related solutions and services for residential users, enterprises and large Government organizations.

"We are very pleased to be Atheer's vendor of choice as part of its network expansion plans to continue to offer the latest advances in Internet related services to its customers," said Gary Hemminger, director of L4-7 product management for Foundry Networks.

"While our NetIron routers provide unparalleled, wire-speed performance for IP/MPLS routing and switching combined with advanced packet processing and traffic management capabilities; our ServerIron family of application delivery and traffic management switches is an industry leader in high availability, acceleration, security and scalability for business-critical IP, Web and VoIP applications. These additions to Atheer's network should significantly improve the efficiencies of the internal operations and provide an excellent user experience for their growing base of customers."

Atheer plan to offer its upgraded services via a reliable and fully redundant platform equipped with the most up-to-date hardware and software similar to that used by major international ISP's. According to Jiji Joseph, Operations Manager (ISP), "several options were evaluated from different vendors and Foundry Networks was selected not just for its technological superiority in performance and stability, but also competitive in price."