Nesma Internet launches new services with Foundry

Nesma Internet is a division of Nesma Advanced Technology, and the largest privately owned Internet service provider (ISP) in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA).

Mohammad Bazaraa, Nesma's Technical Manager, expressed his delight. "Several options were evaluated technically and financially from different vendors and we selected Foundry Networks for its technological superiority in performance and stability as well as its very competitive price. We are pleased to work with a company that understands our critical requirements".

Nesma Internet is the only ISP in KSA that offers more than just Internet access. It currently offers a broad range of value added services including online multi-player Internet games, PC-based game servers, and Arabic translation tools.

Nesma has been providing its existing value added services via a reliable and fully redundant platform equipped with the most up-to-date hardware and software comparable to that used by prominent international ISP's.

"Foundry's ServerIron family of application delivery and traffic management switches is the industry leader in high availability, acceleration, security and scalability for business-critical IP, Web and Voice over IP applications making it the best choice for a leading ISP like Nesma,"

said Farook Majeed, regional manager in the Middle East for Foundry Networks.

The ServerIron switches provide a total solution for server load balancing, application (Layer 7) switching, server farm and application security, SSL acceleration, compression, and multi-site redundancy.

The ServerIron family is almost exclusively used by over 2,000 of the world's most demanding organizations.