Foundry Networks, a performance and solutions provider for end-to-end switching and routing, has announced that Big Animation (formerly known as AniRights Infomedia), a leading animation company and an arm of Reliance – ADAG, has incorporated and installed Foundry's BigIron RX backbone and FastIron Series Layer 2/3 switches into its high-performance 10 gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) animation production network.

Foundry's latest customer in India, Big Animation must remain on the cutting edge of technology to produce advanced animation effects. The company's production network requires extremely high performance and reliability levels to generate groundbreaking animation. They currently leverage a BigIron RX Series backbone switch and multiple FastIron family of compact layer 2/3 switches to back their 10GbE production network core. The BigIron RX switch, fitted with the MRJ21 line card modules,
provides a high-density platform to deliver high performance connections to artists, servers and redundant 10GbE uplinks.

Their animation production network utilises hundreds of processors to create a high performance computing (HPC) environment completely connected by Foundry networking solutions to create highly advanced visual effects.

Ashish S K, CEO, Big Animation, said, "We evaluated several competitive offerings from various networking vendors, before selecting Foundry Networks for our network infrastructure requirement. Since our network mandates superior performance and high scalability, it was important for us to partner with a technologically stronger networking vendor with a complete end-to-end solution set. Non-blocking and wire-speed performance at very high port densities are critical for us and Foundry provides us with more than double the 10GbE and 1GbE ports in a single shelf system than competing offerings. The high performance Ethernet infrastructure from Foundry currently deployed in our facility supports our current and future networking needs preparing us to expand our network capabilities as we expand operations."

"As a leading animation studio, Big Animation network is an integral part of their daily business, with bandwidth, security and network reliability being critical requirements to success. Foundry's network infrastructure allows Big Animation to fulfill these important business needs, while reducing capital and operational expenditures," said Chandra Kopparappu, vice president for Asia Pacific at Foundry Networks.

The BigIron RX Series of Layer 2/3 Ethernet backbone switches incorporates the latest advances in switch architecture, system resilience, quality of service (QoS) and switch security in a family of modular chassis setting. In addition to its HPC role such as in Big Animation Studios' network, the BigIron RX Series, with its high-density and compact design, is an ideal IP solution for enterprises, data centres, data mining and Internet Exchanges and Internet Service Providers (IXPs and ISPs) where non-blocking, high-density Ethernet switches are a requirement.