Reliance uses Foundry’s switches into 10GbE animation production network

Bangalore: Foundry Networks Inc., provides solutions for end-to-end switching and routing, announced that Big Animation (India) Pvt Ltd (formerly known as AniRights Infomedia Pvt Ltd), animation company and the animation arm of Reliance-Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group Company (ADAG) has 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 claims that the BigIron RX switch, fitted with the MRJ21 line card modules, provides a high-density platform to deliver high performance connections to the artists, servers and redundant 10GbE uplinks. Their animation production network utilizes 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 (India) Pvt Ltd, said, “We evaluated several competitive offerings from top 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.”

Chandra Kopparappu, vice president for Asia Pacific at Foundry Networks, stated, “We are delighted to welcome India’s animation industry leader, Big Animation (India) Pvt Ltd, to our large base of enterprise customers from around the world. 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.”

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