The ServerIron 100 Series complements Foundry's entry-level stackable and high-end, modular load-balancing switches with a midrange offering with best-in-class features and performance. The ServerIron 100 Series products have several high performance capabilities including: capacity for up to seven million concurrent sessions; active-active server and firewall load balancing; protection from Denial of Service (DoS) attacks; and load balancing of large clusters of SSL accelerators regardless of vendor. ServerIron 100 Series products offer up to three times faster Layer 4 and Layer 7 connections per second compared to the ServerIron XL stackable switch, and leads the market in performance.The performance and Gigabit port offerings of ServerIron 100 Series products are ideally suited for enterprise data centers equipped with high performance servers and Gigabit-over-Copper NICs. ServerIron 100 series products have the processing capability to handle date transfer rates associated with high bandwidth applications, such as digital content creation, medical imaging, streaming video, and computer-aided engineering. All models in the ServerIron 100 Series come with TrafficWorks Ironware software that powers the entire ServerIron product family and enables high availability load balancing and security features.The ServerIron 100 - 8G model offers a configuration of 8 Gigabit fiber ports and is targeted for enterprise environments where fiber is the preferred media for connection to servers primarily due to distance or security concerns. The model provides unsurpassed performance for load balancing in this environment.