Foundry Networks'innovative, highly compact and modular ServerIronGT C Series switches provide high performance application switching and Web optimization, enabling highly secure and ultra high availability server and application infrastructure. These switches deliver the convenience and size of an appliance without sacrificing high availability, port expandability and performance upgradeability to accommodate growth in application traffic. The highly intelligent ServerIron application switches use information that resides beyond the traditional Layer 2 and 3 packet headers, deep in the application messages, to direct client transactions to appropriate servers. ServerIronGT C Series switches maximize application availability and provide robust security by defeating many forms of DoS and application-level attacks. They act as a reliable last line of defense for critical servers and applications.