Although it missed out on the gold, ServerIron from Foundry captured high ratings for its server and load balancing capabilities and snagged the silver in our ADC category. Foundry's ServerIron family of application delivery and traffic management switches is aimed at business-critical IP, Web and VoIP applications, according to the company. The ServerIron provides a total solution for server load balancing, Layer 7 switching, server farm and application security, SSL acceleration, compression, and multi-site redundancy.

More than 85% of survey respondents rated the Foundry ServerIron good or excellent when dealing with server and load balancing. In addition, almost 70% of users thought that ServerIron's server offloading was good or excellent. Also receiving high marks were the product's security offerings.