Extreme Networks^® of Santa Clara, California, founded in 1996, is a publicly listed company that designs, builds, and installs sophisticated Ethernet solutions that meet the toughest challenges in network connectivity and IP-based communications.

Throughout its history, the Company has delivered more than 15 Million Ethernet ports and has established a presence in more than 50 countries. The Company increases the value of the network with its advanced software platforms that deliver meaningful insight and control to applications and services. This helps corporate enterprises and service providers who must have high performance, secure networks that support converged voice, video and data. Intelligence is enhanced with an extensible, flexible and secure protocol-based communication capability, allowing devices to talk to one another.

Extreme Networks addresses a wide range of customers with wired and wireless network infrastructures. From corporate enterprises such as manufacturers, retailers, financial institutions, utilities and healthcare organizations, to large universities and K-12 school districts to federal and local governments worldwide.

To complement its products, Extreme Networks provides a complete selection of professional services and custom offerings, including network design, enhanced visibility into flows and applications, voice and security testing, network kit implementation as well as technical assistance on a 24×7 basis to a global footprint.

Scalable and Agile Switching Solutions for Data Centres

The Data Centre is undergoing significant transformation. A daunting volume of complex architecture and technology decisions for the data centre infrastructure face enterprises and hosting providers. Highly virtualised server and storage environments coupled with a large increase in computational density in the server rack drive this complexity. With the advent of virtualisation and blade servers, data centre managers witness a proliferation of switches to manage in their network.

Key Benefits:

Performance

Experience industry-leading performance through high-density 1-10 GbE switches, scalable to 40G and 100G that deliver low latency system architecture with carrier class resiliency.

Agility

Offers and extensible development platform with the modular ExtremeXOS operating system across the full product line from the network edge to core that supports XML integration and widgets for rapid deployment of new functionality and features.

Affordability

Delivers affordability with fully featured, highly scalable solutions that simplify management, preserve network design equity and conserve energy at competitive price points.

Extreme Networks Solutions for Enterprise networks

Enterprise networks are being called upon to manage risk, improve productivity, enhance the customers’ experience, increase network responsiveness and manage growth and change. Further challenged by budget limitations, security and regulatory imperatives, projects that deliver rich infrastructure capabilities, high security and flawless operations are testing network professionals like never before. Extreme Networks is responding with solutions and services that provide secure, highly available connectivity for voice, video and data to a discerning and highly mobile user community. In today’s world, your infrastructure partner matters. We can help you solve your toughest networking challenges.

Enterprise Network Applications

A switching infrastructure from Extreme Networks supports multiple users, devices and traffic types. Their engaged network can help you automate time-consuming management tasks to improve efficiencies and increase productivity. Policy-based Quality of Service and advanced traffic management capabilities help you solve tough voice, video and data challenges.

To deliver continuous connectivity, Extreme Networks offers availability innovations in operating system, switching hardware and network protocols. ExtremeXOS is a modular software architecture that isolates critical functions and reduces the impact of software upgrades and failures. Our hardware products are designed to reduce the impact of common failures ranging from cooling fans to power supplies. Our pioneering Ethernet Automatic protection Switching (EAPS) protocol delivers fast network recovery times for continuous, high quality Voice-over-IP services.

A New Network Security Model

Innovative VSRs from Extreme Networks engage the network to detect security violations and enforce policy. When the network participates in the security process, enterprises can enjoy extended coverage without risking outages caused by in-line security devices. The VSR model greatly improves responsiveness by leveraging the network to dramatically shorten the time between detection and mitigation.

Metro Ethernet Transport Solutions for Service Providers Worldwide

The adoption of Carrier Ethernet is growing tremendously, fueled by the growing acceptance of Ethernet as the answer to the industry’s bandwidth scalability issues. The increasing disparity between provider revenue streams and the amount of resources consumed by bandwidth-intensive services such as P2P and video streaming is causing service providers to increase their investment in metro Ethernet transport infrastructure. Designed from the ground-up for this new carrier reality, the Extreme Networks carrier Ethernet solution gives service providers the tools they need to complete effectively while satisfying their customers’ needs and expectations.

Key Benefits

Get ahead of your customers’ growing demand for bandwidth

• Industry-leading system capacities
• System architectures that enable migration to 40GbE and 100GbE
• Long service life with simple capacity and switch fabric upgrades

Increase revenue with switch resources that scale to match the available bandwidth

• Hardware-based Hierarchical QoS scales to hundreds of thousands of applications
• Multicast scaling to tens of thousands of streams with dedicated multicast priority queues
• vMAN service multiplexing and cross connect for efficient network-to-network interfaces

Drive profitability with unmatched price performance

• Ethernet infrastructure provides lowest cost per bit transport
• Layer 2 scaling options including PBT, PBB and VPLS avoid the complexity and expense of L3 MPLS in the metro
• Simplified deployment and management reduces ongoing operational costs.

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