Santa Clara, California - (The Hosting News) - May 22, 2008 - The 20 million Layer 3 Ethernet port shipment milestone, has been reached, according to research firm, The Dell'Oro Group, for Extreme Networks, Inc.
As the Company delivers high performance networks to enterprises and service providers across the globe, the reported cumulative port growth, continues to provide converged core and edge networks. Over the last year, the Company has expanded its Summit fixed switching portfolio with new high performance models that cover the network, from 10/100 to 10 Gigabit speeds.
Paul Hooper, Chief Marketing Officer for Extreme Networks noted, ''Reaching the twenty million port milestone is a significant achievement demonstrating how our highly effective network solutions, with rich features, innovative software and integrated support for secure convergence, have been accepted around the globe. From our founding, Extreme Networks has offered unique solutions to address a variety of business requirements while ensuring cost-effective, high performing and simple network solutions.''
The newer Summit X150, Summit X250 10/100 switches, the Summit X350 and Summit X450 Gigabit switches and Summit X650 10 Gigabit switch provide a powerful and consistent family of solutions with consistent software and industry-leading stacking performance and management.
Extreme Networks greatly simplifies network solutions to enable its customers to meet their demanding computing and communications needs, from the wired and wireless network edge, to the scalable network core to high performance data centers and Metro Area Networks. Extreme Networks' award-winning network solutions are the first family of LAN switches to feature a modular and extensible operating system, ExtremeXOS®, that helps to reduce the complexity of deployment and daily network management while delivering the security, resiliency and traffic prioritization required for the convergence of data, voice and video.
Extreme Networks designs, builds, and installs Ethernet infrastructure solutions that are designed to solve the toughest business communications challenges. The company's commitment to open networking sets it apart from the alternatives by delivering meaningful insight and unprecedented control to applications and services. Extreme Networks believes openness is the best foundation for growth, freedom, flexibility, and choice. Extreme Networks focuses on enterprises and service providers who demand high performance, converged networks that support voice, video and data, over a wired and wireless infrastructure.
To learn more, please visit: www.extremenetworks.com
