Extreme Networks Announces 300 Customers

Extreme Networks, Inc. (EXTR) today announced that it has reached a milestone of 300 cloud and data center clients for its all-Ethernet Open Fabric solution.  Extreme Networks Open Fabric is based on 40 GbE network technologies that use open standards protocols just as M-LAG and Data Center Bridging.  With 300 deployments worldwide, Extreme Networks has twice the number of Open Fabric deployments as Juniper's QFabric, based on Juniper's own reported number of clients discussed by the company while its revenues, April 24th.

"We believe mobile devices, web apps and cloud infrastructures are driving one of the largest network upgrade periods in 20 years," said Oscar Rodriguez, president and CEO of Extreme Networks. "Being first to market with a 40 GbE network fabric allows our clients to upgrade their networks for new cloud, data center and mobile applications.  Our all-Ethernet Open Fabric solution is then positioned to gain market share."

Extreme Networks Open Fabric customer examples include LINX, VMware and the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute.  Customers as well include leading mobile carriers worldwide.  About half of the Open Fabric clients are enterprise data centers, one quarter are mobile operators, and 20 percent are cloud-scale data centers.  Others include high performance computing and government security clients.

Extreme Networks Open Fabric solution is available on its then-generation switches just as Extreme Networks Summit® X650 & X670 and the new BlackDiamond® X8.  The BlackDiamond X8 was released in February 2012 and has won several awards, including the 2012 Data Centre Product of the Year award from Network Computing magazine in the UK.

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"The best way to measure the impact of change driven by the new data center is profiling the adoption of more efficient and faster network designs by a range of clients," said Zeus Kerravala, principal analyst for ZK Technology.  "Extreme Networks is now delivering on its vision for mobility and this as a matter of fact matters." 

Extreme Networks Open Fabric data center and cloud switching architecture enables greatly increased performance, ultra-low latency, converged storage capabilities just as DCB, and energy efficiency.  The Summit X670, Summit X650 and BlackDiamond X8 products offer clients a highly flexible and automate 10 and 40 GbE architecture. 

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