Extreme Switch Adds 10-GigE

SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Extreme Networks, Inc. (Nasdaq: EXTR) continues to lead the industry in offering innovative technology at the network edge with its new Summit® 400-48 switch. The latest addition to the Company's Unified Access (UA) architecture for the enterprise edge, the new Summit 400 enables users to avoid costly upgrades as they deploy gigabit to the edge. The Summit 400 is the industry's highest-performance, Layer 3, fixed-configuration switching platform with 101 Mpps throughput and 48 10/100/1000 ports. The new Extreme offering is also the first and only switch on the market with optional 10 Gigabit Ethernet uplinks.The switch is the leading solution for enterprise networks that are embracing advanced applications at the edge, migrating their networks to a single converged infrastructure, and deploying gigabit-to-the-desktop."Extreme Networks' new Summit 400 design removes the uplink bandwidth bottleneck as an issue in deploying gigabit to the desktop," said Dan Morreale, CIO for the North Bronx Healthcare Network. "With any other gigabit edge switch we would be facing a future swap out just to get the performance that the new Extreme product achieves today."Since network managers have to increase their focus on administering applications that require bandwidth management, added reliability and availability, they are in greater need of being able to easily configure Layer 3 capabilities and secure the network. Extreme Networks makes it simple with targeted innovations such as Network Login that works in conjunction with standards-based 802.1x to simplify adding security at the edge. An optional redundant power supply system provides 1:1 power redundancy for high availability environments."The Summit 400 switch embodies an elegant, high performance architecture within a compact form factor that future proofs our research environment with 10 gigabit and potentially greater uplink capability in the future," said Mark Steggert, network manager, SIS, University of Pittsburgh. "This switch represents a new level of accomplishment for Extreme's Summit line of products."Extreme Networks Inc.