Dufferin-Peel Catholic School District Board selects high-performance Ethernet from Extreme Networks to connect 122 schools

April 22, 2003

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SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Extreme Networks, Inc., (Nasdaq: EXTR), a leader in Ethernet networking, today announced that it is working with the Dufferin-Peel Catholic School District Board of Ontario to implement a high-performance Ethernet network with support for advanced applications and services over a fiber-connected network for its 88,000 students. Extreme Networks' family of switching solutions, offering improved simplicity and performance for converged applications, made an exact fit for Dufferin-Peel, allowing it to cost-effectively upgrade systems at all of its 122 schools. School administrators are looking forward to the ability to consolidate resources thereby reducing the number of servers. This reduction will inevitably result in lower support costs and a more robust, secure, stable environment for students, faculty and staff. Extreme Networks' switching platforms were selected for their superior Quality of Service (QoS), low latency and resiliency in a cost-effective package. This implementation has resulted in a robust network foundation that is essential for e-learning and applications that make use of video-on-demand, videoconferencing, VoIP and high-speed storage applications. Dufferin-Peel is combining Extreme Networks' family of high-performance BlackDiamond(R) and Alpine(TM) switching platforms over its fiber-connected MAN. Modular switches support the core of the network feeding traffic to Extreme's Summit(R) switches at the edge. With advanced bandwidth management features, Dufferin-Peel's data traffic containing file services, streaming media, Web-based HTML transactions and data management for storage and replication are easily shared and protected over Dufferin-Peel's various connections. "The future of higher performance, intelligent switching infrastructure that supports e-learning is here, compelling our organization to undergo this significant upgrade of our systems," said John Steele, CIO for Dufferin-Peel Catholic School District Board. "We have done this by implementing a complete IP network from Extreme Networks, where our school district gains a solid network foundation on which to build the e-learning environment of the future." Extreme Networks Inc.

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