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Networking:
Extreme Networks Eliminates Costly
Upgrades W/ 48-Port Switch
Extreme Networks Inc 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.
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"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 at the University of Pittsburgh. "This switch
represents a new level of accomplishment for Extreme's Summit line of
products."
"With the Summit 400, we allow users to skip several costly upgrade cycles
and
thereby save money over the long run," said Varun Nagaraj, vice president of
product management for Extreme Networks. "Our new Summit switch addresses
three challenges that are becoming critical as more and more users deploy
gigabit edge connectivity -- adding new Layer 3 services, maintaining high
performance as those services are added and avoiding uplink chokepoints."
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