Extreme is committed to solving the single, defining business problem for the early 21st century: implementing the most effective applications and services infrastructure. This way, companies can keep up with the increasing demand for mission-critical applications and services, in order to better meet business objectives and gain a competitive advantage.

Carrier Ethernet

Service providers offering triple play services are seeing increased revenue and customer retention. These services also place new demands on the network such as carrier class availability, Quality of Service (QoS), resiliency and scalability. Extreme Networks' carrier-class Ethernet Infrastructure meets these demands with high performance switching solutions that support both residential triple play services and MEF certified business services on a common platform to maximize revenue opportunities.

Deploying triple play services requires features such as Hierarchical-Quality of Service (H-QoS) and line-rate multicast capabilities to deliver high-speed Internet, Voice-over-IP (VoIP) and IPTV. Extreme Networks three tier H-QoS allows the service provider to assign a committed rate and a peak rate per port, per subscriber and per application for precise bandwidth control across the network.

The acceptance and spread of Ethernet services led to significant network growth in both geographic coverage area and number of subscribers. To address this, Extreme Networks offers a variety of standards-based options to scale carrier Ethernet networks. With support for Provider Bridging (vMAN), Provider Backbone Bridging (MAC-in-MAC) and MPLS based VPLS and H-VPLS, Ethernet networks can now scale beyond the metro to nationwide multi-provider networks. Layer 2 OAM capabilities like Connectivity Fault Management allow efficient troubleshooting of these large networks.

In a system where every TV viewer is monitoring the network performance, resiliency is also a critical factor in the design. Extreme Networks delivers a robust platform with resiliency at three levels. Redundant management and switching modules and redundant power supplies deliver hardware resiliency while software resiliency is supplied through the modular ExtremeXOS™ operating system. Resiliency at the network level is provided with Ethernet Automatic Protection Switching.

Key Benefits:

• Allows new differentiated services such as video on demand, VoIP and high-speed Internet access with strict service level agreements to subscribers
• Enables IPTV deployments with high-performance QoS and multicast support
• Eliminates the expense of building multiple overlay networks for triple play deployments
• Lowers costs by enabling higher customer density through controlled over-subscription of the network
• MEF Certified equipment simplifies business service deployment

IP Telephony

Security

As businesses networks grow, securing business networks becomes imperative. The task of securing networks however, is growing in complexity. The sheer number of known vulnerabilities keeps growing, and attacks are growing in sophistication with polymorphic viruses and blended attacks in the wild now. In addition networks are increasingly at risk from another popular trend - mobility.

With the growth of wireless networks and increasing mobility, the potential for a laptop to pick up malicious code is heightened, and with more potentially infected end-points plugging into a network, the number of internal threat-sources rises as well. Increased sophistication of attacks, mobility and ever increasing numbers of known vulnerabilities make it easier for hackers to launch a crippling widespread attack within a day of the announcement of a new vulnerability. Day-Zero attacks are an imminent threat now.

Living under the sword of an imminent Day-Zero attack can be alleviated with appropriate counter-measures such as defense-in-depth security strategies. Designed to help network and security administrators monitor, detect, analyze and enforce mitigation policies within seconds of a new attack, the Security Solutions from Extreme Networks® provide a comprehensive and highly scalable solution for 1 gigabit and 10 gigabit networks that is easy to manage and deploy.

Extreme Networks' security solution consists of secure switches, CLEAR-Flow Security Rules Engine and the Sentriant® Virtualized Security Resources (VSRs). The secure switches are packed with security features that help the network administrator to address operational necessities like user and usage policies, various security attacks, internal firewalling, etc. CLEAR-Flow Security Rules Engine provides first order threat detection and mitigation and mirrors traffic to VSRs for further analysis of suspicious traffic in the network. VSRs are the final piece in the ESF. VSRs are virtually available across the entire multi-gigabit network thus enabling cost-effective scalability of the security solution.

Day-Zero threats can incapacitate your business and demand the highest levels of security applicable on every wired or wireless end-point and across every element of a converged network. Day-Zero threats demand nothing less than Extreme security solutions.

Wireless

Today's leading Enterprises know that mobility drives productivity. Mission-critical wireless applications are being deployed in hospitals, retail environments, manufacturing and distribution, educational facilities, as well as in corporate conference room and offices. Wireless devices range from laptops to scanner guns, to latency-sensitive Voice over Wireless LAN (VoWLAN) handsets. Each type of device offers installation, performance, security, and management challenges. To compound the challenge, resource-constrained IT departments do not have the luxury to hire dedicated resources for wireless support.

Extreme Networks® meets these needs with wireless solutions that offer installation and operational simplicity, highly-scalable performance, and essential wireless and wired security. These solutions are designed to remove the complexity from wireless details such as Radio Frequency (RF) eccentricities, wireless Quality of Service (QoS) and security. Installation is easy and enterprise-grade reliability ensures that IT managers do not get wireless support calls in the middle of the night.

Complimenting wireless solutions from Extreme Networks are the knowledgeable professional services and support offered by Extreme and its authorized partners. Experience and leading-edge networking knowledge enable these professionals to smoothly install wireless solutions in your network so that your users, devices, and applications can quickly provide productivity and cost-savings benefits to your organization.