Company announces intelligent, high performance data center switching, analytics and the integration of additional third-party SDN solutions
Extreme Networks announced new products and Technology Solution Partner (TSP) Program members as key enhancements to its Software Defined Architecture, the industry’s first open, standards based and comprehensive data center ecosystem.
Extreme Networks’ Software Defined Architecture delivers robust performance, unified management, application analytics and dynamic data center orchestration for highly virtualized enterprise, cloud/service provider and high performance computing (HPC)/Big Data deployments. By leveraging OneController, an OpenDaylight based SDN platform, customers can harness the innovation velocity fueled by an open source SDN landscape.
Extreme Networks New Data Center Switching and Analytics Products
Summit X670-G2 Switch – New top-of-rack switches available in 48 and 72 port 1RU 10GbE fixed models. Features industry-leading density for 10GbE (72 ports 1RU or 144 ports in 2RU) and best-in-class latency at less than 600ns.
Purview Application Sensor – A new appliance scaling and simplifying the deployment of Purview analytics within data centers.
New Technology Solution Partner (TSP) Program Members
Sanbolic – Provides a software defined storage and application scale out solution for hyper-converged systems that – together with validated Extreme Networks Data Center Bridging solutions for converged network infrastructures – improves availability, load-balancing and user experiences in virtual applications and across multiple locations and clouds by hyper-scaling IT resources to improve data center economics.
A10 Networks – Optimizes north-south traffic flows in global data center interconnect DCI scenarios through VM and topology awareness. Improves data center security by leveraging distributed threat response to protect against suspicious server threats and optimal resource utilization through the integration with the Extreme Networks SDN platform.
NetOptics IXIA – Extends application visibility and analytics into virtualized data center
infrastructures together with Purview for any traffic flows, including inter-VM (east-west) traffic on the hypervisor hosts
Extreme Networks’ Technology Solutions Partner (TSP) Program is a consortium of technology leaders committed to accelerating IT innovation through open, standards based and flexible, high performance network architectures. Leveraging Extreme Networks SDN architecture – which integrates the award-winning OneFabric Control Center, OneController OpenDaylight and OneFabric Connect SDN API – the TSP program focuses on integration, validation and interoperability with technology leaders in the areas of mobility, security, SDN, IT operations, data center, cloud, analytics and convergence. TSP member companies include: Microsoft Palo Alto Networks, AirWatch by VMware, A10 Networks, NetOptics / IXIA and Sanbolic.
Markus Nispel, vice president, Solutions Architecture and Innovation at Extreme Networks
“Extreme Networks commitment to open and multi-vendor based networking through our Software Defined Architecture, the development of our SDN platform leveraging OpenDaylight and cooperation with data center and HPC leaders accelerates the availability of innovative solutions for both our customers and our integration partners.”
