Cloud Computing: Extreme Networks Brings Open Fabric to the Edge

Grazed from eWeek.  Author: Jeffrey Burt.

Extreme Networks officials more than a year ago launched their Open Fabric network architecture in the data center to help businesses deal with such trends as cloud computing, virtualization and mobility. Now the company is extending its Open Fabric capabilities to enterprise campuses. With Open Fabric,

Extreme brought such features as high availability and low latency, low power, automation and open standards to the data center, according to Jake Howering, senior director of marketing for Extreme. The next natural step for Open Fabric is the enterprise, where the influx of mobile devices, virtualization, cloud computing, wireless LANs and software-defined networks (SDNs) is putting new pressures on the network, Howering told eWEEK. And right now, IT administrators are having to manage multiple networks for workloads like unified communications (UC), physical security and WiFi, he said. Such situations are expensive and inefficient. “That isn’t going to scale and let you grow,” he said…


Extreme this quarter will release its Open Fabric Edge technologies, looking to leverage the company’s ExtremeXOS networking operating system and bring UC, physical security systems, audio-video bridging and WLAN onto a single converged network, a move that could offer greater resource efficiency and scalability—from 1 Gigabit Ethernet to 40GbE—and reduce capital expenses in edge networks by as much as 81 percent, according to Extreme officials…

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