Extreme Networks Continues to Expand and Enhance ExtremeXOS

Company Continues to Expand and Enhance ExtremeXOS, the Market's Only Mature, Open, Modular Operating System Available From Core to Edge: Extreme Networks today announced that after three years, its customers are celebrating the benefits of the enterprise industry's most mature modular network operating system, ExtremeXOS, available with its award-winning BlackDiamond and Summit switching platforms. After winning numerous industry accolades and helping customers solve their toughest networking challenges, Extreme Networks® now looks forward to unleashing the intelligence and potential of networks by continuing to deliver innovative new approaches to high system availability, true simplicity and XML-based application integration with its software. Originally introduced by Extreme Networks with the scalable BlackDiamond 10K core switch, December 2003, and now available on numerous BlackDiamond and Summit series switches, ExtremeXOS has been delivered to a wide range of enterprise and service provider customers worldwide. It was recognized as the "Most Visionary" technology by the editors of Network Magazine in 2005 and was at the heart of 10 Gigabit networking solutions that were named InfoWorld Magazine's Technology of the Year in 2004, 2005 and 2007. The operating system was also an integral part of the technology used for the University of Illinois at Chicago's winning entry in the Supercomputing 2006 Bandwidth Challenge and a part of the 2005 winning entry from CalTech. These accomplishments are attributed to the unique ability of ExtremeXOS to deliver meaningful insight and unprecedented control to networked applications and operational personnel. The resulting engaged network helps customers solve complex networking problems with solutions that promote system availability, high reliability, and secure operation. Additionally, the operating system supports the open-standard XML protocol, making ExtremeXOS the industry's first solution to provide significant opportunities for application integration. "At UC Merced, we have benefited greatly from using the ExtremeXOS operating system in our campus network, one that has evolved and grown for our needs over the past 18 months," said Richard Kogut, CIO for the University of California Merced. "This is due to its unique modularity that results in increased network availability and system reliability on our Ethernet switches, and is complemented by intelligence to support convergence and security." "After more than three years of serving our customers with this innovative operating system, and at a time when the industry is waking up to the benefits of modular network operating systems, we are pleased to mark this anniversary with the completion of our transition to a single, modular core-to-edge software solution," said Paul Hooper, vice president of marketing for Extreme Networks. The ExtremeXOS operating system today carries converged communications and mission-critical applications progressively forward. Its industry-leading and unique ability to support loadable software modules enables innovations such as porting to Avaya's Converged Network Analyzer, that are present on the switch with no additional hardware required.