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Extreme and Avaya

Extreme Networks and Avaya have formed a strategic alliance to deliver secure and best of breed, converged network solutions for enterprises to optimise voice, data and video applications on an easily managed robust infrastructure. The alliance will offer jointly developed product and technology solutions as well as Avaya single point of accountability for complete end-to-end networks.

The Extreme Networks and Avaya alliance combines Extreme Networks voice class infrastructure products with Avaya's best in class IP Telephony product solutions.

With more and more enterprises embracing the benefits of IP Telephony such as a single network infrastructure, maintenance, staff, virtual call centres and leased line cost savings, Extreme Networks provides excellent Voice-over-IP (VoIP) performance in four key areas:

High Quality Voice Connections
High Quality of Service (QoS) enabling low latency, low jitter and zero packet loss
Eight QoS queues per port versus four used by most competitors
VoIP traffic can be identified and signaled throughout the network using DiffServ

Voice-Class Availability
Hardware Redundancy - redundancy in management modules, switch fabric and power supplies
Modular operating system with multiple software protocols for network level resiliency
Ethernet Automatic Protection Switching (EAPS) - patented feature providing sub 50 ms failover to standby switches.

Comprehensive Network Security
Role-based policy enforcement to detect and prevent Denial of Service (DoS)
802.1X, Mac-based and Web-based secure login
VLAN voice/data separation
CLEAR-Flow - for monitoring network traffic, to take appropriate action when traffic anomaly conditions are met and to integrate third party security solutions
Layer 3 Virtual Switching for partitioning core switches into security zones.

Simplified Network Management
Extreme Networks management tool EPICentre is designed to manage data, voice, wireless, and other converged solutions
Element management - Switch Configuration, Fault management, Performance monitoring, QoS policy management and inventory
Integrated Avaya IP Telephony management
Wired and Wireless management
Security login/ACLs
Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP) support - for network discovery/topology management
XML APIs to integrate CRM, Call Centre applications, and more