Skip to main content

Switches

Core Switching Products

The exacting demands of IP Telephony deployments, enterprise aggregation, corporate data centers and network backbones, and metro Ethernet provider Points of Presence require solutions that combine consistent performance, carrier-class availability, enhanced security and simplified management. BlackDiamond® core switching products from Extreme Networks® are designed and built to deliver these critical capabilities.

These switches minimize latency and jitter, which degrade the quality of voice and video applications. They're also highly resilient, a key aspect of voice-class availability using technologies such as Ethernet Automatic Protection Switching (EAPS) link resiliency standard to provide sub-50-millisecond link failover recovery time. Our multi-layered approach to security helps safeguard your network and leverages best-of-breed appliances and partners, so you can implement the security architecture that's best for you. Our products share the same user interface and management framework, ensuring end-to-end simplicity, which is even more critical now with a single, converged network that carries all of an organization's voice, video and data traffic.

Aggregation Switching Products

Particularly in the large enterprise network, there is the middle layer between core and edge which is called the aggregation layer.

In the aggregation layer, aggregation switches are required to play an important role of aggregating traffic from large number of edge switches to be forwarded to the core switches as well as receiving traffic from core to distribute towards edge switches. The aggregation switches need to process packets between core and edge switches, and must be secure, reliable and have simplified management.

BlackDiamond® 8800 series switches, Summit® X450 and Summit X450a switching products from Extreme Networks® are designed and built to deliver these critical capabilities.

Edge Switching Products

BlackDiamond® 8800 series switches and Summit® switching products from Extreme Networks® are designed and built to deliver these critical capabilities.

Application evolution happens at the edge of the network. In the enterprise network architecture, the role of edge switches becomes more important to support a variety of applications as well as the proliferation of network-enabled devices. The edge switches are required to support emerging technologies and its fluctuation on day to day basis without increasing the management burden to maintain the application performance.