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Exceptional performance, reliability and insights with increased availability across your expanding networks

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We deliver effortless cloud networking as the #NewNormal


The only way to keep your workforce, students, or customers moving forward is to keep them connected. This is increasingly challenging as the network becomes more distributed across home offices and temporary spaces.
Extreme Networks' insightful and effortless cloud networking gives you:
Increased availability Data durability Unlimited live and historical data insights ISO27001 certified cloud management
With cloud management, organizations are able to centrally orchestrate and support highly dispersed remote and dynamic campus environments, leveraging data insights to continually optimize and reshape their wired and wireless networks as organizations and governments reshape policies.

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    Enable your agile workforce for anytime, anywhere accessKeep your users connected & empowered to work where they want, when they want
    Better understand your environment through your networkUsers and devices are identified and secured both on and off the network with clear insights to support operational and leadership teams
    Increase safety for your people and your data
    Use automation and cloud-based insights to help protect your people and support operations
    Unlimited data perspective for unlimited insightsTo address current and future business and network challenges, we offer an unlimited data perspective for networking analytics reporting
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The Extreme Networks Offering

Extreme Networks' solutions are deployed in professional sports stadiums around the world and at more than 17,000 schools and 4,500 college campuses. Extreme is the official Wi-Fi solutions provider of the NFL. During Super Bowl LIV, held in February 2020 at the Hard Rock Stadium in Miami, a record 26.42 terabytes of data was transferred within the stadium.

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ExtremeSwitching

ExtremeSwitching provides the nerve centre of the autonomous enterprise by delivering simple, secure & automated networks.
Combine industry-leading edge to core switches with 4th gen cloud management to streamline and simplify every aspect of network ops from deployment to support.

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ExtremeRouting

High performance routing for campus, data center and service provider networks.

Designed for optimal operations, supporting diverse deployment options—such as Internet border, collapsed border routing and data center interconnect.

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ExtremeWireless

High efficiency, high capacity Wi-Fi that utilizes the latest technologies to optimize and protect bandwidth in all environments.

Combine the leading Wi-Fi hardware with next-generation Extreme cloud management to simplify every aspect of IT operations from deployment to support.

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Management & Automation

Streamline wired and wireless network operations and unlock new IT and business insights powered by machine learning.
ExtremeCloud Appliance delivers simplified management, tightly integrated services and all the enterprise features required for an on-premise solution.

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Analytics & Visibility

Network powered application analytics and optimization solution for actionable business insights through granular visibility into your applications.
From traffic optimization to location tracking & track and trace solutions, the Extreme analytics toolset gives you complete control.

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Security & Access Control

Advanced 360° client, device, and wired and wireless network security.
Extreme offers NAC, policy control, IoT connectivity control, compliance management, guest engagement and wireless intrusion prevention solutions to ensure you're always protected.

ExtremeSwitching 

Makes every connection effortless

Fabric-enabled

Secure flexible foundation for your campus, data center, metro or WAN: Ethernet or IP solutions

Dynamic role-based policies

Policies are centrally defined but locally enforced at the switch, according to user, device and app

Application hosting

Onboard applications run alongside the switch OS without impacting performance

Rich telemetry & analytics

Eliminate shadow IT, improve security & enable fast network remediation with full layer 2-7 visibility

Secure link encryption

Hop-by-hop security capability encrypts/ decrypts packets between connected switches or devices

Extended edge switching

Scale out campus access ports in a simple and cost-effective way; simplify deployment & operations


Our network infrastructure forms the backbone of our operations and the lifeblood to our university. But like many education establishments, the pressure and demands on IT are increasing significantly. Thanks to our new scalable and cost-efficient solution, we are not only realising new levels of reliability and improved performance today, but empowering ourselves for success tomorrow. 

Dr. Basem El-Haddadeh: Director of IT Services, Leeds Beckett University


The [Extreme Networks] project has managed to meet all its objectives and has paved the way for the implementation of subsequent infrastructures and the creation of new applications in response to demand by citizens and social healthcare professionals.

Carlos Alonso Sanz: Project Manager and Systems Engineer, Madrid Digital

ExtremeWireless

Increases performance, strengthens security

High Speed & efficiency

Uncompromising performance with the latest Wi-Fi technologies including OFDMA, MU-MIMO, & software-defined dual 5 GHz radios

Visibility & control

Performance & security insights about associated clients captured, assisting administrators optimize & protect network & organization

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Context-based optimization

Contextualized network policies to prioritize, restrict, or limit network performance at individual or group level ensuring maximized capacity

Secure access for all

Secure corporate, guest, BYOD & IoT devices to enterprise levels, authentication options & customisable access policies

Awards and Accreditation


Extreme Networks is a 'Game Changer', according to Sports' Innovation Lab Power Play Index.
"Extreme is the clear leader in providing connected solutions to enhance the digital fan experience. It is the first to deliver Wi-Fi 6 solutions across the NFL, MLS, and University Stadiums, with customers including the NFL's Tennessee Titans, Seattle Seahawks, and Green Bay Packers; BBVA Stadium, home to Major League Soccer's Houston Dynamo and the National Women's Soccer League's Houston Dash; West Texas A&M University's Buffalo Stadium, and Carnegie Stadium and Pavilion and The Arena at Leeds Beckett University."

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GMQ Extreme Leader 2020

Gartner Magic Quadrant 2020Leader | Wired and Wireless LAN Access Infrastructure

NSS labs recommended

Company of the yearProduct of the yearSoftware product of the year

Gartner peer insights award

Gartner Peer InsightsCustomers' Choice Award 2020Wired & Wireless LAN Infrastructure

Extreme Networks Content

ExtremeNetworks White Paper

Learn how Cloud-driven technology can help establish the #NewNormal

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State University of New York (SUNY) Canton upgrades infrastructure

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Evaluating core solutions in the cloud networking age: Cisco | Extreme | HPE

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ExtremeSwitching X695Full technical specificationsand detailed options

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