Aggregation
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® series switches, Summit® X650 and Summit X450a switching products from Extreme Networks are designed and built to deliver these critical capabilities.
- High availability to meet toll-grade voice quality for converged networks
- Comprehensive security to help protect company information and to help ensure availability under attack
- Simplified management to reduce the total cost of ownership
- Non blocking gigabit and 10 Gigabit Ethernet switching with rich Quality of Service to provide the application level performance
- Carrier-grade highly reliable hardware, robust modular operating system and redundant protocols to help ensure five-9s availability
- Same operating system to provide the consistent manageability throughout the network
BlackDiamond 20808
The BlackDiamond 20808 switch allows a single Carrier Ethernet network to deliver residential services, business services and wireless backhaul services. The BlackDiamond 20808 switch allows service providers to get ahead of their customers' ever-growing bandwidth demands, increase revenues with scalable switch resources that maximize service capacity, and drive profitability with low per-port and system costs. The key benefits of the BlackDiamond 20808 switch are:
- Superior Bandwidth Capacity
- Scalable Switch Resources
- Unmatched Price/Performance
BlackDiamond 20808
BlackDiamond 12800R
The metro Ethernet market continues to grow, but increased competition and customer churn have metro service providers demanding solutions that can help increase revenue and lower operational costs. Designed from the ground-up for high service density, BlackDiamond 12800R series switches help enable metro service providers to increase revenue opportunities with more subscribers, and more services per subscriber.
New technology innovations built into BlackDiamond 12800R series switches facilitate scaling and managing larger networks. Services are protected with carrier-class hardware, software, and network protection capabilities. The primary benefits of the switch can be classified into three categories:
- High Service Density
- Carrier-Class Scalability
- Carrier Grade Availability
BlackDiamond 12800R
BlackDiamond 12804C
BlackDiamond 12804C is capable of maintaining this performance under various failure conditions and/or under network attacks. BlackDiamond 12804C, like BlackDiamond 10808, incorporates programmable ASIC technology. This programmability helps ensure that the platform will support emerging protocols without costly hardware upgrades-thus offering great investment protection.
The BlackDiamond 12804C is ideal for core or aggregation applications requiring high-performance, scalability and a high level of resiliency. Even more importantly, BlackDiamond 12804C is designed to help meet tomorrow's needs as well as today's. Extensibility is the key to building intelligent core networks that can adapt and respond to changing requirements over time; this is where BlackDiamond 12804C truly stands out.
BlackDiamond 12804C
BlackDiamond 10808
BlackDiamond 10808 hardware supports a wide array of protocols. In addition, BlackDiamond 10808 incorporates programmable ASIC technology. This programmability helps ensure that the platform will support emerging protocols without costly hardware upgrades—thus offering you investment protection.
Even more importantly, BlackDiamond 10808 is designed to help meet tomorrow’s needs as well as today's. Extensibility is the key to building intelligent core networks that can adapt and respond to changing requirements over time; this is where BlackDiamond 10808 truly stands out.
BlackDiamond 10808
BlackDiamond 8800
BlackDiamond 8800 series switches deliver voice-class availability, high-density Power over Ethernet (PoE), Gigabit Ethernet, and 10 Gigabit Ethernet wherever it’s needed. It serves well as a high-performance Enterprise core. The non-blocking ports interconnect thousands of servers for High Performance Cluster Computing (HPCC). A full range of Layers 2 - 4 features for IPv4 and IPv6 allow the aggregation of high-speed connections, eliminating bottlenecks between edge and core. BlackDiamond 8800 fits well at the edge of the most demanding enterprises switching Voice-over-IP (VoIP), video, wireless and data traffic.
- High-density PoE edge switch for integrate wired, wireless and IP Telephony
- Interconnect switch providing low-latency connections for HPCC
- Single switch network solution for small to medium-sized networks
- Traditional gigabit or 10 Gigabit Ethernet aggregation switch
BlackDiamond 8800
Summit X650
The Summit X650 series switch is a purpose built Top-of-Rack switch designed for emerging 10 Gigabit Ethernet enabled servers, deployed in Enterprise data centers. Summit X650 optimizes the new server deployment while providing an excellent migration path from the existing gigabit Ethernet based servers to the 10 Gigabit Ethernet based high-performance servers, to seamlessly start the transition to the new virtualized environment.
Summit X650 provides remarkable high density for 10 Gigabit Ethernet in a very small 1RU form factor for up to 32-port in one system, 192-port in a stacked system. Summit X650 offers two of the most advanced 10 Gigabit Ethernet technology: 10GBASE-T and SFP+ to accommodate the needs both for copper twisted pair cable and optical fiber based 10 Gigabit Ethernet.
With its versatile design, Summit X650 supports exceptionally high density Layer 2 switching with ultra low latency and highly scalable IPv4 and IPv6 unicast and multicast routing to offer Enterprise aggregation and core backbone deployment for AC powered and DC powered environment.
By combining our Ethernet switch stacking technology, SummitStack with Summit X650, Extreme Networks has created an evolutionary and market changing high-density 10 Gigabit Ethernet stackable solution. Summit X650 offers a flexible stacking option to optimize multiple deployment scenarios: offering backward compatibility with the 40 gigabit SummitStack and ultra high speed SummitStack256 running at 256Gbps. With SummitStack, Summit X650 can be stacked up to 8 units, providing up to 192 ports of 10 Gigabit Ethernet in 8 rack units height. Summit X650 also supports an optional SummitStack512 module running at 512Gbps, which allows clustering two Summit X650s together for non-blocking 48-port 10 Gigabit Ethernet solution.
Summit X650 simplifies network operation by a common modular operating system, ExtremeXOS, among all Extreme Networks Ethernet switches. ExtremeXOS gives you high availability and simplicity with one operating system everywhere in the network.
Your future is assured with Summit X650. Summit X650 is designed to support future high-speed Ethernet technology, 40 Gigabit Ethernet and 100 Gigabit Ethernet by its astonishing Versatile Interface Module architecture built-in the switch.
Summit X650
Summit X450a
Summit® X450a is based on the revolutionary ExtremeXOS™ operating system from Extreme Networks®. ExtremeXOS is a highly resilient, modular operating system that provides continuous uptime, manageability and operational efficiency. Each Summit X450a switch offers the same high-performance, non-blocking hardware technology used on Extreme Networks BlackDiamond® 8800 series, in the Extreme Networks tradition of simplifying network deployments through the use of common hardware and software throughout the network.
A highly flexible and scalable Summit X450a is an ideal aggregation switch for traditional small core enterprise networks and an excellent first level aggregation device for DSLAMs at a local central office before traffic is passed on to Extreme Networks BlackDiamond 12804R core switch at the Point of Presence (POP) where traffic is managed and connected to service networks.
Summit X450a
Alpine 3800
Extreme Networks® award-winning Alpine™ 3800 chassis switches support the scalability, flexibility, security and management features required to build complete enterprise networks, including large campuses, branch offices, data centers and wiring closets. Alpine 3800 series switches enable enterprise networks to adopt new technologies, such as wireless and VoIP, by offering intelligent security and availability features to keep network convergence simple and manageable.
Alpine 3800