Extreme Networks Wins Networld+Interop Best of Show Award for Groundbreaking Application Switch
SummitPx1 Chosen for Its Pioneering Innovation and Performance
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Oct. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Continuing the networking industry's longest winning streak, Extreme Networks, Inc. (Nasdaq: EXTR - news) has again received the highest recognition for its Ethernet switching technology from Networld+Interop. Extreme Networks was presented with the prestigious Networld+Interop 2001 Best of Show Award for its SummitPx1(TM) Application Switch, named the best new product in the performance enhancement category.
``Winning Best of Show, now five times in five years, signifies how Extreme Networks' customers receive the most important new technologies through products that are consistently recognized as the very best in the industry,'' said Paul De Zan, vice president of corporate marketing for Extreme Networks. ``The SummitPx1 Application Switch is another revolutionary innovation driving toward our goal: providing the most effective applications infrastructure, which enables businesses to get the most from the mission-critical applications they depend on.''
The SummitPx1 is the first network device based on Extreme Network's powerful new Application Switching technology. Application Switching delivers a quantum leap in Layer 4-7 switching performance, and launches Extreme Networks into the burgeoning market for faster, more intelligent content networking solutions.
``From our very first switching product, the Summit1, which pioneered the Layer 3 switching market, to the Alpine, which brought Ethernet technology into Metro networks, to our new Application Switching technology, Extreme Networks has consistently delivered award-winning products that have changed the course of the networking,'' said Gordon Stitt, CEO for Extreme Networks.
The SummitPx1
Enterprise and Internet data centers need to implement money saving Layer 7 intelligence for cookie persistence and user-awareness. Preserving performance requires high Layer 7 new user connection rates. According to test data from Mier Communications, a leading independent testing center, the SummitPx1 delivers more than 120,000 Layer 7 new user connections per second representing more than 10 times the performance of the closest competitor participating in the testing. Many data centers have not implemented cookie persistence or user tracking because it penalizes the performance of their web-based applications. With the Layer 7 performance of the SummitPx1, data center networks can be both intelligent and fast.
Data from the same Mier Communications test shows that the SummitPx1 supports 235,000 new user connections per second for Layer 4 applications, which is two to ten times the performance of current load balancing switches participating in the testing. Results of the Meir testing can be found online: extremenetworks.com .
The SummitPx1 is available now with a suggested U.S. list price of $49,995.
About the Best of Show Awards
By identifying innovative products introduced at Networld+Interop, the Best of Show Awards assist in the quest for Internet-enabled networking solutions. The editors of InternetWeek and Network Computing, two of CMP Media's premier IT publications, started the process by reviewing and evaluating over 200 new product submissions for the 11 categories. Finalists were selected for each category and winners were announced on October 23, 2001.
About Extreme Networks
Extreme Networks, Inc., delivers the most effective applications infrastructure by creating networks that are faster, simpler and more cost-effective. Headquartered in Santa Clara, Calif., Extreme Networks markets its network switching solutions in more than 50 countries. For more information, visit www.extremenetworks.com.
NOTE: Extreme Networks and Summit are registered trademarks of Extreme Networks, Inc. Alpine, and SummitPx1 are trademarks of Extreme Networks, Inc. in the United States and other countries.
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