Excalibur partners with Extreme due to our best of breed standards!  Extreme has the flexible solutions that save customers money while providing more features than customers require.  Be informed and find out what Excalibur IS and Extreme Networks can do for you!  (and why the competition gets nervous when competing with Extreme)

Benefits of Extreme Networks:

ALTERNATIVE – Extreme is clear alternative to high prices and constant upgrading in the Ethernet industry. Only vendor to already show 40Gig in products shipping today. MEANING no future upgrade.

SIMPLE - One OS, A modular operating system that runs on ALL Extreme switches from edge to core.  Many benefits to XOS, one of which is the exact same OS on ALL switches!

RESILIENT - EAPS, Ethernet Automatic Protection Switching /  much faster than industry standard STP, allowing for a loop free, sub 50ms failover to protect your network, the only way to provide VoIP and Video over your Ethernet infrastructure.

FLEXIBLE - Stacking Capability – unlike other manufactures Extreme allows you to mix and match within a stack to create a VIRTUAL Chassis. You can stack 10/100, 1 Gig and 10 Gig switches as one logical switch!

POWERFUL - Extreme Networks is the #1 market share leader in 10 Gigabit networks.

LOWER Total Cost of Ownership - With Limited Lifetime Warranty provided on edge switches with advanced hardware replacement, maintenance or on-going cost are reduced 

ROI -  Prepared for future – Extreme Networks Introduces 40 Gigabit Ethernet Upgrade for Stackable Data Center Switches at Breakthrough Pricing of Under $1,000 per Port. Only vendor to showcase wire-speed 40 Gigabit Ethernet interface modules for its Summit X650 and BlackDiamond(R) 8800 switches at its Interop booth.

MANAGEMENT - With EpiCenter you can manage all switches from one location, including the capability to flexible scripts, macros and ExtremeXOS CLI script management, including WLAN

Universal Port - a powerful tool that enables IT managers to automatically configure switches based on trigger events such as device discovery, user authentication, or time of day. 

Why does Excalibur win customers over with Extreme?

ExtremeXOS Network Operating System

Extreme Networks has changed the industry by creating ExtremeXOS–a highly available and extensible software foundation for converged networks. ExtremeXOS raises the bar for availability, which is critical when offering carrier-grade voice and video services over IP and for supporting mission-critical business applications such as CRM. A more available network can also lower operational costs by drastically reducing emergency maintenance. ExtremeXOS allows you to extend the capabilities of your network via dynamic loading of applications, XML APIs and CLI scripting. It allows you to integrate specialized application appliances such as security and VoIP monitoring devices into your network via XML, as well automatically configuring edge ports for security and VoIP using its Universal Port event based activation of scripts.

EPICenter Network Management Software

EPICenter^® is a scalable, full-featured network management tool that simplifies configuration, troubleshooting and status monitoring of IP-based networks. Offering a comprehensive set of network management applications for the network and its elements, EPICenter delivers the essential requirements of network management while adding valuable and intuitive features that help save time by streamlining common tasks.

·         Allows you to physically connect up to eight individual X250, X450, X480 and X650 switches together as a single logical unit.  Importance here is that the switches are not the same speed switch - ask the competition if they can do this