Extreme intros virtualized infrastructure for datacenters

New Delhi: The adoption of virtualization and outsourcing of infrastructure to managed hosting and cloud providers is driving demand for high performance and increased scale in the datacenter network. Extreme Networks has come up with datacenter products to enable the migration to virtualized datacenters and new infrastructure solutions, that features scalability, performance and simplicity.

The physical network-providing essential interconnect and backbone within and between datacenters globally-is the foundation for the new virtualized architecture and topologies. It is therefore essential that the network technology and systems be highly scalable, deliver powerful performance, capacity and capabilities to support large datacenter implementations. Whether these deployments are based upon Layer 2 or Layer 3 designs, the network must support a rapidly expanding number of virtual machines and a very large number of users within a limited power and physical footprint.

“As managed hosting and cloud environments continue to grow rapidly, both Layer 2 and Layer 3 scalability becomes a major issue in the network,” said Jon Oltsik, Principal Network Analyst-Enterprise Strategy Group, Extreme Networks. The company also introduced new core and edge datacenter switching solutions that boost the physical network to deliver the scale and flexibility for a broad range of deployments. The BlackDiamond 8900-xl modules and Summit X480 stackable switches offer datacenter solutions that allow for a variety of network architectures and topologies to be deployed by managed hosting companies and enterprises.