Smart Data Centers Feature Editorial

Dell’ (News - Alert) Oro Group’s most recent market share update places Extreme Networks at the number 2 revenue position for data center Top-of-Rack switches market.

Extreme Networks’ (News - Alert) service portfolio includes wired and wireless secure LANs, data center infrastructure and Service Provider Ethernet transport solutions and all these are complemented by global, 24x7 service and support.According to the research firm, Extreme Networks’ growth during Q2 was highlighted by the company’ s impressive gains with its fixed 10 Gigabit Ethernet, purpose-built, “Top-of-Rack” switching solutions.

According to this Dell’Oro Group market update, Extreme Networks is behind only Cisco (News - Alert) in the global Ethernet data center market.

And this huge growth can be attributed to the company’s widely admired Summit X650, Summit X450 and Summit X480 switches. Extreme Networks’ global customers include The Limited, a leading national retailer, the Austrian Ministry of the Interior, Inmar, a retail logistics leader, and Profitability.net, a colocation and cloud services provider. Extreme Networks officials said that all these customers continue their adoption of Extreme’s Four Pillar data center strategy, enabling a seamless migration from physical networks, to virtual networks and to cloud-based data center networks.

In the “Top of Rack” switch port shipment category, Extreme Networks increased its port shipments by 194 percent compared to the same quarter one year ago. This, according to the telecommunication and market research firm, demonstrates continued momentum for the company in the dynamic and demanding data center Ethernet market.

According to the industry watchers, 10 GbE can be the ideal way for dealing with surging deployment of very high performance servers and bandwidth demanding applications.

No wonder 10 GbE is becoming the connection of choice beyond the network core, at the edge and for aggregation. Under this market condition, 10 GbE Top-of-Rack switches are predicted to play a crucial role in driving market growth.

“The most significant network upgrade ever witnessed in the data center space has just begun as customers start migrating servers from multiple 1,000 Mbps connections to two 10 Gigabit Ethernet connections,” said Alan Weckel, Director of Ethernet Switch Market Research at Dell’ Oro Group. “10 GbE Top-of-Rack switches will be one of the growth drivers going forward in this market transition.”

Paul Hooper, chief marketing officer for Extreme Networks said the company’ s momentum in the data center segment continues to accelerate as customers drive their purchase decisions towards our innovations, performance and vision.

“The Dell’Oro report confirms the success of our data center vision and 10 Gigabit Ethernet products.”