Extreme Networks Corporate Presentation

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Extreme NetworksCorporate Presentation
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The Extreme Alternative
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Extreme Networks in Brief

• Founded 1996

• Major market Layer 3 switching
• Market Share 20 Layer 3 ports worldwide
• Extreme The clear alternative in Layer 3
  Ethernet
• Ports sold worldwide 8 million
• Global reach 1,000 employees/25 countries
• RD investment 14 annual revenue

DellOro Group
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Some of Our Fortune 500 Customers
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Our Vision Ethernet and IP Everywhere

• Data, voice and video devices are all linked via
  secure, high-speed wired and wireless Ethernet
  connections.

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Our mission

• How does Extreme Networks define best?
• Increased performance
• Simplified operations and architecture
• Decreased total cost of ownership (TCO)

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Infrastructure challenges
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Business Infrastructure A Moving Target
Todays Enterprise The New Enterprise
Store and forward Real time
Data-centric apps Multimedia apps
Static Interactive
99.8 uptime (17.5 hr./yr. outage) 99.999 uptime (5 min./yr. Outage)
Wired links Wired and wireless links
1000s of connections 100,000s of connections (and growing)
PCs and laptops Hybrid (PCs wired and wireless laptops PDAs cellular phones)
Station-centric User-centric
Manage elements Manage communications
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Extreme Innovation
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Stepping into the Future of Ethernet and IP
Business Optimized InfrastructureThe next
logical stepfor the enterprise andthe metro area
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The Application Matrix

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The Business Optimized Switch
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Seamless Scalability From Core to Edge
From a single floor
To an entire building
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Seamless Scalability From Core to Edge
Across the metro area
To campus LANs
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Business Optimized Infrastructure

New Demands High Bandwidth Density
New DemandsScalability, New protocols IPv6,
MPLS, New technology 10GE/40GE
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Extremes TCA (Total Cost Advantage)
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Extremes TCA (Total Cost Advantage)
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Extremes TCA (Total Cost Advantage)
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Best-of-Breed Partners
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The Channel Connection
ExtremeNetworks
ExtremeDistributionPartner(EDP)
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Global From the Word Go
1,000 employees 50 locations 25
Countries
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A Tradition of (Over) Achievement

• 1997
• NI Best of ShowSummit1 LAN Switch
• 1998
• NI Best of ShowSummit48i
• 1999
• NI Best of ShowInternet Data Center Switch
• 2000
• Network Magazine Product of the YearBlackDiamond
  6800
• NI Best of Show Alpine 3800
• InternetWeek Best of Breed Summit48i
• San Jose and Silicon Valley Business
  JournalSilicon Valleys fastest-growing public
  company

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A Tradition of (Over) Achievement

• 2001
• NI Best of ShowSummitPx1
• Network Computing Well-Connected awardSummit7iTM
  
• Ernst Young Entrepreneur of the YearCEO Gordon
  Stitt
• InternetWeek Best of BreedBlackDiamond 6800
• Communication News Editors ChoiceSummitPx1
• 2002
• Deloitte Touche Technology Fast 500 company in
  North America
• 2003
• Network Computing Editors ChoiceBlackDiamond
  6808
• Gartner Research Visionary vendor
• Technology Communications, Northern California

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Business Optimized Benefits

• Maximize performance of business-critical apps
• 24x7 operation
• Increase productivity
• Drastically reduce total cost of ownership
• Lower capital investments,
• Lower operational expenses
• Clear migration path to future
• Massively scalable
• Standards-based
• Support new apps services

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Summary

• Three transformations
• Massive proliferation of connections
• New and more demanding applications
• Changing role of the network in business
• Extremes Business Optimized Infrastructure
• Unified access architecture
• Enhanced distribution/aggregation architecture
• New and innovative core architecture

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Thank You
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