Extreme Networks^® Awards & Recognition

In 2009, the United Kingdom’s Network Computing named Extreme Networks Summit^® X650 “Top of Rack” data center switch as the “Data Center Product of the Year,” as part of its third annual Network Computing Awards 2009. The Summit^® X650 is recognized for its high bandwidth performance featuring 10 Gigabit Ethernet in a stackable devices, its simplicity-of-management that reduces operational costs while maintaining the capability to extend bandwidth for future requirements through Extreme Networks Versatile Interface Module (VIMs).

Network Computing UK also named Extreme Networks Summit^® X450 converged enterprise LAN switch as the “Infrastructure Product of the Year” as part of its third annual Network Computing Awards 2009. The Summit^® X450 has been recognized for its powerful and consistent software features and versatility of Power over Ethernet (PoE) that provides enterprises with operational simplicity and eased support of connected devices to drive higher productivity.

InfoWorld Magazine honored the BlackDiamond^® 10808 and BlackDiamond 8800 series switches with high recognition for real-world technology innovation, awarding Extreme Networks flagship platform with the "InfoWorld 2007 Technology of the Year" designation. This is the third such award for the BlackDiamond platform, which features the innovative ExtremeXOS™ modular operating system to promote high network availability and enable secure networking. The high-performance BlackDiamond 10808 and 8800 Ethernet switches were singled out for their overall performance, reliability and distinctive attributes, including high availability through software and hardware, fast 10 Gigabit switching performance, and the simplicity and comprehensiveness of network management.

Healthcare IT Magazine named Extreme Networks BlackDiamond 8810 its 2007 Editor's Choice for the solution's impressive scalability and flexibility in providing a variety of IT environments with a full-featured network convergence and overall value, making the modular switch an excellent choice for hospitals and related healthcare facilities. In awarding the product its Editor's Choice, Healthcare IT Magazine highlighted the BlackDiamond 8810 switch's overall switching performance, its support of various combinations of 10 gigabit and Gigabit Ethernet ports and its bandwidth control with Quality of Service for Voice-over-IP (VoIP) traffic, which is commonly adopted by healthcare organizations.

Communications World Magazine named Extreme Networks BlackDiamond 8810 switching solution as Editor's Choice for 2007. The versatile 10 Gigabit Ethernet switch was recognized for its integrated security features, an impressive set of Ethernet ports, ease-of-operation and a competitive price, making BlackDiamond 8810 an excellent choice for converged enterprise networks. In awarding the product, the team of editors noted the BlackDiamond 8810's reliability and ability to simplify the enterprise network through its various configuration possibilities.

Network Magazine honored the BlackDiamond 10808 switch and the ExtremeWare XOS operating system by recognizing it with the 2005 Innovation Award for its unique approach to opening the core switch for collaboration to promote integration with third-party solutions. The solution was named the "Most Visionary" for its ability to increase intelligence and device collaboration for emerging areas such as security and IP Telephony.

Frost & Sullivan named Extreme Networks the winner of its Product Line Strategy Award for the Enterprise Switch Market. Extreme Networks provides network infrastructure products for large enterprises and organizations. Its major customers deploy sophisticated mission-critical applications that require powerful, high-speed and highly efficient data networks to provide access to these core systems and applications. Extreme Networks supplies a wide variety of solutions that allow their customers to meet these complex requirements.

TechWorld Magazine of the United Kingdom named the BlackDiamond 8800 switch the Network Award winner as 2005 Switch Product of the Year. The networking solution was recognized by the judging panel for its innovative design and features that allow for a resilient and highly available network supporting both data and voice applications. The Techworld Network Awards recognize the very best of the network industry and reward the leading individuals, teams and companies for their innovative and effective application of cutting-edge technologies.

Network Computing Magazine Germany, selected the BlackDiamond 10808 switch ahead of Cisco's next-generation 10 gigabit carrier-grade router. The review, where testing took place in California, resulted in the editors calling the BlackDiamond 10808 switch "The Network Diamond," for its performance, failover capabilities and its ability to deal with converged traffic such as Voice over IP (VoIP) with little or zero jitter and latency.

November 22. 2002 - Extreme Networks' vision is enabling customers around the world to leverage their network infrastructure to meet their business goals. Extreme Networks is positioned (see press release) as a Visionary by leading market research firm Gartner, Inc. in the latest Global LAN Campus Magic Quadrant.

October 23, 2001 - Extreme Networks has won the prestigious Best of Show award from Networld+Interop for the fifth year in a row. That's a Best of Show every year since our inception. The Summit^®Px1 Application Switch was named the best new product in the performance enhancement category in light of its ability to process 1,000,000 URL pattern rules at gigabit wire speed plus many other proven network performance improvement capabilities.

May 8, 2001 - Beating out the Cisco Catalyst 2948G-L3 Layer 3 Ethernet switch and the Intel NetStructure 480T routing switch, Extreme Networks' Summit7i™ Gigabit Ethernet switch has been named a winner by Network Computing magazine's 2001 Well-Connected Award in the category of Network and Systems Infrastructure - Fixed Configuration LAN Switch. The award marks the second consecutive year that Extreme has received this honor.

May 7, 2001 - Extreme Networks' BlackDiamond 6800 core chassis switch wins InternetWeek's Best-of-Breed challenge. "You couldn't help but notice that Extreme's numbers were consistently at or near the top of the heap," editors noted. They also gave kudos to Extreme for its EPICenter management interface, as well as Extreme's common code base and architecture across multiple layers.

October 27, 2000 - For the third consecutive season, the industry's leading value-added resellers and solution providers selected Extreme Networks as the recipient of the esteemed "Best of VARVision^® Award" in the network hardware category at VARVision Fall 2000. This prestigious award is one of the industry's most recognized honors, citing excellence not only in product technology but also in reseller channel programs.

September 10, 2000 - Extreme's Summit48 fixed-configuration switch sets the standard by which all others are judged, this time by winning the Network Computing Germany Real-World Labs test for quality of service, latency and jitter. Summit48 beat the Cabletron SmartSwitch Router 2000, the Hewlett-Packard ProCurve 2424M and the Lucent P550 Cajun Integrated Router.

May 24, 2000 - After reviewing and evaluating the latest products, technologies and channel strategies, top resellers at the semi-annual VARVision event presented Extreme Networks with the prestigious Best of VARVision Award in the network hardware category. The Best of VARVision Award is significant because it is voted on by the channel's leading solution and service providers.

May 11, 2000 - For an unprecedented fourth year in a row, Extreme Networks was awarded the prestigious "Best of Show" in the Enterprise Network Infrastructure category at Networld + Interop 2000. Extreme's new Alpine 3808 core switch took home the honors, with editors noting "The Alpine brings new features such as ingress port rate limiting and transparent Metropolitan LAN bridging. The Alpine offers high port density 10/100 and gigabit interfaces, and like all Extreme products, wire speed switching on every port."

May 9, 2000 - For the second year in a row, Extreme Networks' Summit48™ Enterprise Desktop Switch was chosen as the winner of Network Computing magazine's prestigious Well-Connected Award in the infrastructure category. The Summit48 beat out the Cisco Catalyst 3500 Series XL and Foundry Networks FastIron II in the "Best Fixed-Configuration LAN Switch" category.

April 17, 2000 - Network Magazine announces that Extreme Networks' BlackDiamond 6800 chassis switch is the winner of the 2000 Product of the Year award. In addition to its fast backplane and wire-speed Layer 2 and 3 performance, editors cite BlackDiamond's extensive management capabilities and quality of service with bandwidth management and traffic prioritization.

February 2000 - The BlackDiamond 6800 chassis switch wins the high-density core switching test conducted by the French publication 01 Reseaux. In tests for Layer 3 switching performance, quality of service and VLAN aggregation, BlackDiamond competed against the 3Com CoreBuilder 9000, Cabletron SmartSwitch 8600 and HP ProCurve 9304M

October 1999 - Extreme Networks wins the "Best Product: Network Hardware" award at VARVision, an industry event sponsored by the Gartner Group. The "Best of VARVision Awards" are voted on by resellers at the event to recognize vendors whose products and programs lead the industry. Criteria for the award is based upon resellers' views of a vendor's credibility, innovation, channel friendliness and product capabilities.

September 14, 1999 - The Summit7i Internet Data Center Switch is named Best of Show Grand Winner at NetWorld + Interop 99 in Atlanta. Data Communications and Internetweek editors chose the Summit7i for integrating powerful chassis-like features into a 7-inch high stackable switch. Extreme also won in 1997 and 1998, making it the only firm to receive three Best of Show awards in a row.

June 1999 - The Summit48 wins the VARBusiness review of Layer 3 switches. Editor's note: "With everything that is installed, the $7,995 purchase price is the best price-per-port in the review by a wide margin. (We don't know how the company can get away with an offer like that, but why not take advantage of it?)" The benefits of the Summit48 are summarized as "low price per port, good performance and good VAR program."

May 1999 - Summit4 wins the Tester's Choice award from Data Communications magazine. Editors praised the Summit4's high throughput and low latency, and wrote: "This gigabit Ethernet workgroup switch posted impressive numbers in all evaluations, including the lowest overall latency in our burst tests."

May 1999 - Summit48 receives two prestigious Well-Connected awards from Network Computing. The Summit48 was selected from more than 150 products to receive the prestigious title as "the best hardware product" of the year. Extreme also won in the category of "Best Layer 3 Switch." Editors describe the Summit48 as an excellent investment and write: "With the Summit48, Extreme has brought to market the first high-functionality 10/100 switch for the edge of the network. While incumbent infrastructure vendors were charging hundreds of dollars per port for less functionality, Extreme broke the mold, bringing the per-port price down to the point at which private 100-Mbps networking is a cost-effective alternative."

April 1999 - BlackDiamond wins the CM Corporate Choice award from CM Corporate, the leading IT magazine in the Belgium/Dutch market. Outperforming the Packet Engines PowerRail 5200, editors described BlackDiamond as having the best scalability and management options. BlackDiamond was praised for having full Layer 3 capabilities as a standard feature, and not as an expensive option.

January 1, 1999 - For the second year in a row, Extreme Networks wins the Data Communications magazine Hot Product Award. Presented in 1999 for the Summit48 Enterprise Desktop Switch, editors note that Extreme sold almost 80,000 Summit48 switch ports within six months of first shipping the product. That makes it the No. 1 supplier of Layer 3 switch ports, with a market share of 24.1 percent..."

November 1998 - French publication 01 Reseaux presents Extreme Networks with a performance award for the Summit2 LAN switch. Outperforming Gigabit Ethernet switches from Hewlett-Packard, Cabletron, Intel and NBase, editors noted that Summit2 performed at wire-speed on all ports with zero packet loss.

October 19, 1998 - The Summit48 Enterprise Desktop Switch wins with the "Referenz" award from Network Computing Germany as "Best value for the money." The article reports that the Summit48 passed all benchmark tests at wire-speed: "We tested the Layer 3-enabled version of the Summit48. In all of our benchmarks, Layer 2 and Layer 3 alike, the Summit48 passed all traffic at wire speed. Even the rigorous X-Stream test showed no packet loss against the Summit48."

October 1998 - Extreme Networks wins a second award from the French publication 01 Reseaux for the Summit48 Enterprise Desktop Switch. Editors described the Summit48 as an excellent solution for both workgroups and large networks. Competitors in this Fast Ethernet switch test included 3Com, Foundry and Intel.

October 1998 - Black Diamond chassis switch wins the Business Communications Review "BCR Best in Test" award. BlackDiamond beat out the competition for sustaining wire-speed performance in small and large packet tests, and for zero packet loss in back-to-back performance tests.

September 1, 1998 - The Summit48 Enterprise Desktop Switch wins Network Computing magazine's Editors Choice award, Best Value award and Flying Colors award. "With prices, performance and features like these, it's tough to beat this knockout switch," wrote Technology Editor Joel Conover.

September 1998 - Hailed as having "The best Layer 3 Gigabit Ethernet switches," Extreme Networks is ranked among the Top 50 privately held technology firms by Red Herring magazine. Extreme is "a textbook example of how to take a startup from the seeds of an idea to a growing line of complementary products in a very crowded market."

August 1998 - In Gigabit Ethernet tests, Business Communications Review names the Summit48 Enterprise Desktop Switch the winner in every category. Editors cite sources who agree that "Extreme Networks has captured an early lead in this marketplace, and now holds from half to two-thirds of the Gigabit Ethernet installed base.".

July 6, 1998 - Extreme Networks receives the Best of LAN Times award for the Summit1 LAN switch. With eight full-duplex, non-blocking Gigabit Ethernet ports, LAN Times editors proclaim "it is every bit as impressive as its forerunners, and it comes at an even more impressive price."

June 8, 1998 - The Summit48 Enterprise Desktop Switch is named the Best of LAN Times for its "amazing" price, as well as "fantastic" port density and management. "You simply cannot go wrong with this switch if your company is leaning toward a Gigabit Ethernet infrastructure," wrote LAN Times editors.

May 15, 1998 - Network Computing magazine gives the Summit48 Enterprise Desktop Switch its "Editor-Refuses-to-Give-it-Back" award after extensive lab tests. Editors called Summit48 "nothing short of phenomenal" and predicted "this high-capacity, high-performance box will be challenging the likes of 3Com Corp. and Cisco Systems."

May 5, 1998 - The Summit48 Enterprise Desktop Switch wins the Best of Show award at NetWorld + Interop 98 in Las Vegas. Data Communications and LAN Times editors selected Summit48 for its superb features, performance and price. Extreme also won in 1997, making it the only firm to date to receive back-to-back Best of Show awards.

May 4, 1998 - The Summit4 Integrated Server Switch receives InternetWeek magazine's Best of Breed award after a competitive performance test. The testing staff chose Summit4 because of its "very high bandwidth, hot performance, solid manageability" - and the "cool purple color."

February 1, 1998 - Extreme Networks' Summit1 and Summit2 switches win the Data Communications magazine Testers Choice Award. Touted by editors as "the fastest devices we've ever tested," Summit1 and Summit2 "smashed several Data Comm lab test performance records."

March 1998 - Summit2 wins the Layer 3 IP routing switch test in the French publication 01 Reseaux. Summit2 beat out the competition, which included 3Com, Nortel Networks, Hewlett-Packard, Lannet and RND. Summit2 was described by editors as an exceptional choice, surpassing both backbone routers and ATM switches.

January 26, 1998 - Extreme Networks' Summit1 is the only Gigabit Ethernet backbone switch to win the NetworkWorld Blue Ribbon Award. Summit1 wows NetworkWorld editors, who call it "Extreme-ly Impressive" and "the pinnacle of performance."

January 1, 1998 - Data Communications magazine gives the prestigious 1998 Hot Products Award to Extreme Networks for Summit1, Summit2 and Summit Virtual Chassis. Editors cite their "scalable IP routing platform that lets network managers build a chassis-like switch from stackable components."

December 1997 - The Mier Communications product test center bestows Extreme Networks with its distinguished "NetWORKS as Advertised" award after the Summit1 LAN switch blows away Foundry, Prominet and Bay in competitive performance tests.

October 21, 1997 - Editors at Data Communications magazine rank Extreme Networks among the Top 25 Hot Startups. Extreme Networks was recognized for being one of the first companies to offer wire-speed Layer 3 switching.

May 12, 1997 - Extreme Networks' Summit1 LAN switch is named Best of the Best Grand Winner and Best of Show winner at NetWorld + Interop 97 in Las Vegas. Sponsored by Data Communications and LAN Times magazines, editors chose Summit1 for combining Gigabit performance, Wire-Speed IP Routing and quality of service.