A Letter to Extreme Partners on Aerohive Acquisition

By Ed Meyercord,
President and CEO

Hello all,

We’re thrilled to announce that we closed our acquisition of Aerohive! Extreme is now a leader in cloud-managed networking with the highest performance next-gen cloud platform in the industry! We are excited about the new capabilities we will be able to offer to all of our valued customers. There has never been a better time to be partnered with Extreme. We continue to invest in more ways to win together.

As the industry moves rapidly towards cloud-managed networking, we are now well positioned to meet your needs, as well as the needs of your customers. Our plan is to invest beyond the wireless LAN current cloud management capabilities by adding our wired switching portfolio, new software, and applications to our new cloud platform. We remain committed to leading through the channel and will integrate our could management solution set into our Extreme Partner Network. This is consistent with our goal of delivering the highest quality networking needs from the access edge through the cloud data center backed up with 100% insourced technical support.

I want to thank you for your support as we continue to grow and affirm that there has never been a better time to partner with Extreme! We’re eager to work with you to help grow your business and serve our customers and are making significant investments in our digital infrastructure to reduce friction and make it easy to do business with us. Wherever your customers’ networking journeys may lead, we want to be the technology provider you partner with to get them there.

To learn more about where we’re headed, please attend our September 10th webinar entitled Aerohive Networks + Extreme Networks = The Future of Cloud Networking to find out more about the New Extreme and our future product roadmap!

For the latest news on the close of the acquisition, please visit our Aerohive Acquisition Updates Page or refer to our press release Extreme Networks Completes Acquisition of Aerohive Networks.

 

Sincerely,

Ed Meyercord

President & CEO

Extreme Networks

About the Author
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Ed Meyercord
President and CEO

Mr. Meyercord has served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Extreme since April 2015. He joined our Board of Directors as an independent director in October 2009 and served as Chairman from March 2011 through August 2015.

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