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Friday, February 9, 2007
Shrikanth G
Extreme Networks is a leading company in the open converged networks space. Open converged networks will facilitate customers to implement IP Telephony, voice grade wireless, high performance computing and other network intensive applications. Extreme Networks CIO and VP (Marketing) Paul Hooper spoke to VOICE&DATA about the company's game plan in the networking space and its expansion plans out of India. Excerpts:
Can you tell us about Extreme Networks' key focus areas in the networking space?
Extreme Networks delivers enabling organizations, both enterprises and service providers, to address complex business challenges. Our products deliver secure converged voice, video and data with advanced switching infrastructure, sophisticated management and monitoring applications, and advanced network protocols that are complemented with an extensive professional services portfolio.
For telecom service providers, we deliver cost-effective carrier Ethernet infrastructure that incorporates quality of service and subscriber scalability allowing carriers to build metro networks that profitably deliver triple play services for residential and business subscribers with one network.
What are the key networking challenges enterprises face today, and what are the solutions that you are offering?
Enterprises are facing three major networking challenges-one, enabling the to allow tighter integration and awareness of applications that travel on the networks; two, an ever increasing set of security threats that directly impact stability, reliability and overall enterprise services; and three, the need to simplify the complexity of environment management and compliance.
Extreme delivers product and services that enable enterprises to have far greater insight and control of the activities and actions of the networking infrastructure. Specifically, we have delivered an open, extensible operating system that supports standards-based XML management communications; we have delivered VSR (virtual security resource) technologies that provide for virtual in-line security without compromising on reliability or performance and a powerful enterprise-class management platform that allows single-station management of all Extreme solutions.
Can you provide more details about insight and control-and their significance?
True network intelligence requires two critical components-'insight' into the activities and demands upon the network in conjunction with the ability to 'control' response or reaction to events or threats. Specifically, the native insight feature on our edge systems is able to detect 'new connection' events and then initiate control actions that automatically undertake end-point client-less scans for virus or configuration anomalies before establishing appropriate connectivity.
Furthermore, we can uniquely support companies in evolving from the current practice of converging networks to a new era. We call this the "embedded stage" – the basis of intelligent communications.
How important is India to Extreme's overall business?
India is a strategic and important region for Extreme. We continue to invest in India as a new market for Extreme to expand its world wide sales presence, and also to deliver continued cost-effective growth of both our engineering and IT organizations. The engineering function within India is focused on the development, testing and sustaining-engineering of our cross-platform operating system, ExtremeXOS, and also our enterprise management system-EpiCenter. Our IT function in India provides development and support for the core enterprise applications deployed within Extreme.
Shrikanth G
vadmail@cybermedia.co.in
Source: Voice&Data
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