TMCnet News
Data Holdings Builds on State-of-the-Art Data Center in Milwaukee with Extreme Networks' Ethernet Data Center SolutionsSAN JOSE, Calif., March 2, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Extreme Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: EXTR), a leader in high performance networking, and Data Holdings, LLC, today announced a successful implementation of Ethernet services for Wisconsin's premier Tier III enhanced data center. Located in the city of Milwaukee, Data Holdings is a wholesale and retail colocation services provider offering its customers physical layer infrastructure services. Data Holdings chose Extreme Networks' data center switching products when building its new LEED Gold greenfield data center. Through managed services provider Stack41, additional Extreme Networks switching, software services and support have been provided to create a resilient, responsive and easily managed network. By utilizing Extreme's Summit® X460 series fixed switches and BlackDiamond®X8 modular switches, Data Holdings is able to deploy carrier connectivity for its customers' applications in an efficient and highly scalable manner. "When considering our IT requirements and the needs of our customers, it was important to decide on an Ethernet vendor that could provide scalability, fast recovery and a network supporting both virtual private LAN services (VPLS) and Ethernet automatic protection switching (EAPS)," said Stacy England, Vice President, Data Center Operations, Data Holdings. "Extreme Networks' core and access switching edge solutions matched up very well with our needs and the local Extreme support team has been crucial to the success of the entire process, as their efforts and expertise supports the business." "Extreme Networks is committed to providing best-in-class architecture to meet the demands of application availability and the evolving needs of today's data centers – from server and storage virtualization to network visualization," said Markus Nispel, vice president Solutions Architecture and Innovation for Extreme Networks. "We've designed our solutions to meet business requirements including improvement of application performance, regulatory compliance and IT agility. Our work with Data Holdings is a great example of how this technology can be used to solve real world data center problems." Extreme Networks' Data Center Switching Products
About Data Holdings, LLC: About Stack41: About Extreme Networks Extreme Networks, the Extreme Networks logo, Summit, and BlackDiamond are either trademarks or registered trademarks of Extreme Networks, Inc. in the United States and/or other countries. All other names are the property of their respective owners. Except for the historical information contained herein, the matters set forth in this press release, including without limitation statements as to the features, performance, and benefits of Extreme Networks products, are forward-looking statements within the meaning of the "safe harbor" provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements speak only as of the date. Because such statements deal with future events, they are subject to risks and uncertainties, including network design and actual results of use of the product in different environments. We undertake no obligation to update the forward-looking information in this release. Other important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially are contained in the Company's 10-Qs and 10-Ks that are on file with the Securities and Exchange Commission. http://www.sec.gov. Logo - http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20140602/93419
To view the original version on PR Newswire, visit:http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/data-holdings-builds-on-state-of-the-art-data-center-in-milwaukee-with-extreme-networks-ethernet-data-center-solutions-300043043.html SOURCE Extreme Networks, Inc. |