Extreme Networks announces enhanced professional services in the Middle East and Africa region

It has achieved this by building a Dubai based team with expertise drawn from Industry Best Practice and years of internationally garnered experience.

Aziz Alaali, General Manager for the Middle East and Africa region, says:

"Extreme is committed to the success of our customers and the creation of the Professional Services team is testament to regional investment that Extreme is undertaking to make that success a reality."

The Extreme Professional Services portfolio is designed to be complimentary to current partner services offerings and offer an enhanced customer focus, simplifying the job of its customers IT staff in the provision of services to its end users.

Gary Staff, EMEA Professional Services Manager says: "Our day-to-day lives, not only the workplace are becoming more IT focused. The objective of developing this extended capability will be to give our customers local access to value based solutions from Extreme experts. This way be will be able to provide cost effective service delivery capability throughout the solution life-cycle - From Planning and Design through to Operations and Management."

Extreme Professional Services offers a range of Consulting Services including Service Catalogue Creation, heterogeneous network Audits, and also Security Architecture and Posture assessments to assist customers in identifying, mitigating and managing potential risk in their IT environment.

In addition recent acquisitions like Soapstone Networks, will be quickly incorporated into the service portfolio to offer Service Provider customers rapid deployment of the software, which serves as a foundation for provisioning and service assurance for carrier Ethernet networks.

The Soapstone Networks software will be integrated into the Extreme Networks EPICenterÆ Network Management System, providing a service level view, provisioning and management of carrier Ethernet networks and protocols including Provider Bridging (PB), Provider Backbone Bridging (PBB), Provider Backbone Bridging with Traffic Engineering (PBB-TE), Ethernet Access Protection Switching (EAPS) and Virtual Private Line (VPLS).