Extreme launches Aspen in Middle East

Enterprise organisations, service providers and Extreme Channel Partners have been invited by Extreme Networks to attend three seminars scheduled to be held in Dammam (Saudi Arabia), Dubai (UAE) and Cairo (Egypt) on 13th, 21st and 24th March respectively.

"During the seminars, conducted by highly knowledgeable Extreme technical experts, we will guide our partners and their customers through the key features, benefits and applications of the new switches," said Chris Moore, Regional Manager, Extreme Networks Middle East and North Africa. "The new Aspen 8800 series switching solution leads the market in offering support for robust, full-scale IP telephony deployments."

Extreme's new Aspen 8800 series switching solution enables users to address the critical requirements for voice production deployments including voice quality connectivity, increased uptime, better security and simple management. This is enhanced by a modular, highly-available, operating system, ExtremeWare XOS, and the industry's only LAN resiliency protocol for voice - Extreme Networks' Ethernet Automatic Protection Switching (EAPS) protocol.

"Aspen has been launched at the right time when end users are implementing or planning to implement VoIP systems," pointed out K. Ganesan, Divisional Director, Online Distribution, Extreme's distributor in the region. "Today the end user has to deal with many devices to connect at the access layer like PCs, telephones, wireless devices, PDAs - anything with an IP address. Aspen is a perfect solution for these users, addressing both end of the two-tier architecture. Our channel partners are very excited with this launch. They are already working on several projects using Aspen solutions."

The new Aspen 8800 series switching solution enables the concept of the 10/100/1000 Power over Ethernet (PoE) "Universal Jack." Addressing the power, density and performance compromises of the first generation of PoE switches, the Aspen 8800 series switch reduces the number of switching elements and eliminates the middle-tier of a traditional three-tier network. The design of the Aspen 8800 series switch allows users to more easily add PoE ports with new blades or power modules, instead of having to add entire new switches.

"Since Aspen 8800 series eliminates access layer limitations, users can now finally benefit from the simplicity of a two-tier network," said Moore. "Our Aspen 8800 series switch eliminates such compromises as PoE, density, security and performance that users had to settle for in the past."

The Aspen 8800 series switch offers voice-class availability with its redundant system design, modular operating system (ExtremeWare XOS) and network resilient protocols. The new switch has a high density line rate gigabit and 10 gigabits ports, high-density PoE support, low latency and jitter support and integrated wired and wireless networking access. The comprehensive security feature sets, include user and host integrity, threat detection and response, and a hardened infrastructure.