See more and do more with our enhanced SD-WAN solution!

Everything everywhere all at once

14 February 2023

We did it. Our industry-leading fabric capabilities are now integrated into the ExtremeCloud SD-WAN platform, enabling you to lower fabric deployment time in by more than 90%, boost network security and application performance, and improve visibility and control over your network – from anywhere, everywhere!

As organizations become more distributed, the increasing shift of applications to the cloud exacerbates the need for connectivity that unifies data center, campus, and branch locations. For example, healthcare providers must manage multiple remote clinics. Universities, colleges and schools need to deliver connectivity for new buildings or temporary classrooms. Retailers have to manage store locations around the world. Enterprises need to accommodate remote working capabilities in their workplaces.

The list goes on and on, proportionally to the scale and pace at which our world becomes more distributed, branching off into endless possibilities… but also never-ending IT labor.

To help modern business and institutions navigate through this multiverse and make it easier to efficiently and securely connect all these disparate environments together, we have extended our fabric network capabilities to the edge by implementing them into our ExtremeCloud SD-WAN solution. The result? The ability to:

quickly set up new sites,
simplify and lower the costs of operations when provisioning new services,
improve network security through hyper-segmentation,
identify and solve the root cause of network disruptions,
reduce mean time to resolution,
improve overall application performance,
and more!

Let’s take a closer look at the benefits!

Fabric to the edge reduces operating costs and simplifies network management. Customers can now easily extend network fabrics across new locations and the entire network and manage it all through a single pane of glass. The integration of Extreme’s network fabric with ExtremeCloud SD-WAN allows customers to automate discovery and configuration of fabric-enabled switches and access points, making it easy to extend connectivity to new sites while keeping costs low and improving security, visibility and application performance. Further, administrators can utilize hyper-segmentation to increase network security by preventing lateral attacks, helping avoid a potentially costly security breach.

While you're here - learn more about Extreme Fabric Connect’s security features!

Extreme Fabric Connect: An invisible network

Limiting how much of the network is visible, and hardened that which is, goes a long way to reducing the opportunities presented to cyber-attackers. Let’s see how Extreme Fabric Connect handles that!

Automated workflows for improved IT efficiency. ExtremeCloud SD-WAN’s new streamlined workflows for planning, deployment and management enable IT teams to perform activities in minutes versus hours. These workflows include automated SaaS application discovery, faster initial site configuration and deeper application performance visualization. Now, IT teams can more easily identify the root cause of issues impacting the user experience as well as data-driven resolutions.

Improved application performance. Extreme has created an automated, maintenance-free approach to connecting to major cloud services like AWS and Microsoft Azure without limiting visibility or performance management. Customers can connect to these services using Internet Protocol Security (IPSec) tunnels, without installing or managing SD-WAN appliances or software in the cloud service provider’s environment. This brings connectivity to the edge of the network, simplifies connections to new services, reduces network bottlenecks and provides IT with greater control and visibility at both the application and the network level.

Support for high-bandwidth use cases with 10 Gbps. As 10 Gbps internet becomes more widely available, Extreme’s new IPE2200 hardware appliance is ready to support high-bandwidth data center use cases. This appliance, available as part of an ExtremeCloud SD-WAN subscription, is ideal for customers with large campus environments that need to support a large volume of traffic like extensive use of video collaboration services.

Let’s hear it from the Executives!

Removing complexity by leveraging innovative networking technology is the essence of what we do at STEP CG. With Extreme’s new integrated SD-WAN and network fabric capabilities, our customers will be able to extend a unified fabric beyond the campus to their smaller locations while benefiting from the application performance of SD-WAN. This will allow us to make our customers’ IT environments even more secure, agile and resilient.

Ed Walton, CEO, STEP CG

As organizations grow, the network must be able to easily scale to offer users the same experience no matter where they are. Extreme fabric solutions help organizations of all sizes reduce risk, simplify operations and minimize time needed to set up and secure new sites. With the integration of fabric and ExtremeCloud SD-WAN, we’re helping customers unify complex and disparate networks and enhance network security. We’ve just set the competitive bar higher than ever with SD-WAN, making it simple and cost-effective to deploy across any organization.

Dan DeBacker, Senior Vice President of Products, Extreme Networks

Would you like to learn how to leverage our new SD-WAN capabilities in your organization?

The integration of Extreme Fabric Connect capabilities with the ExtremeCloud SD-WAN platform will be one of the biggest topics of the upcoming Extreme Connect 2023 User Conference held on May 8-11, 2023 in Berlin. See it in action – save your spot today!