Extreme Connect 2023 announcements

Living Tomorrow and Extreme join forces to inspire innovation and reimagine the power of networking

10 May 2023

“Will change happen to you, or be led by you?”, asks Living Tomorrow Innovation Campus. The emerging technologies for smart cities, healthcare, mobility and hospitality, showcased in this experimental lab located just outside of Brussels will soon be powered by Extreme's networking solutions, including the next generation Wi-Fi 6E access points.

Living Tomorrow Innovation Campus has selected Extreme as its network connectivity partner to build, test and validate cutting-edge, technology-driven experiences and products. In collaboration with a wide network of customers, partners and government agencies, Extreme will work with Living Tomorrow to promote and design innovative products that are likely to become widely adopted by the year 2030. The Living Tomorrow Innovation Campus will become the largest technological showcase to date, with a 10,000-square-meter demo center.

Reimagining the power of networking

The advanced technologies across the Innovation Campus, from automated assistants greeting guests at the hotel’s front desk to surgical robots within the healthcare lab, will be powered by Extreme’s wired and wireless networking solutions, including hundreds of AP4000 Wi-Fi 6E access points (APs). Extreme will also showcase innovative networking solutions in the Digital Experience Center, a large space that includes a conference center and 96 hotel rooms outfitted with smart technology. Here, Extreme will demonstrate how autonomous networks will work in the future, and showcase how leveraging digital twin technology will transform customer experiences, business operations, and product development across industries.

The Living Tomorrow Innovation Campus is designed to showcase the possibilities of future technology, from autonomous vehicles and drones to smart hotel rooms that respond directly to guest needs. We selected Extreme because they are a leading innovator of networking technology and can act as an extension of our team, going above and beyond expectations and enabling us to see the full potential of the new technologies we are testing across our campus. Alongside Extreme, we are able to drive fearlessly toward the future without limitations on the technology that we can test and develop, enabling us to work even faster toward a better quality of life for citizens around the world.”

Joachim De Vos, Managing Partner and Co-Chairman of Living Tomorrow and Founder of TomorrowLab

Leveraging history to improve the future

The first Living Tomorrow project, called The House of the Future, opened in 1995. Since then, Living Tomorrow has helped introduce innovations including the mobile phone, solar panels, electric cars and video conferencing. The new Living Tomorrow Innovation Campus will help to progress technologies including drone transportation, remote surgeries and autonomous vehicles.

Living Tomorrow’s IT team will also rely on ExtremeAnalytics and ExtremeCloud IQ, to provide insights into network performance and application usage to optimize connectivity across the campus, improve guest experiences and enhance security and IT productivity. Further, ExtremeCloud IQ will enable the IT team to leverage AI to automate tasks related to daily network maintenance and detect anomalies in network activity. This will help ensure incredible guest experiences, as issues can be easily identified and resolved before users are impacted, as well as help improve network security and IT team efficiency.

When it comes to next-generation products, solutions and experiences, nothing runs without the network. As operational reliance on technology accelerates and operations become more distributed, hyper-personalized experiences are expected, and network complexity will only continue to increase. Extreme delivers the solutions necessary to support all these new innovations while making it easy for the campus IT team to manage an incredibly busy environment, fueling the innovation and new ideas necessary to make seamless futuristic experiences possible for Living Tomorrow’s partners and guests alike.

Markus Nispel, Chief Technology Officer, EMEA, Extreme Networks