24 Facts About Extreme Networks

Extreme Networks is an American networking company based in San Jose, California.

Extreme Networks designs, develops, and manufactures wired and wireless network infrastructure equipment and develops the software for network management, policy, analytics, security and access controls.

Extreme Networks was established by co-founders Gordon Stitt, Herb Schneider, and Stephen Haddock in 1996 in California, USA, with its first offices located in Cupertino, which later moved to Santa Clara, and later to San Jose.

In November 2014, Extreme Networks was named the first Official Wi-Fi solutions provider of the NFL.

In November 2021, Extreme Networks was named a Leader in the 2021 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Wired and Wireless LAN Access Infrastructure for the fourth consecutive year by Gartner analysts.

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Extreme Networks acquired Optranet in February 2001 and Webstacks in March 2001.

On September 12,2013, Extreme Networks announced it would acquire Enterasys Networks for about $180 million cash.

On October 31,2016, Extreme Networks announced that it completed the acquisition of Zebra Technologies' wireless LAN business for about $55 million.

On March 7,2017, Extreme Networks announced its intention to acquire Avaya's networking business in a transaction valued at $100 million.

The acquisition strengthens Extreme Networks's switching portfolio, including a new family of high-performance modular switches, software tools, and IoT technology.

Extreme Networks has publicly stated that it expects to "generate over $200 million in additional annualized revenue" from the acquired networking assets from Avaya.

On March 29,2017, Extreme Networks announced its intention to acquire Brocade's SRA business from Broadcom for an undisclosed sum.

The acquisition officially closed on October 30,2017, and with it, Extreme Networks acquires customer relationships, personnel, and technology assets from Brocade including the SLX, VDX, MLX, CES, CER, Workflow Composer, Automation Suites, and certain other Data Center related products.

Extreme Networks has publicly stated that it anticipates "the transaction will generate over $230 million in additional annualized revenue from the acquired assets".

On June 26,2019, Extreme Networks announced its intention to acquire Aerohive Networks for $272 million.

Extreme Networks announced its first 10 Gigabit Ethernet product in 2002, available with its modular BlackDiamond 6800 Ethernet Switch.

In 2014, Extreme Networks introduced network-powered application analytics, ExtremeAnalytics, enabling greater business performance.

In February 2019, Extreme Networks rolled out Extreme Defender for IoT, a simple security solution to help organizations secure unsecured IoT devices and network endpoints.

In October 2019, Extreme Networks announced ExtremeCloud IQ, a cloud-based enterprise network management application, to its portfolio as a result of the Aerohive Networks acquisition.

In late October 2019, Extreme Networks selected Broadcom's networking chipsets and programmable silicon to power all new Extreme hardware products from the edge to the data center.

In September 2020, Extreme Networks announced universal platforms for enterprise-class switching and wireless infrastructure.

End-users of universal platforms can use the same hardware to run multiple Extreme Networks operating systems, providing flexibility and choice while optimizing total cost of ownership.

In October 2020, Extreme Networks became the first networking vendor to offer Bluetooth and BLE intrusion prevention and Wi-Fi security within a single wireless intrusion prevention system – Extreme AirDefense.

In July 2021, Extreme Networks became the first vendor in the industry to ship an enterprise-grade Wi-Fi 6E solution.