Avaya and Extreme converged network solutions

Extreme Networks and Avaya have formed a strategic alliance to deliver secure and best of breed, converged network solutions for enterprises to optimise voice, data and video applications on an easily managed robust infrastructure. The alliance will offer jointly developed product and technology solutions as well as Avaya single point of accountability for complete end-to-end networks.

The Extreme Networks and Avaya alliance combines Extreme Networks voice class infrastructure products with Avaya's best in class IP Telephony product solutions.With more and more enterprises embracing the benefits of IP Telephony such as a single network infrastructure, maintenance, staff, virtual call centres and leased line cost savings, Extreme Networks provides excellent Voice-over-IP (VoIP) performance in four key areas:

· High Quality of Service (QoS) enabling low latency, low jitter and zero packet loss
· Eight QoS queues per port versus four used by most competitors
· VoIP traffic can be identified and signaled throughout the network using DiffServ

· Hardware Redundancy - redundancy in management modules, switch fabric and power supplies
· Modular operating system with multiple software protocols for network level resiliency
· Ethernet Automatic Protection Switching (EAPS) - patented feature providing sub 50 ms failover to standby switches.