Report: Extreme Networks Grows to Rank Third in Carrier Ethernet Market

Though the recession is looming large, telecom equipments vendor Extreme Networks has kept on snapping up deals and expanding market share worldwide, says analyst firm Heavy Reading.

 

According to this Analyst, California-based Extreme Networks (News - Alert) has now risen to the third position, behind Cisco and Alcatel-Lucent, in the global carrier Ethernet market.

 

"The carrier Ethernet market is driven by a steady transformation, replacing expensive legacy technologies with Ethernet due to its flexibility, performance and price. The recent growth of Extreme Networks market share reflects the success of their increased focus on the needs of the carrier market," said Stan Hubbard, industry analyst for Heavy Reading.

 

The current economic climate has forced many technology companies to lay off thousands of employees and cut down expenditure considerably. But the effects of recession are nowhere to be seen in Extreme Networks.

 

 "Our carrier Ethernet business is really picking up steam," said Peter Lunk, senior director of service provider marketing for Extreme Networks, whose converged Ethernet networks support data, voice and video for enterprises and service providers.

 

 Extreme Networks, whose portfolio of products include metro core and edge, claims that its solutions help service providers lower their operational cost and improve profitability with scalable Ethernet transport networks.

 

The vendor, which is betting heavily on its flagship product Carrier Ethernet Switching Routing (CESR), competes with Cisco and French networking giant Alcatel Lucent to garner larger share of the carrier Ethernet market.

 

The Company has recently unveiled a new product called BlackDiamond to attract more customers to its offerings.

 

The BlackDiamond switch, according to the company, makes ownership of networks far more inexpensive by minimizing operational expenditures. The switch bolsters the metro Ethernet transport network and thus enables the operator to make profit by carrying more services at a lowest possible cost.