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SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Enterprise customers seeking the best way to gain short, medium and long-term business value from their network infrastructure can find answers at Extreme Networks, Inc.'s booth at the Networking Decisions Conference in Chicago. A leader in Ethernet/IP network infrastructure solutions, Extreme Networks is showing customers how its advanced technology and architectural simplicity translates into a dramatically reduced total cost of ownership (TCO). Extreme Networks' unremitting commitment to delivering the fundamentals of an infrastructure -- availability, performance, scalability and flexibility, all supported by a comprehensive array of services -- uniquely positions the Company as a leader in offering large enterprises a genuinely lower total cost of ownership for their high-performance networks. "Value is not about the initial price of a switch, it's about what is achievable with the network," said Duncan Potter, vice president of marketing for Extreme Networks, Inc. "Large enterprises deploy networks to basically improve their business, service their customers and gain a competitive edge. If the network cannot scale and provide the necessary performance, it is worthless to an organization. By significantly reducing the customer's total cost of ownership, Extreme Networks offers the value that makes a difference." With Extreme Networks, customers gain a high-performance network foundation based on scalable Ethernet for their emerging applications and services. The value of the Extreme infrastructure is derived from the Company's vision for simplicity delivered through scalable and functional Ethernet switching platforms. This infrastructure delivers more value for customers throughout the product lifecycle, translating to less expense for bit-by-bit upgrades, as well as less time spent learning to operate and maintain switching devices. Extreme Networks reduces the complexity and squandered resources tied in with competing solutions by providing a common software platform, based on its ExtremeWare(R) operating system and custom ASICs that support advanced QoS for bandwidth management and Layer 3 functionality consistently across its switching platforms.