© 2007 Extreme Networks, Inc. All rights reserved.Extreme Networks Confidential and Proprietary. The Weakest Link? A panel discussion on campus networks Contribution Extreme Networks Jan Hof

© 2007 Extreme Networks, Inc. All rights reserved.Extreme Networks Confidential and Proprietary. Page 2 The Challenge Whereas: The variety of applications and services is continuously growing: traditional data applications, grid-applications, IP-Telephony, Video Conferencing, etc. Increasing number and variety of devices being connected to the network The user is mobile, requiring to work in an uniform manner anywhere in the network End-to-End Service Quality ESRF

© 2007 Extreme Networks, Inc. All rights reserved.Extreme Networks Confidential and Proprietary. Page 3 Five Tough Challenges of Campus Networks 1. Availability: Redundant Hardware Resilient Networks Modular Operating Systems from Edge-to-Core 2. Performance Independent from network usage and enabled functions 3. Interconnectivity: Ethernet NNI: to guarantee QoS when interconnecting to other networks 4. Manageability 5. Security

© 2007 Extreme Networks, Inc. All rights reserved.Extreme Networks Confidential and Proprietary. Page 4 Manageability The Universal Port  “USB” for networks 1. Administrator configures VoIP policies. Policy includes VoIP VLAN, Dot1p priority 2. Administrator pushes policy to switch 3. After 802.1x auth, phone sends LLDP message with model, PoE needs, serial number, Switch configures VLAN, Dot1p priority, ACLs and PoE on the port 5. Switch pushes VLAN, Call-Server, E911 location,QoS, etc to the phone

© 2007 Extreme Networks, Inc. All rights reserved.Extreme Networks Confidential and Proprietary. Page 5 Security Coverage and Performance Virtualized Security Resources to keep your Campus Network secure Specialized Security Capabilities Open Engaged Network

© 2007 Extreme Networks, Inc. All rights reserved.Extreme Networks Confidential and Proprietary. Page 6 Open Campus Network To couple the Network to Application and Services Delivering Insight and Control Campus Network Services Inter-Connectivity End-to-End Service Quality Management Security XML based API’s Ethernet NNI Appropriate Toolkit:  ACL’s  SFlow – CLEAR-Flow support  Scripting  etc. Modular OS

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