Extreme Networks has created a new line of Open Fabric data center switches and chassis specifically for cloud applications. The company has designed the new top of server rack switches to provide high performance, low latency and energy efficiency. The Open Fabric products leverage the ExtremeX operating system to provide wire-speed switching of virtual machines.

Among the new products unveiled are a 20Tb Black Diamond X8 chassis and the Summit X60 series top-of-rack switches. The cloud and data center transition involves the migration of virtualized servers from 1GbE to 10GbE, and this requires much denser and highly efficient network architectures. The new products from Extreme Networks offer a solution that elevates performance dynamics to a new level while addressing what will soon become a common need among cloud application providers.