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Extreme CEO downplays buyout rumors

Extreme CEO downplays buyout rumors but doesn't deny them. He may be right that when times get tough, enterprises will look to vendors who are not the highest cost (Cisco). That could be good for Extreme.

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Summit 48 black cloud

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I don't know of any Extreme customer that had a large deployment of Summit 48 switches that will ever consider using Extreme equipment again. Those who have lived through the pain of the failures tend to move on to other vendors.

FOUNDRY is the legitime Number #2 VENDOR

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Check current FOUNDRY product announcements which include: 512 10GE port density in a single switch,802.3AT equipment, 320GIG LAG, FESX-XE,802.11n WiFI,.....

On top of the current enterprise switch generation with advanced POE features like 384 Class-3 support with N+1 power....

Correct about Foundry

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Correct about Foundry products, but...

Brocade Announces Definitive Agreement to Acquire Foundry Networks
http://www.foundrynet.com/convergednetworks/

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