"Organizations today are thinking about a few key things concerning their data center, including price/performance for their transition to 10 gigabit, energy efficiency and the consistency and ease-of-operation of their total solution," said Jon Oltsik, principal analyst for the Enterprise Strategy Group." With today's announcement, Extreme Networks is providing a compelling solution that gives customers a high performance and cost-effective data center solution."

"With the introduction of the BlackDiamond 8900-series modules, Extreme Networks uniquely addresses data center: performance, lower cost of ownership and flexibility in design," said Paul Hooper, vice president and general manager for the Volume Products Group for Extreme Networks. "The BlackDiamond 8900-series modules meet these requirements by enabling dramatic scaling of the network while keeping costs in check."

Extreme Networks will demonstrate the new BlackDiamond 8900 series modules and its full line of data center The BlackDiamond 8900-series modules will be available this quarter. The management switch module, BlackDiamond 8900-MSM128 has Asia Pacific list price of US$27,495. The BlackDiamond 8900-10G24X-c module has APAC list price of $49,495. The BlackDiamond 8900-G96T-c module has APAC list price of $27,495.