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End-of-Sale Announcement for Summit 48si

This notification announces the end-of-sale of selected Summit® products for all customers to provide a 6-month notice. These older products can be replaced with newer products which offer more functionality and value.

Click here to download the following pdf for more information and a recommended migration path.

End-of-Sale Announcement for Alpine 3800

This notification announces the end-of-sale of selected Alpine® products for all customers to provide a 6-month notice. These older products can be replaced with newer products which offer more functionality and value.

Click here to download the following pdf for more information and a recommended migration path.

End-of-Sale Announcement for BD 8800 Line Cards

This notification announces the End-of-Sale of certain products within the BlackDiamond® 8800 series products.  These items can be replaced with newer products within the same BlackDiamond 8800 product family.

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Open Books Announcement BlackDiamond 8500-Series Modules 

Extreme Networks® is pleased to announce the introduction of the BlackDiamond® 8500-Series Modules.  This presents a great opportunity for enterprises to deploy flexible, low cost and high performance modular switches to the edge of the network and in the wiring closet.

Key distinguishing features of the new BlackDiamond 8500-series modules are:

  • Rich Feature Set for the Wiring Closet
  • Unparalleled Investment Protection: allows for upgrade to 10G capability without investing in a new chassis
  • Low Total Cost of Ownership: includes the new Limited Lifetime Warranty with express Advanced
  • Hardware Replacement, offered at a low entry price
Click here to download the following pdf for more information.

Summit X650 and XGM2-2bt/2sf Open Books
Announcing Open Books for Summit X650 10 Gigabit Ethernet Stackable Switch as well as the new dual port 10 Gigabit Ethernet modules for Summit X450a, Summit X450e and Summit X350. Both products are based upon the newest 10 Gigabit Ethernet technologies, 10GBASE-T and SFP+. View the Summit X650 Open Books Announcement or attend the Summit X650 Webinar on December 3, 2008

SX and LX SFP 10 Packs Open Books
By purchasing a 10 pack of 1000BASE SX and LX SFPs, customers can pay up to 40% less list price than buying single units. SX SFP allows link length of up to 550m on MMF and LX SFP allows for link length of up to 10km on SMF and 550m on MMF. For additional details, please refer to the ="http://extremenetworks.info/a/hBJJW2VA83X$LB7XUbc$PxSPJNl/ob650optpc" target="_blank">Optics Open Books Announcement.

SFP+ (SR, LR and 10G Copper) Optics Open Books
The 10G SFP+ optical transceivers (10GBASE-SR and 10GBASE-LR) as well as SFP+ passive copper cables will be supported on SFP+ ports for Summit X650-24x, VIM1-10G8X and XGM2-2sf. SFP+ is the "Small Form Factor Pluggable" interface for 10 Gigabit Ethernet specified by the ANSI T11 Group. The SR SFP+ allows for link length of up to 300m on MMF and the LR SFP+ allows for link length of up to 10km on SMF. The 10G copper passive cables will be available in 1m, 3m, 5m, and 10m lengths. It is expected the favorable price of SFP+ optics will continue to drive strong adoption of 10GbE. For more details, please refer to the SFP+ Open Books Announcement.

Contact

Donny Lu

Affinity Product Sales Manager

716-447-3373

dlu@westcon.com

Updated Mar 8, 2010