- Extreme 8720-32C switch with front to back airflow
- Supports 32 x 100/40G with AC power supplies, six fans and a 4-post rack mount kit
- High-performance feature-rich, fixed form factor switch for service provider and data center
- Compact 1U form factor for reduced power and footprint
- Supply chain, boot, and runtime protection with Measured Boot
- Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) for lights-out management (LOM) for remote operations such as reboots, shutdowns, and out of band troubleshooting
- Redundant management port
- Supports Integrated Application Hosting to enable organizations to deploy Extreme-provided or third-party applications and tools directly on the switch
- Non-blocking, wire-speed switching architecture
- Extreme Fabric Automation leverages Integrated Application Hosting and enables Plug-and-Play IP fabrics for infrastructure provisioning and configuration of all tenant services
- Full featured SLX operating system with advanced features supporting switching, IP Fabrics, BGP-EVPN and VXLAN
With the increasing need for high-performance edge compute and distributed cloud-native applications, enterprise data centers and service provider fixed, and mobile edge solutions require dense 40/100 GbE switches for large scale BGP-EVPN IP Fabric spine and leaf architectures. As a part of Extreme's Universal platform, the Extreme 8720 delivers scalable L2 and L3 services and deterministic network performance while simplifying deployment and reducing cost. The Extreme 8720 is a high-performance, feature-rich, and purpose-built 10/25/40/100 GbE network hardware platform built for uncompromising performance in enterprise data centers and for mobile operators delivering critical 5G micro data center and multi-access edge compute (MEC) environments. The Extreme 8720 network hardware platform enables organizations to design open networks that accommodate a variety of applications and east-west traffic patterns. With its high-density scale-out architecture, power efficiency, and airflow options, the 8720 platform delivers a cost-effective solution that optimizes power, cooling, and data center space, wherever your center of data might be.