
The Summit 300
series switches
enable high quality
VoWLAN with
leading handsets
such as SpectraLink.
For PoE, the switch generates up to 15.4
watts of PoE for devices such as VoIP
phones, surveillance cameras, badge
readers, Extreme Networks Altitude APs
and “fat” APs sold by other vendors. When
used with Altitude APs, Summit 300 series
switches provide wireless performance as
each AP simultaneously broadcasts both
802.11a and 802.11b/g. Extreme Networks
has also implemented the SpectraLink
Voice Protocol, a QoS standard used by
the leading WLAN handsets today for
recognizing and prioritizing voice packets.
When enabled in tandem with the Inter-
Access Point Protocol which allows Layer
2 roaming between APs, Voice over
Wireless LAN (VoWLAN) users can
productively communicate with
customers,
patients,
emergency
personnel and
employees
anytime within
a facility.
Compared to other vendors’ point
solutions, Summit 300 series switches
offer a low Total Cost of Ownership
because they are fully integrated into
Extreme Networks family of edge,
aggregation, and core end-to-end solu-
tions. ExtremeWare Layer 2 and
Layer 3 features implemented in the
Summit 300 series switches are shared
with all other Extreme Networks platforms
in the Summit product line as well as with
Alpine
®
and BlackDiamond
®
switches.
From a PoE/wireless perspective,
Summit 300 series switches are comple-
mentary to the BlackDiamond 8800 series
PoE blade, and the Alpine 3800 PoE blade.
Each of these switches supports UAA,
providing a seamless infrastructure for
voice and data support on both wired and
wireless networks. EPICenter manage-
ment platform makes it easy to develop
centralized configuration and management
policies throughout the network. The
Summit 300 series switches also uses the
same Command Line Interface (CLI) and
the same management commands as other
Extreme switches so training time and
expense are reduced as operational
expertise can be shared over an entire
network solution.
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Benefits
Summit 300 Series Benefits
High-Performance
Non-blocking wire-speed architecture
helps ensure performance for demand-
ing wired and wireless applications.
Extreme Networks Altitude APs support
802.11 a, b, and g, today’s fastest
wireless LAN (WLAN) standards.
Extraordinary Availability
Redundant copper and fiber gigabit
uplinks, dual-homed configurations,
and sub-second EAPS failover provide
mission-critical resiliency. The switch
continuously monitors “heartbeats”
generated by the Altitude APs, helping
to ensure more continuous wireless
user operation.
Industry-leading Security
UAA from Extreme Networks provides a
single wired/wireless authentication
infrastructure for consistent, policy-
based security from the edge to the core.
Wireless security includes hardware-
accelerated AES and RC4 encryption.
Extreme Networks also offers rogue AP
detection for defending the wireless
perimeter of a network.
Scalability
The Summit 300 series switches provide
PoE to every port for voice, video, data
or wireless devices.
End-to-End Manageability
As a member of Extreme Networks’
comprehensive family of switches, the
Summit 300 series switches can be
centrally deployed, managed, and
monitored using EPICenter
®
manage-
ment platform from Extreme Networks or
any SNMP-based products. In addition,
Extreme Networks offers the RF Manager
site survey tool for simplified wireless
design and its AccessAdapt™ utility for a
no-configuration installation of the
Altitude APs.
High-Performance with QoS
for Converged Applications
With its non-blocking architecture the
Summit 300 series switches enable all
RJ-45 copper 10/100 ports to operate at
line-rate. Four hardware queues per
10/100 port provide granularity, low
latency and low jitter for time-sensitive
voice and multi-media applications.
These applications also benefit from
features such as DiffServ and 802.1p
which deliver varied levels of service and
ensure efficient bandwidth usage. Copper
and SFP GBIC Gigabit Ethernet uplink
ports can be configured as active and
redundant for fast Layer 1 failover. These
uplink ports provide the added flexibility
of port redundancy between copper and
fiber ports, enabling backup links to the
active uplinks with sub-second (50ms)
failover capability through EAPS.
The Summit 300 series switches offer a
number of features that improve the
performance of the network, such as RIP,
OSPF, Network Address Translation, QoS
classification, dynamic VLANs, and ACLs.
For converged applications involving
voice or rich media, the switch provides
multicast, re-writing 802.1p tag prioritiza-
tion, or prioritization using Layer 2/3/4.
Rate shaping can be used for optimum
VoIP performance.
The Summit 300 series switches deliver
advanced high availability features
traditionally reserved for carrier net-
works. EAPS (RFC 3619) delivers sub-
second (less than 50ms recovery)
protection switching to interconnected
switches in an Ethernet ring topology.
Similar to the Spanning Tree Protocol
(STP), EAPS offers the advantage of
converging in significantly less time than
STP or even Rapid Spanning Tree
(802.1w) when a link breaks in the ring.
Extreme Standby Routing Protocol™
(ESRP) can be implemented at both
Layers 2 and 3 and extends the Virtual
Redundant Redundancy Protocol’s
(VRRP) capabilities, adding Layer 2
resiliency and loop prevention and Layer
3 default router redundancy. It can be
used as a STP substitute and can be
scaled to protect thousands of VLANs.
Multiple instances of ESRP in the same
VLAN allow direct host attachment to
standby switches.
Equal Cost Multipath adds network
resiliency as multiple equal-cost routes
can be used concurrently to an end
destination. With the software redundant
port feature, a specified primary port can
be backed up by another port. Should the
link go down on the primary port, the
redundant port will establish a link and
become active. Thus multi-homed
redundancy can be easily designed
without the implementing complexity of
a protocol.
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