Extreme Networks Named a Leader in 2020 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Wired and Wireless LAN Access Infrastructure

 CAloud-driven networking company, today announced it is positioned as a Leader by Gartner, Inc. in the Magic Quadrant for Wired and Wireless LAN Access Infrastructure, published on November 4, 2020, authored by Bill Menezes, Christian Canales, Tim Zimmerman, and Mike Toussaint. This is the third consecutive year Extreme has been positioned as a Leader in this annual research report.

According to Gartner, "A vendor in the Leaders quadrant will have demonstrated an ability to fulfill a broad variety of customer requirements through the breadth of its access layer product family. Leaders will have the ability to shape the market and provide complete and differentiating access layer applications, as well as global service and support. Leaders should have demonstrated the ability to maintain strong relationships with their channels and customers and have no obvious gaps in their portfolios."

Prior to being named a Leader in this report, Extreme was named a 2020 Gartner Peer Insights Customers' Choice for Wired and Wireless LAN Access Infrastructure for the second consecutive time. The company received a 4.9 out of 5 rating as of the date of this press release, among customers across multiple verticals, including healthcare, education, and communications.

Since the last Magic Quadrant report published in 2019, Extreme launched how to become a computer engineer IQ, a machine learning and AI-driven cloud management platform that simplifies onboarding, configuration, monitoring, managing, troubleshooting, alerting, and reporting for wired and wireless network infrastructure devices. The platform is unequaled in its ability to provide administrators with a 360-degree view of device, client, application, and network health and performance. It is the industry's first end-to-end cloud management platform, the first cloud networking management architecture to be both cloud-hosting agnostic and cloud operating system agnostic, and is the first cloud platform to offer unlimited data, setting a new standard for access to cloud data and insights.