Specifications

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Trusted Delivery
Trusted Delivery from Extreme Networks is designed to
protect your key service delivery infrastructure at remote,
often-unattended sites, as well as within colocation and
data center environments where shared facility access is
a concern. With Measured Boot – a security mechanism
designed to verify the boot and runtime processes -
Extreme Networks provides the capability to validate
hardware components, boot process, and the operating
system from factory to installation. Combined with remote
attestation, where a trusted o-box challenger provides an
objective measurement of trust, Measured Boot provides
ongoing binary-level validation during operation.
Modular, Virtualized Operation System
The 8720 runs Extreme SLX-OS, a fully virtualized Linux-
based operating system that delivers process-level
resiliency and fault isolation. SLX-OS supports advanced
switching features and is highly programmable with
support for REST API, Python, and NETCONF/RESTCONF.
It is based on Linux, which oers all the advantages of
open source and access to commonly used Linux tools.
With enhanced support for Trusted Delivery features, such
as Measured Boot and strong security defaults, Extreme
SLX-OS continues to further protect against ever-growing
security threats to infrastructure.
Management
The 8720 can be managed in a variety of ways. REST,
NETCONF management interface or simple on- box
management functions are delivered with CLI for
manual configuration.
Plug-n-Play Data Center Fabrics with
Extreme Fabric Automation
Extreme Fabric Automation simplifies and accelerates the
deployment of the data center IP Fabric. The on-box
application runs as a service on the Integrated Application
Hosting environment within the 8720 and uses industry-
standard open API based programmable interfaces to
provide the easiest way to deploy, provision and automate
single or multiple data center IP Fabric networks in the
fastest and most ecient way. Extreme Fabric Automation
is also the point of integration for VMware vCenter,
Microsoft Hyper-V and OpenStack.
High-Availability and Reliability
The 8720 delivers the high performance and reliability
required by modern enterprises and service provider
data centers. It is designed for high availability from both
a software and hardware perspective, such as a clear
separation between the control plane and data plane and
redundant power supplies and fan modules.
Integrated Application Hosting
The 8720 can run onboard VM-based applications alongside
the switch OS—all without impacting performance. This
flexible and open solution enables organizations to
deploy Extreme- provided or third-party applications
and tools directly on the switch for security, monitoring,
troubleshooting or extended network functionality— based
on customer need—without a separate hardware device.
This unique design does not impact the control and
forwarding plane of the switch and provides dedicated
CPUs, memory and SSD storage for flexible packet capture
and o-line processing.