SAN JOSE, Calif., April 23, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Beyond merely
connecting devices and infrastructure, smart cities have the
potential to create more engaged citizens, improve city services,
ensure public safety, and foster a higher quality of life.
Recognizing this, the City of Memphis,
Tennessee has selected Extreme Networks, Inc (Nasdaq: EXTR)
to create a powerful and adaptive network that can support its
technology-driven initiatives and lay the foundation for
Memphis to be one of the
"smartest" cities in the country.
Home to FedEx and the world's second busiest cargo airport,
Memphis is the global leader in
transportation, distribution, and logistics. With a large
population and a city footprint of roughly 324 square miles, it
faces some challenges with delivering efficient and effective
public services. To solve this, Memphis is working to deploy a smart, flexible
network that lays the groundwork for a future-forward, resilient
transportation system that seamlessly moves people, traffic, and
cargo through the City. For example, Memphis looks to deploy autonomous trucks and
an intelligent routing system for transporting citizens and
packages, which will both greatly enhance transit and place
entirely new demands on the City's network infrastructure.
Pioneering smart city initiatives depend on an agile, adaptive,
secure infrastructure. By deploying Extreme's Automated Campus™
solutions, including switching, management, and analytics
technology, as well as Extreme Professional Services, the City can
simplify network management, accommodate growing bandwidth demands,
and support the use of forward-looking technologies as it continues
its digital transformation efforts. Initial deployments will enable
AI-powered IP camera implementations at 27 community centers to
provide real-time anomaly detection.
Key benefits:
- Automated, software-driven infrastructure: With
ExtremeSwitching™ hardware and Extreme Fabric Connect™, the
City of Memphis has the tools to
implement cross-domain and workflow automation when and where it
needs to within its massive network infrastructure – a critical
capability as its 90-person IT team continues its aggressive
digital transformation efforts.
- Visibility, control, and security for IoT devices: In
smart cities and large-scale IoT deployments with hundreds of
thousands of mobile and IoT devices connecting to the network, the
potential attack surface significantly expands, creating entirely
new vulnerabilities to protect against. Extreme's Fabric Connect™
enables the City of Memphis to
segment its network according to traffic type and create private
virtual networks to protect and isolate critical services without
any IP reachability in or out.
- Centralized management and granular analytics: In
complex smart city environments, unified visibility and control is
critical. Leveraging Extreme Management Center™, The City of Memphis will gain a 360-degree view of
the wired and wireless network, users, devices, and applications.
With ExtremeAnalytics™, they'll have granular, real-time insights,
allowing the IT team to determine which devices and applications
are consuming the most bandwidth, and speed up
troubleshooting.
Executive Perspectives
Abby Strong, Vice President
of Product Marketing, Extreme Networks
"The
City of Memphis is already making
impressive strides in its smart city initiatives, deploying
AI-powered IP cameras in dozens of community centers to improve
safety and communications. But it's just the tip of the iceberg.
With a secure, automated network at its core, Memphis has laid the fabric across the city to
create new, tech-driven experiences and achieve greater
efficiencies and quality of life for its citizens."
Michael Rodriguez, CIO,
City of Memphis
"The
City's vision is to use technology to tackle some of our most
difficult challenges, from pollution and traffic to health and
public safety. As we move toward that future, we need a robust,
secure, software-driven infrastructure that can interface with
third-party solutions, and provide a path to automation. The
solutions that Extreme provides will be instrumental in making our
city one of the smartest in America."
Extreme Connect
The Future of Smart Cities will be on
display in full-force at the Extreme Connect User Conference,
May 13-16, 2019 in Nashville, Tennessee. For more details and to
register, click here.
Additional Resources
- Connect with Extreme
via Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and YouTube
- Securing and Automating Smart Cities Blog
- Extreme Automated Campus Solution Page
- Extreme Management Center Product Page
- ExtremeSwitching Product Page
- ExtremeAnalytics Product Page
- Extreme Fabric Connect Solution Brief
- Extreme Professional Services Solution Page
About Extreme Networks
Extreme Networks, Inc. (EXTR) delivers software-driven
solutions from the enterprise edge to the cloud that are agile,
adaptive, and secure to enable digital transformation. Our
100% in-sourced services and support are number one in the
industry. Even with 30,000 customers globally, including half of
the Fortune 50 and some of the world's leading names in business,
hospitality, retail, transportation and logistics, education,
government, healthcare and manufacturing, we remain nimble and
responsive to ensure customer and partner success. We call this
Customer-Driven Networking™. Founded in 1996, Extreme is
headquartered in San Jose, California. For more
information, visit Extreme's website or call
1-888-257-3000.
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