China's IT leader Legend Group and Extreme Networks partner to drive integrated networked solutions for enterprises.

Extreme Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ:EXTR), a provider of infrastructure networking solutions, is partnering with China's leading IT company, Legend Group to double its presence in this fast growing region. The two technology leaders are working together to provide enterprise customers across China with co-branded high performance networking systems that offer the industry's lowest total cost of ownership (TCO).

Together the two companies, which are both leaders in technology, market share, service and channel relationships, forge a very powerful network service supplier alliance in China.

"This type of partnership is one of the steps Extreme is undertaking to strengthen its position as a dominant networking vendor," said Chris Todd, senior vice president of worldwide sales for Extreme Networks. "Network users in China will benefit from the integration of superior technology and market leadership resulting from this partnership."

"Built on the strength of Legend's product offerings and the growing market share of Extreme Networks in China, this is a win-win solution for local customers," said Wan Changqing, general manager of Legend Group's Networks Division.

As part of its successful global strategy, Extreme Networks entered the Chinese market in early 2000 and has since established offices in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Chengdu. Demonstrating its worldwide commitment, the Company localized its products to ensure compatibility within the new market. Today, Extreme Networks operates across all of China providing leading universities and businesses with high performance networks, including such notable organizations as Shanghai Jiao Tong Universities, Beijing University of Post & Telecommunication; Beijing Tsing Hua University; China Telecom, China Netcom and the Lai Zhou Steel Group.

As one of the most dominant companies in China's IT industry, Legend offers a wide range of products addressing consumer and commercial enterprise markets. Ranked as the number one supplier by sales volume in the Asian PC market, Legend has also established a leading position in other key segments of IT. For example, Legend's Wanquan Server solution was ranked seventh in the global server market and its Trillion type high-performance clustered computing platform is utilized for the Chinese government's State 863 project, for the research and development of high technology.

Extreme's market-leading BlackDiamond and Alpine modular switching platforms will be integrated into Legend's "Collaborating Application" platform, the key component of its enterprise "IT GreatServer Strategy." With the addition of Extreme Networks' products, Legend fulfills its goal to provide large enterprises with a complete solution for high performance servers, data storage and Ethernet networking functionality. Extreme and Legend will also partner to sell co-branded switching systems featuring scalable 10 Gigabit Ethernet with support for IPv6 technology and advanced bandwidth management with Quality of Service (QoS).