Abstract

Video/voice, database, financial and other applications put increasing bandwidth demands on the network. Even with these ever-increasing demands, it is expected that a networks’ latency remains low.

Extreme Networks, Inc. commissioned Tolly to test and verify L2/L3 performance, power consumption, latency and features of their Summit X460 Series switch.

The test results show that a Summit X460 series loaded to 100% of capacity will not drop traffic while still maintaining low latency. Thus, the Summit X460 will not compromise overall network performance during periods of high traffic. The Extreme Networks Summit X460 earned 18 Tolly certifications for product functionality in QoS, L3 functionality and other areas, as well as a key feature: SummitStack-V, which allows stacking across all Summit series switches. Power consumption tests proved the Summit X460-48p consumes less than 105W during periods of high network utilization.