Thursday, January 10, 2013

Shehzad Merchant Appointed CTO of Extreme Networks

Extreme Networks promoted Shehzad T. Merchant to the position of Chief Technical Officer (CTO).

Merchant holds 10 technology patents for networking including Policy-based quality of service, unified, configurable, adaptive network infrastructure, VLAN aggregation, and security/access intrusion detection.  Recently, Merchant has shaped the company's Open Fabric data center strategy for open networking for virtualized data center and cloud switching, Software Defined Networking (SDN) and the Company's flagship software platform, ExtremeXOS, which supports a rich set of APIs, networked applications, and OpenFlow tools enabling customization, more efficient management and secure Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) at the network edge.

http://www.extremenetworks.com