Extreme to Acquire Zebra's WLAN Business

[Drew_C]

By now, you've probably heard the news - Extreme Networks has agreed to acquire the WLAN business from Zebra Technologies.
Here's an announcement about this from our CEO, Ed Meyercord.

You can read more here:

• Press Release
• Frequently Asked Questions
• Zebra's WLAN Page

What are your thoughts on this acquisition? We're excited about it, and I hope you are too!

-Drew

[Ryan_Mathews]

Welcome to the Hub Curtis. We're glad to have you join the Extreme Community officially.

Great questions here. Drew Claybrook (Hub Community Manager) and I have been in contact with your Account Manager and will get you a response for your specific scenario.

I suspect other folks that run their WLAN on WiNG over the years have similar questions, so we'll get a broader response to this for those that read in the future.

Thanks for your trust in Extreme Networks. More to come on this.....

[Ryan_Mathews]

Thanks Andre for sharing your thoughts and ideas on the future.

Though we can't yet share too many details about this announcement (beyond what Drew's cataloged at the beginning of the thread of course), rest assured that our Product Management team is watching this very thread.

We all very much appreciate your engagement and excitement for the future of our WLAN roadmap.

Hope others share on the Hub as well.

[Andre_Brits_Kan]

Hi Looking at the Zebra product line (Not being exposed to this in the past) the location based service and Air Defense is great. The WiNG also looks like a good product with nice features build into the AP (NAT, GRE ect ect). My question/concern is the same as James. Will the current Identify/Zebra product all be incorporated into one system? If we look at other Wireless vendors like HP they have three different product lines. None of them can operate with the other and each requires different management. So ultimately I think this is great, Extreme Networks will move into a strong number 3 in the overall Vendor WIFi space, but will the two product lines stay separate or will they be merged with a single platform?

[Ryan_Mathews]

Nice share James. Network World's very own Zeus Kerravala's take on things is always great.

[Ryan_Mathews]

Thanks for sharing your thoughts James. Always good to read your take on things.
I love how forward thinking our Hub members are on these types of issues.

I'm hoping others will similarly post their thoughts.

It's engagement like this and our customer's inquiring minds that serve as input to future purple technology decisions.