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Rancho Water Taps Extreme Networks to Support Delivery of Critical Water Services to Thousands of California Residents
Public Utility Company Leverages Secure and Resilient Wired and Wireless Network Solutions To Power 45,000 Service Connections Across 100,000 Acres SAN JOSE,
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[{"type":"text","content":"Public Utility Company Leverages Secure and Resilient Wired and Wireless Network Solutions To Power 45,000 Service Connections Across 100,000 Acres\n\n\n SAN JOSE, Calif., May 19, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Extreme Networks, Inc. (Nasdaq: EXTR), a cloud-driven networking company, today announced Rancho California Water District, an essential public utility in Temecula, California, has deployed Extreme's networking solutions to connect and power its vast, 24/7 operations. Rancho Water delivers high-quality water and reclamation services to 155,000 customers across 150 square miles every day, and it prioritizes safety, redundancy, and reliability in its operations. Extreme provides a secure and resilient technology infrastructure and an effortless networking experience so the utility's small IT team can focus on delivering new applications and analytics-driven services for its growing customer base, rather than outages.\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \nRancho Water has worked with Extreme Networks for 15 years. The utility initially selected Extreme to provide Ethernet automatic protection switching (EAPS), a cost-effective solution for enabling a redundant network connection between facilities. The utility worked with Extreme to make additional network updates over time, including upgrading all links between intermediate distribution frames (IDFs) and data centers to 10G and multi-line fiber. Today, leveraging wired and wireless networking solutions from the Extreme Elements™ portfolio to support 45,000 service connections, Rancho Water maintains continual uptime, control, and security throughout its 100,000-acre service area.\nKey Benefits:\nEnd-to-end visibility and control: With Extreme Management Center,™ Rancho Water has granular, end-to-end visibility into every port and every device that logs onto its network. A network access control function allows the IT team to identify anomalistic events and provides control at the device level across all systems. With the confidence they've gained from easier control and management, Rancho Water is planning to deploy IoT devices across its network to help monitor and deliver key services.No single point of failure: With ExtremeSwitching™ technology configured in an EAPS ring to connect multiple sites – including two campus locations, two data centers, 10 IDFs, multiple internet connections and wi...