The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) is a globalfederation of national standards bodies. ISO 9001:2000 certificationrepresents strict adherence to the highest standards and practices throughdocumented procedures that cover all key business processes, monitoringsystems to ensure business process effectiveness, thorough record-keeping,and quality monitoring systems facilitating continual improvement in theorganization.

Extreme Networks' ISO certification marks satisfactory completion to ayear-long project preparing the organization for the independent ISO auditby TÜV SÜD America.

"Extreme Networks has demonstrated itself as an organization where theapplication of ISO 9001, throughout its headquarters and design centers, isfocused on both improving business effectiveness and increasingefficiency," said Hermann Ries, Lead Auditor from TÜV SÜD America. "Fromthe CEO and president and on down to all employees, there is a pervasiveenergy to deliver on the intent of the ISO requirements in their processesto make the business more capable at meeting increasing customer demandsfor excellence. This summarizes why TÜV America has recommended ExtremeNetworks for certification to the ISO 9001:2000 standard on their initialcertification audit."

"The completion of ISO certification is a key milestone that matches ourorganization-wide commitment to quality standards and excellence that willresonate well with our many global partners and customers," said MarkCanepa, president and CEO of Extreme Networks. "We are very pleased tohave achieved our goal of ISO 9001:200 compliance and look forward tocontinually improving our business processes in the years ahead."

About Extreme Networks, Inc.

Extreme Networks provides converged Ethernet networks that support data,voice and video for enterprises and service providers. The company'snetwork solutions feature high performance and high availability switchingthat deliver insight and control enabling customers to solve theirreal-world business communications challenges. Operating in more than 50countries, Extreme Networks provides wired and wireless secure LANs, datacenter infrastructure and Service Provider Ethernet transport solutionsthat are complemented by global, 24x7 service and support. For moreinformation, visit: http://www.extremenetworks.com

Except for the historical information contained herein, the matters setforth in this press release, including without limitation the performance,power efficiency, and functionality of Extreme Networks products areforward-looking statements within the meaning of the "safe harbor"provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Theseforward-looking statements speak only as of the date. Because suchstatements deal with future events, they are subject to risks anduncertainties, including network design, actual product performance, anduse of the products in different environments and configurations. Weundertake no obligation to update the forward-looking information in thisrelease. Other important factors which could cause actual results to differmaterially are contained in the Company's 10-Qs and 10-Ks which are on filewith the Securities and Exchange Commission (http://www.sec.gov).

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