Extreme Previews Industry’s First On-Prem Enterprise AI Infrastructure for Networking

Nabil Bukhari, CTO and President of AI Platforms at Extreme Networks

“We’ve spent decades building networks that reach every corner of the enterprise, and those networks hold a lot of idle compute. Exchange zones will put that compute to work, letting AI run locally on infrastructure customers already own. That delivers sovereignty, local inferencing, and better economics than sending everything to the cloud. Customers control their data, inference, and cost inside a boundary they define, with a record of every exception. No one is better positioned to bring AI to the edge than Extreme. We already run the networks where that work happens”

Brandon Butler, IDC Senior Research Manager, Networking and Infrastructure Services

“As AI moves toward the distributed sites where enterprise data is generated, organizations need to run AI applications on-premises to meet data sovereignty requirements and control inferencing cost - yet many AI marketplaces still assume a cloud-only model. Exchange zones is an innovative approach that brings a marketplace of AI applications to customer premises, using spare capacity in existing network infrastructure to keep data local”