Fabric Connect
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Fabric Connect.
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Fabric Connect, in Computer Networking Usage is the name used by Extreme Networks to market an extended implementation of the IEEE 802.1aq and IEEE 802.1ah-2008 standards.
The Fabric Connect technology was originally developed by the Enterprise Solutions R&D department within Nortel Networks. In 2009, Avaya, Inc acquired Nortel Networks Enterprise Business Solutions; this transaction included the Fabric Connect intellectual property together with all of the Ethernet Switching platforms that supported it.[1] Subsequently, the Fabric Connect technology became part of the Extreme Networks portfolio by virtue of their 2017 purchase of the Avaya Networking business and assets.[2] It was during the Avaya era that this technology was promoted as the lead element of the Virtual Enterprise Network Architecture (VENA).[3]
For their part, Extreme Networks stated that acquiring the Avaya Networking assets and more specifically the "Award-Winning Fabric Technology...strengthens extreme's position as a leader across the education, healthcare and government markets".[4]