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Extreme

Based on 162 reviews.

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Based on 137 reviews.

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Sample Customers

ExtremeControl

Street Crane, Robert Bosch, Molex Chengdu, Weir Valves & Controls UK, Renault, AESSEAL, Ducati, Alexander Dennis, UK Ministry of Defence, Manz

ExtremeCloud IQ

Henry Ford Health System, Baltimore Ravens, Brandili, Federal University of Alagoas, CEDAE, Caxias do Sul, UNISC Concurrency, CenturyLink Field, Louisiana College, Cricket Tasmania Stadium, Moscow Internet Exchange

Popular Solutions

ExtremeCloud IQ

7 reviews

ExtremeWireless

14 reviews

ExtremeSwitching

9 reviews

McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator

8 reviews

McAfee Complete Data Protection

6 reviews

McAfee Total Protection for Data Loss Prevention

5 reviews

Top Industries

Computer Software Company

13%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Comms Service Provider

Government

Financial Services Firm

15%

Computer Software Company

11%

Manufacturing Company

Government

Quotes From Member Reviews

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Most Helpful Reviews

MURALI NIDAMANURI
Managing Director at VIPUN COGNITIVE SOLUTIONS PVT LTD.
Our primary use case for ExtremeSwitching is for costing, access networking, routing, and meeting network...
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Imran Taiyeb Ali
Senior Solutions Specialist at a comms service provider
My company uses ExtremeRouting for a big LAN environment, where there is a need for ERS switches, including Extreme...
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Jan Zontek
System Engineer at Poczta FM
The main use cases for ExtremeControl among my customers are to authenticate the users here for the end systems in...
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Ufuk KINDAP
Technical Coordinator at Yildiz Technical University
I primarily used ExtremeCloud IQ to provide wireless internet connections to our students and academic staff. I...
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Karel Ondracek
Network Administrator at THK Co Ltd
I use ExtremeWireless ( /products/extremewireless-reviews ) for several projects. One is for standard end users,...
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ObaseunAwoyinfa
Security Consultant at Trinexia
For any type of protection strategy, the natural use cases involve protecting sensitive data that shouldn't be...
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VivekGupta7
DGM at a financial services firm
McAfee Web Protection is for our entire system, regardless of the brand. It is implemented in all systems through an...
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Wahidur Rahman
Senior Executive Officer at United Commercial Bank Limited
Our primary use case for this solution is activity, authentication, and scans for audit purposes and priority...
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PankajKumar24
IT Manager at Gigabit Technologies Pvt Ltd
The use cases for McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator ( /products/mcafee-epolicy-orchestrator-reviews ) involve deploying...
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Akhtar Hussain Rizvi
Deputy Group Manager - Systems at Titan Company Ltd
The solution is mainly used for sensitive data protection.
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Customer Service

Dushan Niranga
Product Manager at Connex Information Technologies
We have taken support from ExtremeAnalytics. I rate the support from ExtremeAnalytics an eight out of ten.
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Yintho Taev
Logistics Supervisor at Andromeda Distribution Corporation
I was satisfied with the technical support.
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GlennCamilien
Senior Cybersecurity Engineer at a financial services firm
I rate ExtremeSwitching support eight out of 10. They did the job, but I couldn't say it was the best support because...
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Anonymous User
Information Technology Coordinator at a university
Customer Service: Excellent service. Yes, the service was and is excellent. And again, and again, the one hundred and...
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Anonymous User
IT Admin at a engineering company
Customer Service: They have been very eager to please us. Technical Support: As with any other IT vendor I've worked...
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Anonymous User
Principal Systems Engineer at a construction company
The ExtremeWireless technical support is mediocre. I would rate the technical support a four out of ten.
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WaelAwni
Engineer at NewLogics
I rate technical support for ExtremeControl as between six and seven out of ten.
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Ufuk KINDAP
Technical Coordinator at Yildiz Technical University
The Extreme Turkey office directed me to their partners for support. I experienced effective help mainly remotely,...
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Anonymous User
Senior Manager, Information Technology at a university
We would prefer it if the support was a bit better. It could be faster. We find it's not as good as, for example, Cisco.
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Anonymous User
Founder and CEO at a security firm
The tech support is very helpful although there's always room for improvement.
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Anonymous User
Vice President of Information Technology at a tech services company
Customer Service: Customer service is excellent. We purchased through a local reseller, and they were our point of...
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Anonymous User
IT Administrator II at a university
Customer Service: Customer service has always been superb. Sales and technical support are always friendly, efficient...
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Santosh Khargotre
Senior Project Manager at CITS
The technical support is good.
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Wael Awni
Management Board Member and Network Engineer at NewLogics
We have not had any experience with customer service and support.
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Anonymous User
Senior Manager, Information Technology at a university
Technical support is good.
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Anonymous User
ICT Network Manager at a non-tech company
We don't go directly to the vendor. Rather, we get our technical support from a third party, and they have been good...
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Anonymous User
Co-Founder at a tech services company
I haven't needed to contact technical support.
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Anonymous User
Head of Information technologies systems department at a manufacturing company
We have not needed support.
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Anonymous User
Jr Support Technician at a government
I don't have any experience with their technical support.
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Anonymous User
Network Administrator at a government
Customer Service: I haven't used it much, but it's great when I have. Technical Support: Top notch! The technicians...
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NIBRAS FARES
field service manager at Saudi Business Machines - SBM
We tried to get support, but they don’t offer 24/7 coverage. The response time was slower than expected, and support...
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Anonymous User
Manager - IT Infrastructure at a non-tech company
Customer Service: Customer Service is excellent! I have had no reason to give them less than a 10 on a post ticket...
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Anonymous User
Product manager at a tech services company
The technical support from Extreme Networks is perfect. If we have an issue then there's always very quick response...
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WaelAwni
Engineer at NewLogics
The technical support is rated as six out of ten. We have experienced some cases being closed without resolution,...
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Anonymous User
-- at a tech company
Customer Service: The customer service with Aerohive is outstanding. The have forums and a support site. They are...
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Anonymous User
Windows/Mac Network Administrator at a tech company
Customer Service: Customer service has been great. Any issues I have had were answered quickly and we were able to...
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Anonymous User
Vice President Operations at a non-profit
Customer Service: The customer service has been great. We had a few questions when configuring Radius. When we...
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Anonymous User
Level 3 Support Technician at a real estate/law firm
Customer Service: 3 out of 5, depending on the technician you get some want to troubleshoot over email other will...
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Haziq Kamal
Systems Engineer at LinkAxia Networks Sdn Bhd
The customer service and support provided by Extreme are excellent.
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Anonymous User
Principal System Engineer at a tech company
Customer Service: We have never needed to approach customer service as the device has never given us any troubles....
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ObaseunAwoyinfa
Security Consultant at Trinexia
For data protection, I have never really had to leverage support. I’ve not had to deal with support on any of the...
Read full review of McAfee Complete Data Protection »
Meleria Mangaring
Solutions Engineer at Trends and Technologies, Inc
McAfee offers very good technical support and we have been very happy with its capabilities. We find support to be...
Read full review of McAfee Total Protection for Data Loss Prevention »
Shreyansh Sharma
Instrument and Control Engineer at Reliance Industries Ltd
We have found the technical support to be very helpful. They are responsive and available when we need them to help...
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Kamal Abdelrahman
Country Manager at Magarah
In general the technical is average. Not great but not bad.
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Vincent Watti
Owner at Network Technics & Systems Ltd
The support is good. We've interacted with them directly a few times.
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Jagdish Lomte
Founder & CEO at StreaMplify
The support from McAfee Total Protection for Data Loss Prevention is good. However, if they provided 24 hours a day...
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Vivek Sathaye
Director at Benelec
The support from McAfee Total Protection for Data Loss Prevention could improve.
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MuhammadKhan1
Associate Manager IT at Hi-Tech Foods
My experience is very good with customer support. When I had an issue with the initial charges related to the setup,...
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Boubacar Khouma
Owner at xconsult
I have not been in contact with McAfee's technical support.
Read full review of McAfee Total Protection for Data Loss Prevention »
Roi Nahari
CTO- Consulting Services at 2bsecure
The support needs some improvement. It needs to be more professional.
Read full review of Sentrigo Hedgehog [EOL] »
Mohd Fadhil
Security Engineer at Mavisco Resources Sdn Bhd
The technical support is good.
Read full review of McAfee Web Gateway Cloud Service »
Sanjit Achary
Senior Manager at a tech services company
We've been in touch with technical support in the past. They've been quite good. We've been satisfied with their...
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Anonymous User
Computer Technician at a leisure / travel company
We do not call McAfee directly because they couldn't provide us with the help we needed onsite because we needed...
Read full review of McAfee Firewall Enterprise MFE [EOL] »
Anonymous User
Information Security Engineer at a tech services company
When we've had issues in the past, and, although they ended up solving our problem, we found the response time was...
Read full review of McAfee Total Protection for Data Loss Prevention »
DucDoan
Security Manager at a tech services company
For the most part, technical support has been great. When we've had technical problems, they've helped us. I've found...
Read full review of McAfee Vulnerability Manager for Databases [EOL] »
RahulRaju
Security Specialist at Perth Airport
While there are bugs and a few functionality issues, it is just a matter of raising them with the support team....
Read full review of McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator »
Daniel Colombani
Lead: Incident Response, Investigation & Vulnerability Management at a government
The technical support is great. When we put in a ticket, they respond in a few hours. If we put in that the server is...
Read full review of McAfee Web Protection [EOL] »
JonathanChawatama
IT Security Consultant at ZOL Zimbabwe
I'd rate technical support seven out of ten. Every year we have to go through product certifications, so we hardly...
Read full review of McAfee Complete Data Protection »
Anatolii Konstantynov
Project Engineer at ISSP
When contacting support, we would have to wait days before getting a response, and other times they were not able to...
Read full review of McAfee Complete Data Protection »
RajuBhatt
retired
I've never had to reach out to the support.
Read full review of McAfee Complete Data Protection »
Kalidas Mangle
Sr. System Engineer at Zensar Technologies
I rate the technical support a ten out of ten.
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Anonymous User
Technical Engineer at a tech services company
Technical products are bound to get stuck due to the technical processes involved. Sometimes, certain new issues crop...
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Anonymous User
Network Architect at a tech services company
I've never dealt with technical support in the past. I can't speak to how knowledgeable or responsive they are. I've...
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Yash Rana
Manager IT at OTE
The technical support of McAfee is good and that is why we use McAfee products. The support and protection is very...
Read full review of McAfee Complete Data Protection »
Stephen Odongo
Technical Support Engineer at Professional Technologies Kenya
The technical support is very good and they respond quite quickly.
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Anonymous User
Senior Consultant at a financial services firm
We had a local technical support company and did not deal with McAfee at the regional level. I can say that our local...
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Anonymous User
Implementation Engineer at a tech vendor
McAfee's technical support is actually fine.
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Anonymous User
Network Engineer Info & Security at a comms service provider
Customer Service: It's ok. Technical Support: It's satisfactory; a few engineers from the McAfee Firewall tech...
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Anonymous User
Lead Cyber Security Consultant at a security firm
The most important thing is how they enable our team. They provide us with good support during the pre-sales stages.
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Shaik Sayeed
Information Technology Solutions Manager at UBG
I think that the technical support can be improved. It should be cheaper, faster and more comprehensive as far as the...
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