Brocade
| Brocade Communications Systems, Inc.
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| legal form | Aktiengesellschaft (Corporation) |
| ISIN | US1116213067 |
| founding | 1995 |
| Seat |
 San Jose , California
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| management | Lloyd Carney (CEO) |
| Number of employees | 4,640 (October 31, 2015) |
| sales | 2,263,000,000 USD (2015) |
| Branch | network technology |
| Website | www.brcd.com |
Brocade Communications Systems is an American manufacturer of network components such as switches , routers and related software. On November 2, 2016, Broadcom announced it would take over Brocade. This acquisition was completed in 2017. Parts of the company should be resold directly.
Brocade was founded in 1995 by Seth Neiman, Paul Bonderson and Kumar Malavalli.
In 2012, Brocade took over the developer of the Vyatta Open firmware router .
Web links
- Official website (English)
- Success stories
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Brocade Executive Committee , accessed December 4, 2016
- ↑ http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/03/business/dealbook/broadcom-to-buy-brocade-communications-for-5-5-billion.html
- ↑ https://www.heise.de/netze/meldung/Broadcom-will-Brocade-uebernehmen-und-aufspalten-3454986.html
- ^ Google Books
- ↑ Brocade buys Cisco nemesis Vyatta , published November 5, 2012, accessed December 5, 2016