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Accelerating the Evolution of Networking

Today's networking customers need better performance, real choice, and a more pragmatic approach to converged networking.

 

Brocade is happy to announce that all of that is closer than ever before - Brocade and Foundry Networks will soon be one. As they start to combine forces, networking customers around the world will get a true, high-performance provider who can deliver cutting-edge solutions that extend from the edges of the Internet to the heart of the data center.

A Message to Foundry Customers from Brocade
Brocade is committed to continuing to deliver and invest in Foundry products and solutions following the closing of the acquisition. As part of this ongoing commitment, we will provide a detailed product roadmap after the acquisition close. You can also count on the combined company to help you implement and support your current and future networking projects, allowing you to maximize the value of your Foundry infrastructure. Read more about this Message to Foundry Customers from Brocade.

Forward Momentum
Thanks to Brocade proven, market-leading, complementary technology portfolio that spans local, metro, wide, and storage area networks, Brocade will be one of only two companies in the entire networking industry who can offer such a valuable, broad set of solutions. And as today's and tomorrow's enterprise and service provider, networks and data centers are being architected in ways that converge technologies from end to end, Brocade is in a bold position to uniquely deliver exactly what the market needs.

Good for Everybody
This combination is good for customers, good for investors, and good for the employees. By advancing a technology roadmap that embraces Fibre Channel and Ethernet, leveraging Brocade's acknowledged leadership in innovation, reliability, and support/service, and extending their world-class relationships with the industry's top OEMs and customers, Brocade can effectively boost the performance of evolving networks extending from LAN to SAN.

Brocade believes this represents a giant leap forward. And look forward to continuing to create solutions that enable next-generation, high-performance, end-to-end networks to come to life.

Learn More About the Foundry Acquisition