"Brocade has been busy converging Ethernet with Fibre Channel, and has introduced gear featuring Fibre Channel over Ethernet to support SANs," the solution provider said. "They are adapting networking technologies to merchant silicon."Įxtreme Network's acquisition of Brocade's networking business raises the question of what happens to Brocade's move over the last few years to meld Fibre Channel and IP networking technologies, the solution provider said. "Any of the new networking companies coming to market are positioning their business to be API-driven," the solution provider told CRN USA. The steady stream of acquisitions in the networking industry come as legacy vendors consolidate in the face of new technologies such as software-defined networking, said one solution provider close to Brocade and Cisco, who preferred to remain anonymous. Brocade's IP networking business includes Ruckus Wireless, which Brocade acquired in early 2016. In November, semiconductor maker Broadcom said it would acquire networking systems supplier Brocade Communications Systems in a blockbuster US$5.9 billion deal. Broadcom, at the time, said it would retain Brocade's Fibre Channel SAN switching business and divest Brocade's IP networking business. In October, Extreme completed the acquisition of Zebra Technology's wireless LAN business for US$55 million, creating one of the top three WLAN enterprise campus providers in the world. The company in early March said it plans to pay US$100 million to acquire Avaya's networking business just months after Avaya said it was seeking Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. The deal, under which Extreme Networks would gain Brocade's data centre switching, routing, and analytics business once Broadcom finishes its acquisition of Brocade, is valued at US$55 million, which includes US$35 million in cash on close of the deal and US$20 million in deferred payments over a five-year period.įor Extreme, it is the second big acquisition to be unveiled this month. "With Brocade, we get yet another area where we compete against Cisco."
When we win a deal, it's taking a refresh deal from Cisco, or winning a new deployment against Cisco," said Norman Rice, Extreme Networks' executive vice president of global marketing, supply chain, and corporate development.
The move, combined with several other recent acquisitions by Extreme Networks, will help make the company a more formidable competitor to networking giant Cisco Systems.
Extreme Networks revealed it has agreed to purchase Brocade Communications Systems' data centre networking business from Broadcom.
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