Brocade is a data and storage networking solutions company that provides businesses with innovative storage area networking (SAN) and routing technologies. Brocade provides products in areas such as application delivery, wireless networking, data center fabric, data center switching, campus networking, network security, routing, and software networking.
Founded in 1995 by Seth Neiman, Paul R. Bonderson Jr., and Kumar Malavalli.
In 2017, Broadcom Limited acquired Brocade Communications Systems, Inc.
Initially focused on Fibre Channel SANs, Brocade expanded into IP networking before reverting focus strictly on storage networking
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Brocade’s Fibre Channel SAN solutions deliver the high-performance networking required for demanding workloads, while maintaining simplicity and reliability. These solutions encompass Fibre Channel directors, switches, and SAN controllers that are optimized for scale-out enterprise SANs.
Brocade offers high-performance, scalable IP networking solutions. Brocade's IP networking solutions provide advanced features including carrier-grade NAT, stateful firewalls, packet filtering, and VPNs, and are widely used in data center, cloud computing, and service provider networks.
Brocade's Application Delivery Controller (ADC) solutions provide advanced layer-7 load balancing and application delivery, allowing businesses to optimize their web application infrastructure for maximum performance and availability.
Brocade is a data and storage networking solutions company that provides businesses with innovative storage area networking (SAN) and routing technologies.
Brocade offers a range of products in areas such as application delivery, wireless networking, data center fabric, data center switching, campus networking, network security, routing, and software networking.
Brocade's competitors include Cisco Systems, Juniper Networks, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, and others.
Fibre Channel SAN is a high-performance storage area network solution offered by Brocade that is optimized for scale-out enterprise SANs.
Brocade's Application Delivery Controller (ADC) provides advanced layer-7 load balancing and application delivery to optimize web application infrastructure for maximum performance and availability.
