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BROCADE
Official Website: http://www.brocade.com/index.page
Official about page: http://www.brocade.com/company/about-brocade/corporate-profile.page?
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Location: 1600 Technology Drive, San Jose, California, USA
Founded: August 1995
Business: Lawful Intercept
Contact
Phone: 1-408-333-4300
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Background

  • Publicly traded (NASDAQ: BRCD)

"Brocade leads the industry in providing comprehensive network solutions that help the world’s leading organizations transition smoothly to a virtualized world where applications and information reside anywhere.

As a result, Brocade facilitates strategic business objectives such as consolidation, network convergence, virtualization, and cloud computing. Today, Brocade solutions are used in over 90 percent of Global 1000 data centers as well as in enterprise LANs and the largest service provider networks. " (quoted from Brocade's website).

  • Acquisitions/Mergers
  • 2006: Brocade Announces Acquisition of NuView, Inc. Red Orbit

Products

  • DATA CENTER Brocade VCS Fabric Technology and NAS with NFS Validation Test NetApp/VMware vSphere 5.0 Red Hat Enterprise Linux This material outlines sample configurations and associated test results Brocade pdf
  • BROCADE MLX SERIES ROUTERS

Data Sheets

KEY FEATURES

  • Service provider-grade metro routers with IPv4/IPv6/MPLS/Multi-VRF enabled 4-, 8-, 16-, and 32-slot systems for maximum deployment versatility.
  • Up to 4.8 billion packets per second routing performance with non-blocking 6.4 Tbps data capacity. Ideal for demanding, high-density environments:

• 32 100 GbE ports per system

• 256 10 GbE and 1536 1 GbE ports per system

• 64 OC-192/256 OC-48 ports per system

  • Advanced and scalable Metro Ethernet Layer 2 services:

• Super aggregated VLANs (QinQ)

• Comprehensive set of Layer 2 control protocols: MRP, VSRP, RSTP, MSTP

• IEEE 802.1ad Provider Bridges

• Provider Backbone Bridging

• Extended statistics, including per-port per-VLAN per priority counters for VPLS and VLL endpoints

  • MEF 9 and MEF 14 certification for Carrier Ethernet services
  • Industry-leading 640 Gbps link aggregation capability for aggregating up to 64 10 GbE/OC-192 links in provider backbones
  • Support for fate sharing of link groups and bypass LSPs for increased resiliency
  • Wire-speed, dual-stack IPv4/IPv6 routing
    • Wire-speed Provider Edge (PE) and Provider core (P) Label Switching Routers

Industry-leading performance for MPLS services, providing several service choices: IPv6 over MPLS (6PE), MPLS over GRE, Virtual Leased Line (VLL), Virtual Private LAN Service (VPLS), BGP/MPLSVPN, Multi-VRF, and routing over VPLS

    • High-performance, robust routing via Brocade Direct Routing (BDR) for complete, distributed programming of the Forwarding Information Base (FIB) in hardware

Full suite of unicast and multicast IPv4 and IPv6 routing protocols:

• Supported IPv4 protocols include RIP, OSPF, BGP-4, IS-IS, PIM-DM, PIM-SM/SSM, IGMP, BGP-MP for multicast, MSDP, and Anycast RP

• Supported IPv6 protocols include RIPng, OSPFv3, IS-IS for IPv6, BGP-MP for IPv6 (BGP4+), PIM-SM/SSM, MLD, VRRPv6, and IPv6 Non-Stop Routing (NSR)

    • Comprehensive MPLS signaling and path calculation algorithms for both traffic-engineered and non-traffic-engineered applications:

• OSPF-TE, IS-IS-TE, RSVP-TE, CSPF, LDP over RSVP • MPLS FRR (detour, bypass) and hot standby paths for traffic protection • LDP

    • Secure Multi-VRF routing to support Virtual Routing applications over non-MPLS backbones; supports both IPv4 and IPv6 Multi-VRFs

Industry-leading scalability up to:*

• 10 million BGP routes • 1 million IPv4 routes in hardware (FIB) • 240,000 IPv6 routes in hardware (FIB) • 2000 BGP peers per system • 2000 BGP/MPLS VPNs and up to 1 million VPN routes • 48,000 VLLs per system • 16,000 VPLS instances and up to 1 million VPLS MAC addresses • 64,000 RSVP-TE LSPs • 4094 VLANs and up to 2 million MAC addresses • 8-path Equal Cost MultiPath (ECMP)


    • Advanced QoS:

• Hierarchical Quality of Service (H-QoS) for 8.10 GbE (M and X) modules

• Inbound and outbound two-rate three-color traffic policers with accounting

• Eight distinct priority levels

• WRED support for congestion management and precedence dropping (tunable via configuration)

• Support for hybrid queue servicing disciplines: Mixed, Strict Priority, and Weighted Fair Queuing


    • Comprehensive hardware-based security and policies:

• Layer 2/3 ACLs (both inbound and outbound) • Granular ACL accounting (both inbound and outbound) • Hardware-based packet filtering • Hardware-based Policy-Based Routing (PBR) • Unicast Reverse Path Forwarding (uRPF • Receive ACLs • Extensive sFlow Layer 2-7 traffic monitoring for IPv4, IPv6, and MPLS services


Combined Carrier Ethernet and powerful Packet over SONET/SDH:

• MEF 9 and MEF 14 certification for Carrier Ethernet services • Flexible set of POS interfaces with carrier-class timing offering internal stratum 3, loop, line, and BITS timing support


  • Software-Defined Networking (SDN):

• Support for OpenFlow v1.0

  • Scalability limits depend on configured system parameters, NetiIron XMR module types, licenses, system profile selected, and routing database complexity.

Countries using products

Reports

  • 3.6.12: "Brocade promises technology mix-up - Network equipment maker's upcoming technology will let managers mix switches in a stack, which can be managed from a single console"IT Business

Tech & Business Partners

  • NetApp
  • VMware

People Responsible

Board of Directors

    • David L. House, Chairman of Brocade
  • Present - 2004: David L. House has served as a director since 2004 and as the Chairman of our Board of Directors since December 2005. From January 2005 through December 2005, he served as Executive Chairman of the Board.
  • January 2001 - April 2003: Mr. House served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Allegro Networks, a privately held provider of voice data and broadband services.
  • August 1998 - August 1999: President of Nortel Networks Corp. Mr. House joined Nortel Networks Corp. when it was merged with Bay Networks, Inc.
  • October 1996 - August 1998: Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer of Bay Networks, Inc.
  • Mr. House served in senior management positions at Intel Corporation for 23 years.

Mr. House received a B.S.E.E. degree from Michigan Technological University and an M.S.E.E. degree from Northeastern University of Boston.


    • Michael Klayko, CEO, Brocade
  • Present - January 2005: Chief Executive Officer and a member of the Brocade Board of Directors. As CEO, he is responsible for the company's vision, strategic direction, and operational management. Klayko has more than 30 years of experience in the storage, computer, and telecommunications industries.
  • Presently: Serves on the Boards of PMC-Sierra, Inc. and the Silicon Valley Leadership Group.
  • 2005 - 2003: He was Vice President of Worldwide Sales at Brocade with responsibility for global sales activity and the development of programs designed to increase sales force effectiveness and support key partner relationships. He also served as the Vice President of Marketing and Support and Vice President of OEM Sales. Klayko joined Brocade in January 2003, following the acquisition of Rhapsody Networks for which he served as CEO and President.
  • 2003 - ? : Prior to working at Rhapsody Networks, Klayko was Executive Vice President at McData, where he managed the company's internal operations and drove business development and marketing strategies. He also held positions at EMC, HP, and IBM after beginning his career at Docutel and TRW.

Klayko has a Bachelors of Electronic Engineering Technology from the Ohio Institute of Technology.


    • Judy Bruner

Has served as a Brocade director since January 2009.

  • Present - 2004: Executive Vice President, Administration and Chief Financial Officer, SanDisk Corporationa supplier of flash storage products, since June 2004.
  • 2004 - 1999: Ms. Bruner served as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Palm, Inc., a provider of handheld computing and communications solutions.
  • Prior to 1999: Ms. Bruner held financial management positions with 3Com Corporation, Ridge Computers and Hewlett-Packard Company.

Ms. Bruner holds a B.A. degree in economics from the University of California, Los Angeles and an M.B.A. degree from Santa Clara University.


    • Dr. Renato Renny DiPentima

Has been a Brocade director since February 2007 when he was appointed to the Board in connection with Brocade's acquisition of McDATA Corporation.

  • 2007 - 1995: Dr. DiPentima is the retired President and Chief Executive Officer of SRA International, a provider of technology and strategic consulting services and solutions, where he served from January 2005 until March 2007. From November 2003 to January 2005, he served as SRA's President and Chief Operating Officer. Prior to that, Dr. DiPentima served as Senior Vice President and President of SRA's consulting and systems integration division since the division's formation in January 2001. From July 1997 to January 2001, he served as President of SRA's government sector, overseeing government business, projects, and contracts. From July 1995 to July 1997, Dr. DiPentima served as Vice President and as SRA's Chief Information Officer.
  • 1990 - 1995: Dr. DiPentima held several senior management positions in the U.S. federal government, most recently serving as deputy commissioner for systems at the Social Security Administration.
  • Dr. DiPentima is also currently serving on several governmental and corporate advisory boards. (?)

Dr. DiPentima received a B.A. degree from New York University, an M.A. degree from George Washington University and a Ph.D. degree from the University of Maryland. He has also completed the program for Senior Managers at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.


    • Alan L. Earhart

Has served as a Brocade director since February 2009.

  • Presently: Mr. Earhart also serves on the board of directors of Macrovision Solutions Corporation, Monolithic Power Systems, Inc. and Network Appliance, Inc.
  • 2008 - 2003: Mr. Earhart served as a member of the Board of Directors of Foundry Networks, Inc. from August 2003 until December 2008 when Foundry was acquired by Brocade.
  • 2001-1970: Mr. Earhart held a variety of positions with Coopers & Lybrand and its successor entity, Pricewaterhouse-Coopers LLP, an accounting and consulting firm, including most recently as the Managing Partner for Pricewaterhouse-Coopers' Silicon Valley California office. Mr. Earhart has been a retired partner of Pricewaterhouse-Coopers LLP since 2001.

Mr. Earhart holds a B.S. degree in accounting from the University of Oregon.


    • John W. Gerdelman

Has served as director since 2007, when he was appointed to the Board in connection with Brocade's acquisition of McDATA Corporation. Mr. Gerdelman serves on Brocade's Audit and Corporate Development Committees.

  • Presently: serves as Managing Partner of River2 providing consulting services across the technology sector.
  • September 2011 - March 2010: He served as the President of Long Lines, an innovative telecommunications provider serving business and residential customers in Northwest Iowa that was a startup call center company scquired by MCI.
  • Chairman of Intelliden Corporation, a company which he co-founded providing software solutions that enable networks to operate more intelligently by automating network change management and enforcing business policy in network operations. It was sold to IBM in April 2010.
  • April 2002 - December 2003: Mr. Gerdelman was the Chief Executive Officer for Metromedia Fibre Networks, now Abovenet, during its bankruptcy reorganization.
  • January 2000 - March 2000: Mr. Gerdelman worked with several new ventures as Managing Member of Mortonsgroup LLC.
  • April 1999 - December 1999: He served as the President and CEO of USA.NET.
  • 1986 - 1999: Mr. Gerdelman held various positions with MCI Communications Corporation in Sales, Marketing, Sales Operations, Network Operations and Information Technology, including President of the Network and Information Technology Division and served as CEO of Long Lines Limited, a startup call center company acquired by MCI.
  • Before joining MCI, Mr. Gerdelman was with Baxter Travenol Corporation in Sales Operations and served in the U.S. Navy as a Naval Aviator.

He received his B.S. degree in chemistry from the College of William and Mary, where he now serves as chair of the Real Estate Foundation.


    • Glenn Jones

Has served as director since 2006.

  • Mr. Jones served as Chief Financial Officer of Cirrus Logic, Inc. as well as Chief Financial Officer of PMC-Sierra, Inc.
  • Prior to these public company roles, he was Chief Financial Officer for Metaphor Computer Systems, Inc. and served as General Manager of Metaphor's computer systems business which was acquired by IBM Corporation.
  • He also was the founding Chief Financial Officer and Vice President of Operations for Gain Computer Systems, which was acquired by Sybase Corp.

He currently is a business consultant to technology companies.

Mr. Jones, a CPA, holds a B.S. in Accounting from the University of Illinois and an M.B.A. from Golden Gate University. Mr. Jones serves on Brocade's Audit Committee.


    • L. William Krause

Has served as a Director of Brocade since 2004.

  • Present: Serves as director of Coherent, Inc., a leading supplier of Photonic-based systems, Core-Mark Holdings, Inc., a distributor of packaged consumer goods, and Sybase, Inc., a leader in enterprise and mobile software to manage, analyze and mobilize information.
  • Present - 1991: President of LWK Ventures, a private investment firm.
  • 2006 - 2002: Served as Chairman of the Board and as Chief Executive Officer of Caspian Networks, Inc., an IP networking systems provider.
  • September 2001 - February 2002: Chairman and CEO of Exodus Communications, Inc. which he guided through Chapter 11 Bankruptcy to a sale of assets.
  • 1981 - 1993: President and CEO of 3Com Corporation, a global data networking company, from 1981 to 1990, and as its Chairman from 1987 to 1993 when he retired.

Mr. Krause holds a B.S. degree in electrical engineering and received an honorary Doctorate of Science from The Citadel.


    • Sanjay Vaswani

Has served as a director of Brocade since April 2004.

  • Present - 1990: Managing partner of the Center for Corporate Innovation, Inc., a professional services firm. In addition, Mr. Vaswani serves as a director of Blue Star Infotech Ltd., an Indian publicly traded software services firm.
  • 1987 - 1990 he was with McKinsey & Company.
  • Prior to that, Mr. Vaswani was employed by Intel Corporation.

Mr. Vaswani earned a B.A. degree from the University of Texas at Austin and an M.B.A. degree from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania.

Management Team

Investors

Major Shareholders

Other Info

Brocade Solutions for Government Agencies

http://www.brocade.com/partnerships/distributors-resellers/Federal-Partners/federal-government-team.page

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