


Brocade was incorporated on May 14, 1998, in Delaware. Neiman became the first CEO of the company. Bonderson (a former executive from Intel Corporation and Sun). Broadcom has since redomesticated to the United States and is now known as Broadcom Inc.īrocade was founded in August 1995, by Seth Neiman (a venture capitalist, a former executive from Sun Microsystems and a professional auto racer), Kumar Malavalli (a co-author of the Fibre Channel specification) and Paul R.

As part of the acquisition, Broadcom divested all of the IP networking hardware and software-defined networking assets. On November 2, 2016, Singapore-based chip maker Broadcom Limited announced it was buying Brocade for about $5.5 billion. Offerings included routers and network switches for data center, campus and carrier environments, IP storage network fabrics Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) and software-defined networking (SDN) markets such as a commercial edition of the OpenDaylight Project controller and network management software that spans physical and virtual devices. Prior to the acquisition, the company expanded into adjacent markets including a wide range of IP/ Ethernet hardware and software products. The company is known for its Fibre Channel storage networking products and technology. Fibre Channel directors and switches SAN extension embedded blade server switches optical transceivers SAN management software īrocade is an American technology company specializing in storage networking products, now a subsidiary of Broadcom Inc.
