Brocade Communications Systems
| Company type | Subsidiary |
|---|---|
| Industry | Networking Hardware and Software |
| Founded | 1995 |
| Headquarters | , United States |
Key people | Hock Tan (Broadcom CEO) |
| Products | Fibre Channel directors and switches; SAN extension; embedded blade server switches; optical transceivers; SAN management software; |
| Parent | Broadcom Inc. |
| Website | Brocade Products |
Brocade Communications Systems, Inc., was an American technology company specializing in storage networking products, now a subsidiary of Broadcom Inc. The company is known for its Fibre Channel storage networking products and technology. Prior to the acquisition, the company expanded into adjacent markets including a wide range of IP/Ethernet hardware and software products. 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.
On November 2, 2016, Singapore-based chip maker Broadcom Limited announced it was buying Brocade for about $5.5 billion. As part of the acquisition, Broadcom divested all of the IP networking hardware and software-defined networking assets. Broadcom has since re-domesticated to the United States and is now known as Broadcom Inc.