Tuesday, October 06, 2009

What has changed for Brocade?

For sale: Cisco data center rival Brocade; Nortel could offload Metro Ethernet unit to Ciena
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What has changed for Brocade?

The news that data center networking vendor Brocade is shopping itself around is startling, given where the company was just a little over a year ago. Read full story

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