Virgin Media is testing in Cambridgeshire, UK, an 8Gb/s cable service to a small subset of subscribers. (Currently, the trial supports eight households, but can extend to 50 over time).…
Extreme buys Brocade data centre switching assets direct
Extreme has announced that they have closed a deal direct with Brocade , rather than wait for the Broadcom acquisition. (Extreme Networks Completes Acquisition of Brocade's Data Center Networking Business). This…
Brocade and Broadcom delay merger until November 30
A year to the date of the original merger announcement Broadcom to buy Brocade for $5.9bn, both Brocade and Broadcom have announced a delay in their merger. The Committee on Foreign…
AT&T Welcomes Brocade Employees as It Closes Vyatta Acquisition
AT&T have completed their acquisition of the Vyatta assets from Brocade. Their press-release announces the deal as a way of AT&T continuing their network transformation. This is one of the…
SDxCentral: Arris Expects its Acquisition of Brocade assets to advance it’s growth
SDxCentral reports that Arris are expecting to grow from the Brocade IDX switch and Ruckus Wireless acquisition from Broadcom. I believe that this will almost certainly be the case.. The…
Broadcom/Brocade wireless – the Ruckus continues
So with the acquisition of Brocade by Broadcom coming to the point it may actually complete, we see that Broadcom is spinning out the elements of the business are further…