Brocade Moving to 100 GbE?

BANGALORE, INDIA: Networking vendor Brocade is often thought of as just being a datacenter player -- a perception that company executives are keen to change.

Brocade also has enterprise campus as well as service provider offerings competing against the big boys of carrier networking like Cisco Juniper and Alcatel-Lucent.

Now it's banking on adoption of next-generation Ethernet bandwidth to help propel it even further in those areas. InternetNews.com has learned that Brocade is planning to provide 100 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) as part of its portfolio, most likely beginning in 2010.

Brocade has not yet officially announced its 100 GbE module availability, but Nadeem Zahid, senior product marketing manager at Brocade, said he was optimistic that it would be available in 2010.

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Brocade Moving to 100 GbE?