Founded in 1995 and headquartered in San Jose, California, Brocade Communications employs approximately 4600 employees worldwide.  Brocade operates in more than 160 countries.

In Fiscal Year, 2010, Brocade's revenue was $2.094 Billion (USD).  Brocade is a publically traded company; their Initial Public Offering (IPO) was in 1999 (NASDAQ: BRCD).

Brocade is a recognized leader in end-to-end networking solutions with a focus on LAN switching, wireless, security, application delivery, and metro and Internet core routing including:
Breakthrough Brocade VCS™ technology
First Ethernet fabric switch
More than 15,000 IP networking customers worldwide
Brocade solutions powering 90 percent of the world’s Internet Exchange Points (IXPs)
First Layer 3 switch
First Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) and first 10 GbE switch
First application delivery switch and first 10 GbE application delivery switch
First terabit architecture and first multi-terabit MPLS Internet core router
First security LAN switch and security traffic manager
First two billion packet-per-second switch and router families

Brocade offers Industry-leading partner ecosystem with multiple routes to market: OEM partners, global systems integrators, Value-Added Resellers (VARs), distributors, and direct sales.

Many of the world’s leading server and storage providers are Brocade OEM Partners.
Brocade has demonstrated compatibility with more than 800 leading network products.

Brocade is the industry leader in data center storage networking solutions with a focus on SAN switching and server connectivity. Today, Brocade solutions are used in 90 percent of Global 1000 data centers.
More than 10 million Brocade SAN switch ports installed
More than 200,000 Brocade SANs in production
More than 44,000 Brocade directors installed
More than 5000 FICON® directors installed
Hundreds of professional services consultants worldwide
More than $300 million invested in interoperability and scalability labs
324 patents issued worldwide and 328 patents pending

Caleidoscope is an authorized Brocade partner.