SAN JOSE, Calif., Sept. 22, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Brocade (NASDAQ:
BRCD) today announced the company has achieved leader status in the
IHS Markit Wireless LAN Infrastructure Vendor Scorecard - 2016 for
Ruckus Wireless' significant presence in the market and fast-paced
momentum in wireless LAN growth. Brocade acquired Ruckus Wireless
in May 2016, and Ruckus now operates
as a business unit within Brocade. Prior to the acquisition, Ruckus
was already the largest standalone vendor of WLAN
products.1
According to IHS, "Due to market consolidation, the WLAN vendor
landscape has bifurcated into end-to-end networking providers that
can address the whole range of enterprise networking requirements
and specialists that focus on a particular niche or new ways of
solving old problems. The leaders—Brocade, Cisco, and HPE Aruba—are
end-to-end networking providers that compete broadly in all
segments of the market, leveraging the completeness of their
portfolio and their installed bases."
"Brocade is honored to be recognized as a leader in the IHS
Markit WLAN Scorecard," said Dan
Rabinovitsj, chief operating officer, Ruckus Wireless
business unit at Brocade. "We continue to offer our customers
high-performing wireless technology, and the recognition by IHS
further validates the considerable steps we've taken this year in
the enterprise WLAN infrastructure market—a market that many
forecast will continue to experience growth due to the rise in
Internet traffic and next-gen connected devices. We look forward to
further supporting our customers' WLAN needs."
Brocade now offers a broad range of indoor and outdoor WLAN
access points with Ruckus BeamFlex™ technology, which delivers
strong performance and one of the industry's most comprehensive
choices of architectures—physical controller appliance, virtual
controller appliance, cloud and controller-less—built on the
ZoneDirector™ and SmartZone™ platforms. With the third-highest
market share of all WLAN vendors,2 Brocade continues to
offer strong support to its customers to deploy more agile network
architectures.
To read more about Brocade's leadership position in the IHS
Markit Wireless LAN Infrastructure Vendor Scorecard, download a
complimentary copy of the report.
About Ruckus Wireless
Ruckus Wireless, now part of
Brocade, delivers simply better wireless for approximately 70,000
enterprise, service provider, government and small business
customers worldwide. The company is focused on technology
innovation, partner ecosystems and customer service—yielding the
best possible wireless experience for the most challenging indoor
and outdoor environments. Its Smart Wi-Fi platform
delivers scalable, high-performance Wi-Fi with simplified control
and management for on-premise and cloud-based Wi-Fi deployments,
along with new services for secure on-boarding, policy management,
location services and analytics that enable new business
opportunities.
About Brocade
Brocade® (NASDAQ: BRCD)
networking solutions help the world's leading organizations turn
their networks into platforms for business innovation. With
solutions spanning public and private data centers to the network
edge, Brocade is leading the industry in its transition to the New
IP network infrastructures required for today's era of digital
business. (www.brocade.com)
© 2016 Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. All Rights
Reserved.
These products and features and their availability are
subject to change at the sole discretion of Brocade, and Brocade
shall have no liability for delay in the delivery or failure to
deliver any of the products or features described herein.
Ruckus, Ruckus Wireless, BeamFlex and ZoneFlex are trademarks
of Ruckus Wireless, Inc. in the United
States and other countries.
Brocade, the B-wing symbol, and MyBrocade are registered
trademarks of Brocade Communications Systems, Inc., in the United States and in other countries.
Other brands, product names, or service names mentioned of Brocade
Communications Systems, Inc. are listed at
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1 IHS Markit, "WLAN Infrastructure Vendor Scorecard – 2016,"
Sept. 19, 2016.
2 IHS Markit, "WLAN Infrastructure Vendor Scorecard –
2016," Sept. 19, 2016.
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