That’s one reason why he thinks Juniper would be the most logical acquirer of the Ruckus business, while the legacy IP networking business may be best suited for IBM.ĭaryanani also noted that a piecemeal process may make EPS accretion less attractive for bigger players such as Cisco and IBM.
The analyst pointed out that Brocade’s legacy (foundry) business is heavily exposed to public contracts, which may reduce the odds of the entire IP networking business being sold to Huawei or Lenovo.
“While we are unsure whether the IP networking business would be divided piecemeal, we see Brocade’s business being attractive from both a financial and strategic perspective,” the analyst added, highlighting Juniper, Cisco, IBM, ARRS, Huawei, Lenovo, Dell, Alcatel Lucent Enterprise as potential buyers.ĭaryanani suggested that most of these parties were likely part of the Ruckus sale process and may already be comfortable with the assets in play. Brocade (Foundry Networks) is a leading provider of high-performance enterprise and service provider switching, routing, security, and application traffic management solutions including edge and backbone Ethernet switches, Web and content-aware application switches, network-wide security solutions, wireless LAN and access points, wide area. “A less than US$1 billion valuation is possible for Ruckus with an IP networking sale by Avago,” he said in a repair. Provide a valid email/domain that was used for the device registration. The page will redirect to the Broadcom Assist Portal site.
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