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Say goodbye to Brocade as an independent company. It has just published its last quarterly results before being gobbled up and dismembered by Broadcom. Revenues of $553m were up 6 per cent year-over-year and down 5 per cent quarter-over-quarter. Brocade_revenues_to_Q2fy2017 Brocade said SAN product revenue of $282m was down …

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  1. John Smith 19 Gold badge
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    it seems only yesterday I saw them on a box of FiberChannel

    How time flies.

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    1. Wensleydale Cheese
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      Re: it seems only yesterday I saw them on a box of FiberChannel

      I first came across Brocade on a Fibre Channel course in 2001.

      Oddly enough the moniker always used the British spelling of Fibre, which made a pleasant change. Dunno why or how though.

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      1. Anonymous Coward
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        Re: it seems only yesterday I saw them on a box of FiberChannel

        Fibre-Channel is the correct spelling of the technology, regardless of which branch of English you subscribe to.

        Fiber is the medium.

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibre_Channel

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