'Our strategic vision has been closely aligned with Extreme Networks' vision throughout this process,' said Nabil Bukhari, Vice President, Data Center, formerly of Brocade and now with Extreme Networks. The acquisition enhances Extreme's data center solutions used by enterprises and service providers across industries such as education, hospitality, healthcare, retail, transportation and logistics, manufacturing and government. With the close of this acquisition, Extreme acquires customer relationships, personnel and technology assets from Brocade including the SLX, VDX, MLX, CES, CER, Workflow Composer, Automation Suites, and certain other data center related products. Today's announcement is not only a significant milestone for our growth strategy, but it also allows us to assist more customers around the globe with end-to-end software-driven solutions to drive their digital transformation initiatives.' 'Through a series of synergistic acquisitions, Extreme is now a top player in the enterprise networking industry and expects to generate over $1 billion in annual revenues. 'This is an exciting day for Extreme as we have now significantly strengthened our position in the expanding high-end data center market with the industry leading solution for enterprise customers,' said Ed Meyercord, President and CEO of Extreme Networks.

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