The manufacturer of network equipment Brocade Communications Systems, which is in the process of joining the semiconductor company Broadcom, continues to sell assets.

Pulse Secure (formerly Juniper Networks, a manufacturer of telecommunications equipment), specializing in the development of technologies for the protection of corporate networks, announced the purchase of a business from Brocade that is associated with so-called Application delivery controllers,. These solutions, which typically reside in the data center between the firewall and the application servers, are used to accelerate application and load balancing between servers, as well as to manage traffic, SSL offloading, and Web application firewall.

The financial component of the transaction between Pulse Secure and Brocade is not disclosed. It is known that the agreement covers all assets associated with the said business, including research resources, contracts for product support and technical customer support.

Pulse Secure CEO Sudhakar Ramakrishna noted that this acquisition will enable the company to continue the successful development of Secure Access Suite. In particular, Brocade will help expand the capabilities of Pulse Secure in terms of access to hybrid clouds, help control access to applications at the local level, in the cloud and shops, he added..

In November 2016, the semiconductor producer Broadcom announced the purchase of Brocade for 5.9 billion dollars and immediately announced the sale of network business absorbed by the company. Broadcom retained only those network assets that are associated with Brocade Fiber Channel SAN switches.

In February 2017, it was announced the sale of Ruckus Wireless (part of Brocade's network division) to Arris for $ 800 million. Later, the manufacturer of switches and routers Extreme Networks acquired from Brocade all assets related to network equipment for data centers, as well as to analytical tools. In particular, we are talking about a series of switches SLX, VDX and MLX, technologies for software-configurable networks (SDN) and virtualization of network functions (NFV). Extreme Networks will pay $ 55 million over several years.