Broadcom's semiconductor company has approached the closure of the acquisition of Brocade Communications, a network equipment maker, after the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) approved the merger. In this case, the buyer had to agree to certain conditions of the department.

The FTC said that as a result of the purchase of Brocade, Broadcom obtained access to Cisco-owned confidential business information that "can be used to limit competition and restrain the development of innovation" in the global switch market. Broadcom delivers ASICs and Cisco, and Brocade.

Broadcom agreed that the unit, which acts as a Cisco supplier, will be placed separately, and the firewall will not allow the use of information received from Cisco for purposes other than shipments of this American corporation, reports CRN.

In November 2016, the semiconductor producer Broadcom announced the purchase of Brocade for 5.9 billion dollars and immediately announced the sale of the network business of the company being absorbed. 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 the series of switches SLX, VDX and MLX, technologies of software-configurable networks (SDN) and virtualization of network functions (NFV). Extreme Networks will pay $ 55 million over several years.

In June, Pulse Secure (formerly Juniper Networks, a manufacturer of telecommunications equipment), specializing in the development of technologies for protecting corporate networks, reported on the purchase of a business from Brocade, which is associated with so-called Application delivery controllers,. The financial component of this transaction was not disclosed.