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Market share implications of Extreme Networks acquisitions

Extreme Networks has been very busy announcing acquisitions lately.  Yesterday, it announced plans to acquire Brocade’s Data Center switch business and on March 7, it announced plans to acquire Avaya’s switch business.  Additionally, it completed its acquisition of the Zebra Wireless LAN business just last October 2016. When the two switch… Read More »Market share implications of Extreme Networks acquisitions

OCP Observations

Alan Weckel Technology Analyst ​It was great to catch up with old friends and make new friends at OCP this year.  The show was highly successful with attendance at the Facebook and Microsoft booths so large that it was difficult to move around.  On the switch side, most of the… Read More »OCP Observations

UPdate on the ericsson / Cisco partnership – mobile world congress 2017

Ericsson and Cisco representatives provided an upbeat presentation about the corporate partnership, offered some customer success metrics and discussed some new initiatives. The teams held back from providing concrete measures of progress such as revenues. Our judgement is that since each is continuing to make joint offerings, the relationship is… Read More »UPdate on the ericsson / Cisco partnership – mobile world congress 2017

introducing 650 group

We are pleased to introduce our new company, 650 Group, a company that provides market intelligence research.   Why did you call the company 650 Group?  We chose the name of the company to reflect where we are physically located, in the 650 telephone area code, in the heart of… Read More »introducing 650 group