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Kumar Malavalli, Cofounder, Brocade Communications: Page 5 of 9

Byte and Switch: Would you say Brocade is an innovative company?

Malavalli: Yes, of course.

Byte and Switch: Why?

Malavalli: Creating all the ingredients to manage an intelligent distributed fabric, which is what Brocade has in Fabric OS, takes constant innovation, and this is going on at the company all the time.

Byte and Switch: Brocade doesn't like to talk about new technologies that might threaten its installed base -- iSCSI is a good example. During a Salomon Smith Barney technology conference last September, Brocade chairman and CEO Greg Reyes said:

    "Our installed base will be so massive by the time IP or InfiniBand becomes a reality, that no company will be in a position to compete with us on infrastructure or applications." (See Brocade CEO in Tick-Top Form.)