At the opening of its new Development Center in Bangalore, networking solutions firm Brocade announced it will invest $ 300 million in India over the next five years for supporting its new IP innovations. MarketWatch reports that this investment reinforces Brocade’s commitment to accelerating growth in one of the world’s fastest-growing economies, and will play an important role in the development of networking innovations based on the new IP architecture. The new facility will also work closely with solution partners across India enabling the company to achieve greater penetration in industry verticals such as service providers, media, banking and finance, education, and the public sector.
Brocade CEO Lloyd Carney said, “We believe India will be an early adopter of new IP technologies, and we are very excited to be in this next phase of Brocade’s growth in India.”
According to Gartner, the Indian data center infrastructure market, comprising server, storage, and networking equipment, will reach $2.03 billion in 2015, making India the second-largest market for data center infrastructure and the second-fastest-growing market in Asia Pacific.
As part of the Digital India program the Indian Government is investing $19 billion during the period 2014 – 2018 to build State Wide Area Networks (SWANs), new data centers in each state, smart cities, and a cloud-based platform to drive connectivity for all 1.3 billion citizens.
“The India market is going through a dramatic transformation with investments in private cloud, public cloud, as well as a network refresh due to the 10 and 40 Gigabit Ethernet adoption across the enterprise, government, and other sectors,” said Edgar Dias, regional director for Brocade India.
Last updated: December 26th, 2025
