David Meyer Service Provider Business CTO and Chief Scientist, Brocade

Brocade Communications Systems, Inc.
announced the appointment of networking industry visionary David Meyer
to the position of Service Provider business CTO and chief scientist.

An authority on software-defined networking (SDN), Internet routing and
OpenFlow technologies, he will play a role in the shaping of Brocade’s
cloud networking, advanced routing and application delivery strategy.

Meyer will report to Ken Cheng, VP and GM of the Routing, Application Delivery and Software Networking Group.

"David’s a highly respected industry veteran with decades of experience within the networking space," said Cheng. "His
leadership within various industry associations and Internet standards
bodies is a testament to his ability to understand at a macro level the
implications of the development and standardization of new and emerging
technologies that are shaping the future direction of the networking
industry."

In this new role, Meyer will be responsible for
working with tier-1 service providers, cloud hosting providers and Web
2.0 content providers worldwide. As an expert advisor, he will help
customers develop cloud-optimized network architectures to support
next-generation services and applications. In addition, he will engage
in industry-wide discussions on seminal networking issues and evangelize
Brocade’s solutions in the areas of Ethernet fabrics, advanced routing
and SDN.

With over three decades of networking industry
experience, Meyer has been an agent of change and an advocate of an
evolutionary, rather than revolutionary, approach to IT transformation. A
recognized thought-leader and a frequent speaker at industry events, he
is known for his innovative work in defining the future direction of
Internet technologies. Prior to joining Brocade, Meyer held various
positions at Cisco Systems, most recently as a Distinguished Engineer
focused on examining the growing role of OpenFlow and SDN within the
enterprise and service provider markets.

Prior to joining Cisco, he served as senior scientist, chief technologist and director of IP Technology Development at Sprint.
He is also director of the Advanced Network Technology Center at the
University of Oregon. Prior to working at Sprint, he worked at Cisco,
where he was involved in software development, working both on multicast
and BGP. One of his major projects at the University of Oregon is
routeviews.

Meyer is a participant and influential force within a
number of industry associations, including the Internet Engineering
Task Force (IETF), the North American Network Operators’ Group (NANOG)
and the Open Networking Foundation (ONF). Throughout his career, he has
held a number of positions within these groups and currently serves as
the chair of IETF’s Domain Name Server Operations and MBONE Deployment
Working Group, as well as the co-chair of the Forwarding Abstractions
Group at ONF. He is often credited as being an expert in networking
technology who has made numerous contributions that have shaped the
evolution of the Internet.

"The networking industry is
undergoing an evolutionary period unlike any we’ve recently seen. The
companies that are going to emerge victorious are those with the right
combination of networking expertise, technology vision and business
smarts," said Meyer. "With its heritage for driving continued
innovation, I believe that Brocade is well positioned to achieve growth
within the hotly contested service provider networking market."