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Amid mounting speculation that storage networking firm Brocade is up for sale, it has announced a new wireless Lan strategy, replacing Meru with Motorola as its strategic supplier. The two firms have signed a five-year agreement, replacing the three-year deal with start-up enterprise Wi-Fi specialist Meru, which is due to expire at the end of this year. Brocade inherited that tie-up when it acquired Foundry Networks.

Brocade will continue to support the Meru products for five years, said Ken Cheng, general manager of the firm's IP products division. As with that agreement, the Motorola alliance goes beyond a simple OEM deal. Instead, the partners will work together on integration of their respective ranges, particularly with an eye to wired/wireless convergence to support key areas of enterprise interest such as unified communications and cloud computing.

Under the Brocade Mobility 802.11 WLan badge, the firm will offer a range of switches and two- or three-radio 802.11n access points. It includes Motorola's 802.11a/b/g/n APs and wireless switches/controllers, which will be named as the Mobility 300 Dependent Access Point, Mobility 5181 Outdoor Access Point, Mobility 7131 Adaptive Access Point, Mobility RFS6000 Controller, Mobility RFS7000 Controller, and Mobility AirDefense Enterprise Wireless Intrusion Prevention System.

Brocade is said to be an acquisition target for Juniper, Hewlett Packard and possibly Cisco.

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