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Brocade to acquire Foundry Networks

Brocade Communications Systems Inc. said yesterday that it was paying $3 billion in cash and stock to acquire Foundry Networks Inc., a deal designed to challenge Cisco Systems Inc. Foundry makes routers and switches used to direct Internet traffic.



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