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Brocade LEAP Center Lab


 
LEAP Centers offer a flexible lab environment where the reseller and the end-user can come together for hands-on demos and training to better evaluate selected solutions, providing a significant value to those considering complex solutions.

We know it is challenging to evaluate solutions, so if you are upgrading your customer's data center and/or network, we'll show you early in the decision process the benefits your customers can achieve by deploying Brocade solutions.
 

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Make the LEAP Center part of your Sales Process
By making the LEAP Center part of the sales process, you can realize better win rates and shorter sales cycles through effective pre-design, planning, and solution evaluations.

Gain first-hand experience for yourself, experience live demos of Brocade products and solutions in a multi-vendor environment and gain a deeper understanding of how they fit into your solution offerings. You can also experience a wide-array of complementary solutions, including offerings from leading vendors as well as virtualized applications such as VMware.

LEAP labs are also available remotely; anywhere you can launch a browser.
 
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The Brocade Lab
The Brocade solutions featured in the in the LEAP Center help you reduce time-to-revenue, while overcoming the unique challenges faced in today’s challenging business environment, including:
 
  Understanding new technologies
  Longer sales cycles
  More complex technology evaluations
  Deeper investments required for both demo infrastructures and technical certifications
   
Brocade Data Center Technologies include:
  Brocade FCX, FWS, ICX & VDX series of switches
  Brocade TurboIron & FastIron switches
  Brocade ADX server load-balancing
  Brocade RFS wireless solution
  Brocade 6510 Fiber-Channel switching
  Brocade RX-4 and MLX-4 High-performance routing
  SAN Storage Networking (EMC)
  APC (Power, KVM & Racks)


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How can Brocade resellers benefit from using the LEAP Center?
  The LEAP Brocade Lab provides you with a showcase for Brocade’s industry-leading data center switching, converged networking, routing, virtualization, WLAN, and enterprise cloud and storage capabilities.
  You and your customers can view demonstrations of how Brocade improves 'real world' application benchmarks, such as Data Base, Mail, Multimedia, and Unified Communications.
  We can provide you with a 'proof of concept' for the coexistence with and migration from competitive products.
  You may elect to participate in sales training focused on how to generate leads, provide product demonstrations, create and deliver proposals, and get answers to frequently asked questions about Brocade solutions.

Our experienced team is here to help you and will assist in coordinating your LEAP experience. To get more information, arrange hands-on or remote demonstration labs, or other services please contact your local office or schedule an appointment with one of our certified LEAP Center Specialists to arrange a demonstration lab, training, or design validation session.

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Podcasts & Videos
Westcon Adds Brocade Solutions To LEAP Centers
Duration: 3:40 min.

The new Brocade Lab at the Westcon Group LEAP Center (Learn, Experience, Architect, Plan) incorporates state-of-the-art Ethernet and Fibre Channel technology and equipment from Brocade, providing a flexible lab environment where resellers and end user customers can meet to bridge the gap between presentation and real-world demonstrations.

Whether you're planning a virtualized cloud enabled data center strategy, or are already implementing one see how the Brocade Lab at the LEAP Center provides solutions that drive greater agility and efficiencies for customers deploying private cloud (Cloud Enabled Enterprise Data Centers) environments.
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Visit The Westcon Group LEAP Center to See Brocade Solutions in Action
Bill Hurley, Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of Westcon Group
Duration: 11:10 min.

Please join Bill Hurley, Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of Westcon Group, as he discusses the addition of Brocade products and solutions to the LEAP Center in Lafayette, Colorado.
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Overview on the LEAP Strategy
Dean Douglas, President & CEO, Westcon Group
Duration: 01:30 min.

The LEAP Center (Learn, Experience, Architect, Plan) fulfills our mission of helping our resellers increase and demonstrate their value by emphasizing solution evaluation, pre-design and planning to provide the optimal solutions to meet end-users needs.
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Westcon Group Teams with Brocade to Support Customers' Transition to Next-Generation Data
William Corbin, Executive Vice President, Global Vendor Relationships for Westcon Group
Duration: 02:17 min.

Watch as William Corbin, Executive Vice President, Global Vendor Relationships for Westcon Group, talks about this exciting announcement that Westcon now has the ability to distribute both Brocade networking and SAN offerings in its portfolio.
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Westcon Highlights Market Activities and Brocade Partnership
Bill Hurley, VP and CTO, Westcon Group
Duration: 03:21 min.

Bill Hurley, Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at Westcon Group, discusses key business trends, how Brocade is addressing these trends, and what they mean for partners.
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Welcome to the Westcon Group LEAP Center
Duration: 03:42 min

The LEAP Center (Learn, Experience, Architect, Plan) fulfills our mission of helping our resellers increase and demonstrate their value by emphasizing solution evaluation, pre-design and planning to provide the optimal solutions to meet end-users needs.
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Contact

Christine Lawrence

Product Manager

303-566-2634

christine.lawrence@westcon.com

Updated May 6, 2012