BLADE Network Technologies (BLADE) is a market-leading supplier of Gigabit and 10G Ethernet I/O infrastructure solutions that reside in blade servers and "scale-out" server and storage racks. The company's customers include over half the Fortune 500 companies across 26 industry segments. BLADE boasts an installed base of over 230,000 network switches representing more than 5.4 million datacenter switch ports connecting more than 1.2 million servers and storage systems.