Founded June 2000 Number of employees 140 | Website www.broadlight.com | |
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Key people Raanan Gewirtzman, Chief Executive OfficerChee Kwan, VP SalesDidi Ivancovsky, Founder, VP Carriers StrategyDoron Tal, VP Business Development & MarketingDror Heldenberg, CFOEli Weitz, CTOGal Sitton, VP SystemsIgor Elkanovich, VP VLSI Products Fiber Access & Embedded Processors | ||
BroadLight is a fabless semiconductor company which designs, manufactures and markets Fiber Access and embedded processors System-on-a-chip (SoC). Founded in 2000 by Ran Dror, David Levi, Haim Ben Amram, Didi Ivancovsky and Raanan Ivry, it is headquartered in Herzeliya, Israel with sales offices in the United States, China, Taiwan and Korea. BroadLight operates in the broadband telecommunication operators’ market with products for fiber broadband, fixed and mobile networks for homes and carriers.
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Market
BroadLight predicted that the fiber-to-the-home market would outpace xDSL copper broadband installations and that the market would require and benefit from highly integrated Fiber Access semiconductor SoC. The company was recognized to achieve significant market share and an established top-tier customer position
Products
BroadLight's products include GPON Central office processors, integrated GPON Customer-premises equipment and Ethernet Gateway processors which are utilized in Fiber to the home (FTTx), and Ethernet CPEs.
BroadLight's most notable innovations are the introduction of the separated control and data processing planes and the integration of a network processor in its integrated fiber access SoC. The integration of the network processor enables flexibility via a programmable networking engine and allows in-field adoptions to evolving operator service models.
Intellectual Property
Since 2004 BroadLight has been awareded multiple patents in the area of fiber access and CPE network processing.
Acquisition by Broadcom
On April 2012 Broadcom Corporation acquired BroadLight for $230M in a cash transaction.
Company structure
The company was venture capital funded by Azure Capital Partners, Benchmark Capital, Delta Ventures, Israel Seed Partners, Motorola Ventures, Star Ventures and Cipio Partners. The Chairman of the Board of Directors is Anthony T. Maher