BroadLight

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 offices in the United States, China, Taiwan and Korea.

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

Intellectual Property
Since 2004 BroadLight has been awarded multiple patents in the area of fiber access and CPE network processing.

Acquisition by Broadcom
In April 2012 Broadcom Corporation acquired BroadLight for $230M in a cash transaction.