BroadLight, a supplier of GPON semiconductors and software, closed a $12 million series E financing round led by Benchmark Capital.
BroadLight’s portfolio includes both CPE and network PON solutions for BPON and GPON equipment.
Benchmark joins BroadLight’s premier list of investors which includes Azure Capital Partners, Broadcom, Cipio Partners, Delta Ventures, Israel Seed Partners, Motorola Ventures, Star Ventures and Tellabs.
http://www.broadlight.com
In June 2007, BroadLight unveiled its BL2347 chip targeted at lowering the cost of residential ONTs. The new device eliminates at least two bill of material (B.O.M.) components common on many ONTs. Key features include embedded VoIP DSP for 4 concurrent ports, 3-way calling and T.38 fax; embedded 4-port fast Ethernet switch; gigabit Ethernet port with 1 Gbps bridging throughput all packet size; and TU-T G.984 compliancy.
BroadLight is headed by Andy Vought, who previously served in the Office of the President of GlobespanVirata following the 2001 merger of Virata with Globespan.
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You just read about Broadcom. One of the companies whose work it now carries:
Dune Networks built Carrier-class switch fabric silicon. What became of it?
Dune Networks brought Carrier-class switch fabric silicon to Semiconductor. That work was distinctive enough to lead to its acquisition by Broadcom for US$178M. The standalone name now passes into the archive — but the team and technology continue inside Broadcom today. One of 430 names here whose work outlived the company.
You just read about GPON. Here is what it replaced:
APON / BPON served 1998–2000. What ultimately replaced it?
APON / BPON early passive optical networks: one fiber from the central office fanned out through unpowered splitters to homes, sharing ATM-cell (APON) or broadband (BPON) capacity by time-division. Its job passed to GPON — but the problem it solved, and the ideas it proved, live on in what replaced it. The standard rests here in the archive. One of 198 technologies here that opened a door and then held it for the next.
