BroadLight

BroadLight.

Industry	Semiconductors
Founded	June 2000
Headquarters	Herzeliya, Israel
Key people	Raanan Gewirtzman, Chief Executive Officer Chee Kwan, VP Sales Didi Ivancovsky, Founder, VP Carriers Strategy Doron Tal, VP Business Development & Marketing Dror Heldenberg, CFO Eli Weitz, CTO Gal Sitton, VP Systems Igor Elkanovich, VP VLSI
Products	Fiber Access & Embedded Processors
Number of employees	140
Website	www.broadlight.com

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.

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

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.