BroadLight |
 
“The Star team has been instrumental in building BroadLight from an initial start-up in 2000, to one of the world’s leading providers of GPON solutions today. They have always provided hands-on guidance and strategic direction to help manage our business, identify new market opportunities and plan for our next phase of growth. We look forward to continue receiving Star’s invaluable contributions in making BroadLight a big and successful company.” – Raanan Gewirtzman, CEO, BroadlightBroadLightBroadLight delivers end-to-end (E2E) solutions (from the customer premises to the central office) for equipment vendors designing ITU-T compliant passive optical network (PON) systems. The company’s completely integrated product line consists of standards based communication semiconductors and software solutions that enable its customers to deliver BPON and GPON equipment to carriers and services providers worldwide. BroadLight technology has been adopted by leading manufacturers who are currently providing equipment for the some of the world’s largest fiber PON roll-outs. STAR was a lead investor in Broadlight’s Series A funding round in October 2000. Other investors are Benchmark Capital, Siemens, Broadcom, Tellabs, Israel Seed Partners, and Delta Ventures. In May 2012, Broadlight was acquired by Broadcom for $225M. |