
Here's a question: did Broadcom get a 50 percent discount for acquiring a company that already had “Broad” in the name. Hard to say at this point, but regardless of semantics, the aforesaid company has snapped up BroadLight in a bid to extend its fiber access portfolio. In lay terms, it's hoping to use BroadLight's inroads to roll out next-gen fiber networks across the globe — perhaps even through the arctic.
2DayBlog.com, Broadcom extends fiber reach with BroadLight acquisition, intros new location architecture