[February 26, 2007] BroadLight Promotes Eli Weitz to CTO After a Year of Market Dominance in GPON Processors Tweet MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. --(Business Wire)-- BroadLight, the leading supplier of GPON semiconductors and software, today announced the promotion of Eli Weitz to Chief Technology Officer (CTO.) Eli has been a key contributor on all of BroadLight's first pass silicon execution successes and has also brought invaluable expertise and knowledge to expand BroadLight's core technology into CPE network processing designs. "Eli's well-deserved promotion will enable BroadLight to further expand its family of network processors and residential gateways while also maintaining its focus on GPON systems," said Andy Vought, CEO of BroadLight. "In his new role as CTO, Eli will provide the technology vision to deliver the right products for the future and will continue to be responsible for all major technical decisions and project development activities." Prior to his promotion to CTO, Eli was VP of VLSI for BroadLight. He brings more than 20 years of experience of managing VLSI design and development in worldwide leading communication semiconductors companies. Before joining BroadLight, Eli was the director of VLSI of Infineon (Savan) in Israel, managing the development of semiconductor for VDSL, Ethernet switch and UWB. Before that, he was the director of VLSI for Globespan/Virata in Israel. Most of his experience was in Motorola semiconductor (Currently Freescale) where he was responsible for the development of the world's most successful communication IC family - the PowerQuicc. Eli holds a BSc (Cum Laude) and MSc degrees in computer engineering from the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology. About BroadLight BroadLight delivers the industry's only end-to-end solution (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. This end-to-end solution provides customers with a lower risk development cycle and enables them to significantly speed time-to-market. As a result, 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. BroadLight and the BroadLight logo are trademarks of BroadLight, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective holders. [ Back To TMCnet.com's Homepage ]