SAN DIEGO, Feb. 3, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Building on the growing deployment of MoCA enabled devices into the home, Entropic Communications, Inc. (Nasdaq:ENTR), a leading provider of silicon and software solutions to enable connected home entertainment, and BroadLight, the leading supplier of GPON semiconductors and software, today announced they are joining forces to deliver best-of-breed home networking solutions for service provider markets. Leveraging Entropic’s demonstrated leadership with MoCA® (Multimedia over Coax Alliance) technology combined with BroadLight’s leadership and expertise in GPON and Network Processor technology, the two companies are aligning silicon and software solution roadmaps to develop and deliver optimized MoCA enabled Optical Network terminals (ONTs) that will be capable of delivering next-generation performance requirements.
This relationship exemplifies both companies’ commitment to technological innovation and sustaining industry leadership positions in the growing home networking and fiber access marketplaces. By synchronizing their shared vision for powerful, ubiquitous connected home entertainment, these two companies are leading the way to bring to market cost-effective, reliable solutions that will fully leverage the advantages of next-generation MoCA connectivity. In addition, service operators can enable architectures and features such as ever higher levels of broadband access, all IP video gateways, remote user interfaces and 3D HDTV programming, by providing abundant bandwidth to and around the home. Consumers can benefit from MoCA technology to retrieve and share broadcast and personal content such as video, photos, music and experience the ultimate in online gaming using the existing coax cable infrastructure within the home.
“BroadLight and Entropic have been working together to ensure our products are optimized to bring out the best performance of GPON and MoCA technologies,” said Doron Tal, vice president business development and product management, BroadLight. “The winning combination has already proven itself with operator deployments using current generation technology from each company. This partnership will help to ensure that operators and consumers alike continue to enjoy all the benefits, power and smooth migration to next-generation GPON and MoCA products and all that future home networks have to offer.”
“By collaborating with BroadLight, the leader in innovative GPON and Network Processor solutions, we continue to build on momentum for MoCA enabled technology,” said Vinay Gokhale, senior vice president marketing and business development, Entropic Communications. “This joint cooperation will yield the next-generation products that will be enjoyed by consumers worldwide by delivering unprecedented levels of bandwidth into and throughout the home.”
About Entropic Communications
Entropic Communications, Inc. (Nasdaq:ENTR) is a leading fabless semiconductor company that is engineering the future of connected home networking and entertainment by providing next-generation silicon and software technologies to the world’s leading cable, telco and satellite service providers, OEMs and consumer electronic manufacturers. As a co-founder of MoCA (Multimedia over Coax Alliance), Entropic pioneered and continues to evolve the way high-definition television-quality video and other multimedia and digital content such as movies, music, games and photos are brought into and delivered throughout the home. For more information, visit Entropic at www.entropic.com.
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About BroadLight
BroadLight is a fabless semiconductor company supplying semiconductor devices and solutions to equipment vendors for FTTH applications around the globe. Its technology spans from optical access to home networking which enables the delivery of highly integrated, low-cost, end-to-end (E2E) solutions from the central office to the customer premise. As a result, BroadLight is the leader in GPON semiconductor devices and software and is currently powering all of the world’s largest PON deployments.
Forward-Looking Statements
Statements in this press release that are not strictly historical in nature constitute "forward-looking statements." Such statements include, but are not limited to, statements regarding technology leadership and the ability to sustain industry leadership, the extent to which any collaboration or partnership will be successful in developing products or solutions, the capability of any product so developed to meet next-generation performance requirements, leverage next-generation MoCA connectivity or deliver increased bandwidth into and throughout the home, the cost-effectiveness or reliability of any product or solution so developed, and the adoption of any such product by service operators or consumers. Such forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which may cause Entropic's actual results to be materially different from historical results or from any results expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. These factors include, but are not limited to, the success of the collaboration described in this press release, which will depend, in part, on each company continuing to devote sufficient resources to achieve the goals of the collaboration; the effects of competition, including the risk that other technologies may achieve greater market acceptance than the solutions developed by Entropic or its partners; the ability of each company to successfully address technical challenges and introduce new and enhanced products on a timely basis; risks associated with market acceptance of new products developed under the collaboration; the risk that the home networking and fiber access marketplaces may not develop as anticipated; the risk that the market for high-definition television-quality video and multimedia content delivery solutions may not develop as anticipated; the effect of intellectual property rights claims; and other factors discussed in the "Risk Factors" section of Entropic's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the three months ended September 30, 2009. All forward-looking statements are qualified in their entirety by this cautionary statement. Entropic is providing this information as of the date of this release and does not undertake any obligation to update any forward-looking statements contained in this release as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.