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BroadLight Promotes Raanan Gewirtzman to COO After Stellar Period of Company and Product Execution

Posted on: Monday, 19 June 2006, 09:00 CDT

BroadLight, Inc., a leading supplier of ITU Passive Optical Network (PON) semiconductors and software, today announced the promotion of Raanan Gewirtzman to Chief Operating Officer (COO). Raanan joined the company as General Manager in October 2003 and has successfully led the team that delivered the industry's first GPON silicon in December 2005, which enabled the company to capture more than 25 new design wins less than 5 months after first samples.

"It is with great pleasure that I recognize Raanan's contributions to BroadLight after a stellar period of flawless product execution and worldwide customer expansion," said Andrew Vought, CEO of BroadLight. "Under Raanan's leadership, BroadLight's first GPON silicon achieved production-quality, adhered to all the interoperability standards and gave BroadLight the time-to-market advantage it needed to establish a clear market leadership position."

Raanan has more than 20 years of experience in hardware and software design along with strong managerial skills in IC development operations. Before BroadLight, Raanan was instrumental in building the development arm of Virata, where he developed a new range of communication processors and introduced a full COT process flow. Prior to Virata, Raanan spent 14 years with IBM Research and Development. Raanan holds an MSc in Electrical Engineering and a BSc in Computer Engineering from Technion Institute of Technology.

About BroadLight, Inc.

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.

Source: Business Wire

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