September 2, 2010 - Santa Clara, Calif. - BroadLight, the leading supplier of fiber access processors, announced today its strategic partnership with Skelmir, the leading provider of small footprint, high performance Virtual Machines for running Java applications on embedded devices.
The Skelmir CEE-J Virtual Machine (VM) has been ported to the BroadLight BL2348 and BL2548 fiber access processors. The availability of the CEE-J VM for these processors provides a market ready platform to run Java and OSGi applications for the connected home.
"Our fiber-grade architecture enables high performance processing for Java and OSGi that delivers the application performance demanded by carriers for service enablement in today's connected digital home." Said Doron Tal, VP of Business Development and Product Management at BroadLight.
The partnership combines BroadLight's fiber access processors with Skelmir's CEE-J VM technologies, providing significant advantage to carriers by enabling them to increase their ARPU with innovative revenue generating services.
Chris Hausner, VP of Sales at Skelmir, added that "the partnership between Skelmir and BroadLight connects our CEE-J VM solution for OSGi with BroadLight's fiber access processors, ensuring a fast time-to-market solution with the high performance our joint customer-base has come to expect."
About BroadLight
BroadLight is a fabless semiconductor company supplying processors to equipment vendors for fiber access applications around the globe. BroadLight enables service delivery with its highly integrated processors and software for central office and customer premise equipment.
A worldwide leader in fiber access semiconductor and software, BroadLight powers all the GPON deployments worldwide. For more information, please visit http://www.broadlight.com.
About Skelmir LLC
Founded in 1998, Skelmir® is a Massachusetts-based software company with a global reach. We specialize in providing small footprint, high performance, and robust infrastructure solutions for embedded devices. Skelmir's family of CEE-J® clean room virtual machines and libraries are designed for a wide range of processors, operating systems and embedded configurations. Easily ported to new platforms, CEE-J offers advanced graphical capabilities ideal for network gateways, digital television displays, onboard navigation systems, Internet appliances, industrial applications and more. When a device calls for high performance virtual machine execution, advanced graphics, and a minimal footprint, Skelmir's team and technology are the proven choice. For more information, please visit www.skelmir.com
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