Published: 15 August 2000 11:55 GMT
Broadcom, the US-based manufacturer of optical networking, plans to acquire fibre optic specialists, NewPort Communications, for $1.24bn.
NewPort specialises in developing integrated circuits, which boost the bandwidth capacity of optical fibre networks
Broadcom CEO, Henry Nicholas, said NewPort would provide the communications interface for high-speed fibre-optic internet technology.
The deal, which will be an all-stock transaction, follows Broadcom's acquisition of Silicon Spice - a fibre-optic software company - for $1.2bn last week.
Broadcom has made 11 other all-stock acquisitions this year. Its market capitalisation jumped almost four per cent to over $50bn, on hearing the news.
Due to expansion our client is now seeking a highly skilled Analogue Design Engineer with excellent experience of developing PCB level high speed and ...
You will be skilled in designing high-speed circuits (min 2.5GHz) and ideally will have extensive pure CMOS design experience although just Bi-CMOS ...
You will also look at peering requests, physical fibre termination, traffic routing etc. You must be an excellent Service Provider network engineer ...
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