Gigle Networks was a provider of high performance system-on-a-chip

System-on-a-chip

A system on a chip or system on chip is an integrated circuit that integrates all components of a computer or other electronic system into a single chip. It may contain digital, analog, mixed-signal, and often radio-frequency functions—all on a single chip substrate...

 semiconductor devices and intelligent switching technology for home network

Home network

A home network or home area network is a residential local area network . It is used for communication between digital devices typically deployed in the home, usually a small number of personal computers and accessories, such as printers and mobile computing devices...

, IPTV

IPTV

Internet Protocol television is a system through which television services are delivered using the Internet protocol suite over a packet-switched network such as the Internet, instead of being delivered through traditional terrestrial, satellite signal, and cable television formats.IPTV services...

, consumer electronics

Consumer electronics

Consumer electronics are electronic equipment intended for everyday use, most often in entertainment, communications and office productivity. Radio broadcasting in the early 20th century brought the first major consumer product, the broadcast receiver...

 and smart grid applications. The company is based in Barcelona

Barcelona

Barcelona is the second largest city in Spain after Madrid, and the capital of Catalonia, with a population of 1,621,537 within its administrative limits on a land area of...

, Spain, Edinburgh

Edinburgh

Edinburgh is the capital city of Scotland, the second largest city in Scotland, and the eighth most populous in the United Kingdom. The City of Edinburgh Council governs one of Scotland's 32 local government council areas. The council area includes urban Edinburgh and a rural area...

, UK, and Redwood City, California.

Gigle was a venture capital

Venture capital

Venture capital is financial capital provided to early-stage, high-potential, high risk, growth startup companies. The venture capital fund makes money by owning equity in the companies it invests in, which usually have a novel technology or business model in high technology industries, such as...

 backed privately held company

Privately held company

A privately held company or close corporation is a business company owned either by non-governmental organizations or by a relatively small number of shareholders or company members which does not offer or trade its company stock to the general public on the stock market exchanges, but rather the...

. The company completed a Series A funding round of $11 million in January 2006, led by Accel Partners

Accel Partners

Accel Partners is a global venture and growth equity firm funding companies from inception through the growth stage.The firm is based in Palo Alto, California with major offices in Bangalore, Beijing, London, and Shanghai....

 and Pond Venture Partners; and a Series B funding round of $20 million in November 2007, led by Scottish Equity Partners

Scottish Equity Partners

Scottish Equity Partners is a leading independent owner managed venture capital and growth equity firm. It invests in innovative, high growth companies in the information technology, healthcare and energy technology sectors...

 with participation from Accel Partners

Accel Partners

Accel Partners is a global venture and growth equity firm funding companies from inception through the growth stage.The firm is based in Palo Alto, California with major offices in Bangalore, Beijing, London, and Shanghai....

 and Pond Venture Partners. In December

December

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 2010, the company was acquired by Broadcom

Broadcom

Broadcom Corporation is a fabless semiconductor company in the wireless and broadband communication business. The company is headquartered in Irvine, California, USA. Broadcom was founded by a professor-student pair Henry Samueli and Henry T. Nicholas III from the University of California, Los...

 for $75m.

Gigle was reported to be the first company to bring to market a home networking wireline solution capable of delivering 1 Gbit/s physical layer throughput.

Standards

Gigle Networks was actively involved in the creation, support and setting of multimedia communications standards and was an active participant in IEEE P1901

IEEE P1901

The IEEE 1901 working group of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers develops standards for high speed power line communications....

 and G.hn

G.hn

G.hn is the common name for a home network technology family of standards developed under the International Telecommunication Union's Standardization arm and promoted by the HomeGrid Forum...

 wireline standardization activities. Gigle Networks was a board member of the HomePlug Powerline Alliance

HomePlug Powerline Alliance

The HomePlug Powerline Alliance is a trade association of electronics manufacturers, service providers, and retailers that establishes standards for, and tests members' devices for compliance to, the various power line communication technologies known as HomePlug.The alliance developed standards...

, a co-founder of the Homegrid Forum a member of the Home Gateway Initiative

Home Gateway Initiative

The Home Gateway Initiative is nonprofit organization launched by a number of telephone companies in December 2004 to provide a place where operators, content providers, service providers and manufacturers can discuss the key specifications and...

 and the Broadband Forum

Broadband Forum

The Broadband Forum is a non-profit industry consortium dedicated to developing broadband network specifications. Members include telecommunications networking and service provider companies, broadband device and equipment vendors, consultants and independent testing labs...

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