Entropic Communications of San Diego, California, a $227 million-capitalised fabless semiconductor company focused on home networking and entertainment,

1. A co-founder of the Multimedia over Coax Alliance (MoCA), providing silicon and software technologies to cable, telco and satellite service providers, as well as OEMs and consumer electronic manufacturers.

2. Offering MoCA-based home networking and broadband access solutions using existing coax infrastructure, outdoor unit solutions for digital broadcast satellite providers and silicon TV tuners.

And BroadLight of Santa Clara, California, a privately-held fabless supplier of PON semiconductors and software for FTTH applications,

1. Claiming to be the only company delivering complete end-to-end BPON and GPON components for the central office and customer premise equipment.

2. In January 2010 having announced a collaboration with Realtek of Taiwan to develop turnkey reference platforms addressing GPON and Active Ethernet CPE applications for a variety of FTTH deployments.

Announced they are joining forces to deliver 'best-of-breed' home networking solutions for service provider markets, based on Entropic's MoCA-compliant technology combined with BroadLight's GPON and network processor technology.

The two companies said they are aligning silicon and software solution roadmaps to develop and deliver optimised MoCA-enabled optical network terminals (ONTs) capable of delivering next-generation performance requirements.

Doron Tal, VP of Business Development and Product Management at BroadLight, remarked:

• "BroadLight and Entropic have been working together to ensure our products are optimised to bring out the best performance of GPON and MoCA technologies".

• "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".