Sacramento-based KeyEye Communications Inc., a maker of chips for telecommunications gear, is opening a design center in Irvine headed by a former developer at Broadcom Corp.
KeyEye is looking to develop products that transfer data at 10 gigabits per second, the new high-speed standard. The company said it put its design center in Irvine because of the area’s workforce trained in digital communications product.
Alan Kwentus, KeyEye’s vice president of digital signal processing technology development, is set to manage the design center.
Kwentus recently joined KeyEye from Irvine chipmaker Broadcom, where he headed development of the company’s satellite physical layer technologies.
“To design advanced transceivers that deliver 10 Gbps performance over existing copper-based media, we need access to veteran designers of high-speed digital communication devices,” Kwentus said in a statement.
KeyEye was started in 2001 and is backed by venture capital investors.
