Broadcom Inc. is a global technology company, which designs, develops, and supplies semiconductors and infrastructure software solutions. The company is headquartered in Palo Alto, California and currently employs 20,000 full-time employees. The company went IPO on 2009-08-06. The firm operates through two segments: semiconductor solutions and infrastructure software. The firm's semiconductor solutions segment includes all of its product lines and intellectual property (IP) licensing. The company provides semiconductor solutions for managing the movement of data in data center, service provider and enterprise networking applications. Its infrastructure software segment includes its mainframe, distributed and cyber security solutions, and its fiber channel storage area networking (FC SAN) business. The company provides a portfolio of software solutions that enables customers to plan, develop, automate, manage and secure applications across mainframe, distributed, mobile and cloud platforms. Its product portfolio serves markets, including cloud, data center, networking, broadband, wireless and enterprise software.