Broadcom Corp. (Nasdaq: BRCM) still can't divulge most of its Ethernet-chip customers, and most of its customers won't admit they use Broadcom.

Yet at Interop this week, there were these big ol' racks with a bunch of different vendors' equipment in them. A bunch of systems names, just hanging out with Broadcom for no reason.

In case it's not obvious enough: These almost certainly represented OEMs that are using Broadcom, collected in one not-so-hidden place. Broadcom couldn't officially comment, of course.

Here's who was there. Any surprises?

• Adtran Inc. (Nasdaq: ADTN)
• Alaxala
• Arista Networks Inc.
• Avaya Inc.
• Dell Technologies (Nasdaq: DELL)
• Extreme Networks Inc. (Nasdaq: EXTR)
• Force10 Networks Inc.
• Hitachi Cable Ltd.
• HP Inc. (NYSE: HPQ)
• IBM Corp. (NYSE: IBM)
• NEC Corp. (Tokyo: 6701)
• Netgear Inc. (Nasdaq: NTGR)

— Craig Matsumoto, West Coast Editor, Light Reading