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[[File:Logo-RouteFree.png|200px|thumb|RouteFree logo.]]
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'''Acer Cloud Technology''' (formerly known as '''iGware''', '''BroadOn''', and '''RouteFree''') is a software engineering company that contributed to hardware, software, and online platform development for several of Nintendo's consoles. It was launched in April 2000 as RouteFree, and was subsequently renamed to BroadOn in 2003 and iGWare in 2009. The company merged with Acer in 2011 with a $320 million deal and became Acer Cloud Computing. It was founded by a Chinese-American entrepreneur named [[Wei Yen]] who had previously worked on the N64 and GameCube hardware development teams at [[Silicon Graphics]] and [[ArtX]] respectively. It was a privately held startup company, with 50 employees at its peak.
'''Acer Cloud Technology''' (formerly known as '''iGware''', '''BroadOn''', and '''RouteFree''') is a software engineering company that contributed to hardware, software, and online platform development for several of Nintendo's consoles. It was launched in April 2000 as RouteFree, and was subsequently renamed to BroadOn in 2003 and iGware in 2009. The company merged with Acer in 2011 with a $320 million deal and became Acer Cloud Computing. It was founded by a Chinese-American entrepreneur named [[Wei Yen]] who had previously worked on the N64 and GameCube hardware development teams at [[Silicon Graphics]] and [[ArtX]] respectively. It was a privately held startup company, with 50 employees at its peak.
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== Name change ==
== Name change ==
It is unknown why RouteFree was renamed to BroadOn. The name of the company was most likely changed from BroadOn to iGware due to a lawsuit between Broadcom and BroadOn, possibly relating to their name and/or the chip manufacturing business.
It is unknown why RouteFree was renamed to BroadOn. It was changed again from BroadOn to iGware, most likely due to a lawsuit between Broadcom and BroadOn, possibly relating to their name and/or the chip manufacturing business.
== Contributions to Nintendo products ==
== Contributions to Nintendo products ==
== Domain ==
== Domain ==
When BroadOn merged with Acer Cloud Computing, the NUS service they made was reused for deploying cloud apps. The domain they use on SOAP requests is "nus.wsapi.broadon.com", and continued to be used even after they were called iGware.
When BroadOn merged with Acer Cloud Computing, the NUS service they made was reused for deploying cloud apps for Acer devices. The domain they use on SOAP requests is "nus.wsapi.broadon.com", and continued to be used even after they were called iGware.
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