We spent some time this week listening to the unique perspective of a new broadband leader, in Sckipio, where marketing Supremo Michael Weissman, pointed us to a Broadcom lock-in, talked about over-performance in its chip trials, and its innovative method for connecting its G.fast lines to optical backhaul. He paints a convincing picture of a two horse race with Broadcom, confesses that chip development between the two companies are neck and neck, but coming from a vastly differing points of view, and claims 5 hardware partnerships and 44 trial projects underway. While the cloud represents the answer to most technology questions right now, many old telco-based operators, who to this day rely on copper connectivity in the last hop to…