Reading between the lines of this week’s Ikanos rights issue, it looks to us that Alcatel is keeping VDSL chip maker Ikanos alive and healthy as a counterpoint to Broadcom’s increasing dominance of the global broadband chip industry. The Ikanos stock had fallen to way under $1 and it was in danger of being dumped out of Nasdaq, with just $20 million of cash in the bank. Given that last quarter its cash burn was around $17 million and it made a $12.3 million loss. That gives it less than two further quarters to live at its current burn rate. At a time when the number of broadband chip makers is falling globally, if Ikanos had failed it would have…