CED articles from January 2001

CED archives from January 2001

Making the best even better.(In-Depth Special Report)(Brief Article)(Editorial)
January 1, 2001... Hopefully, you were so intrigued with the extra publication that fell out of this month's polybag, that you have already read Roger Brown's "Point of Entry" column in our new In-Depth Special Report. If not, don't miss it. The CED editorial...

AT&T and WorldGate team for interactive deployment.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... AT&T Broadband and WorldGate Communications announced in November they were deploying interactive television in three cities. AT&T's rollout of interactive TV to digital-cable customers in Waterloo and Cedar Falls, Iowa, marked the first...

HSA launches DSL service.(High Speed Access Corp.; Digital Subscriber Line)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... High Speed Access Corp. (HSA) has Launched DSL service to small, and midsize businesses in Denver, Atlanta, Tampa, Fla., Raleigh/ Durham, N.C. and San Antonio. HSA also announced the company's rollout will total more than two dozen markets by...

Terayon launches carrier-class BandLeader VoIP platform.(Terayon Communication Systems Inc.)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Terayon Communication Systems Inc., a supplier of voice, data and video broadband networking gear, has Launched BandLeader, a new VoIP platform for cable operators to transport carrier-class voice services over large-scale HFC networks....

Aerocast receives $15 million in financing.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Aerocast has received initial financing and has established: a management team and board. The company, which officially launched in December, is deploying a service that delivers streaming media to homes; and businesses; with broadband Internet...

Lucent unveils VitalAccess multi-provisioning software.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
January 1, 2001... Lucent Technologies has introduced VitalAccess, an integrated multi-vendor software package for broadband service providers to provision and deliver Internet access, multimedia and VoIP services. VitalAccess is a subscriber activation and...

ReplayTV, AT&T to launch trial.(personal television)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... ReplayTV and AT&T Broadband are Launching a joint marketing trial of DVRs and personal television. AT&T Broadband began offering ReplayTV DVRs to selected AT&T digital cable customers in Boston and Denver in November. Last year, the...

ISP Channel folds.(cable television)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... The ISP Channel ceased offering services to most of its cable system affiliates Dec. 31, with some operations continuing through this month, according to settlement agreements with specific cable operators. The company previously announced it...

Texas Instruments offers voice-enabled cable modem.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Texas Instruments Inc. (TI) has introduced a complete voice-enabled cable modem TI has built upon its voice technology to enable cable operators to provide bundled services across all market segments such as primary-line telephony for...

BroadJump's Truck Installer in more AT&T markets.(Virtual Truck Installer)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... BroadJump Inc. has announced that AT&T Broadband will expand use of its Virtual Truck Installer in Dallas, Denver, Pittsburgh, Portland, Ore., Seattle and the Bay Area. Portions of AT&T Broadband have already been using Virtual Truck Installer...

VOD on your home computer.(video on demand)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
January 1, 2001... Video-on-demand for the home computer is closer to becoming a reality with the introduction of Bryan Media Group's video-on-demand product. The product will allow consumers to view full-length feature films on their computer. After three...

RiverDelta introduces smart optical edge routing.(network interface modules)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
January 1, 2001... RiverDelta Networks Inc. has introduced two new network interface modules that allow cable operators to deploy the Broadband Services Router 64000 (BSR 64000) to efficient[y connect to the optical core networks of one or more providers. ...

Gateway launches `connected home'.(home Internet appliance)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
January 1, 2001... Gateway Inc. and strategic partners America Online Inc., Broadcom Corp. and Transmeta Corp. have unveiled an array of new products and services, along with new training capabilities, designed to accelerate the introduction of new home Internet...

Selling modems on the Web.(Motorla Broadband Communications Sector Web site)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... MotoroLa Broadband Communications Sector has launched a new e-commerce Web site, www.motorola.com /broadband/store, to market DOCSIS cable modems directly to consumers. The site offers consumers educational information, a cable Internet...

Gateways empowering 25 million residences.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2001... The residential gateway market will grow to 25 million installed units valued at $5 billion by 2005, according to data released by Parks Associates. The residential gateway connects the wide-area network to the in-home network, and Parks...

OpenTV, Motorola in interactive TV partnership.(Motorola Broadband Communications Sector)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... OpenTV and Motorola Broadband Communications Sector have entered into a partnership to accelerate interactive TV deployments worldwide. The new joint venture's services will include cable and satellite integration, testing and development....

Sprint deploying Hybrid's MMDS system in three states.(Hybrid Networks; multichannel, multipoint distribution systems)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Sprint Corp. is using Hybrid Networks' two-way system for the deployment of Sprint Broadband Direct in Denver and Boulder, Colo., Salt Lake City and Wichita, Kan. Hybrid has provided Sprint with headend equipment that manages data...

LSI Logic acquires ParaVoice's VoIP.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... LSI Logic Corp. has acquired VoIP intellectual property assets and related engineering talent for $39.4 million from ParaVoice, a company that specializes in voice, fax and data compression technology. "Our technology roadmap calls for LSI...

CableLabs releases new PacketCable specs.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... CableLabs has completed the second phase of the PacketCable project and has released several new PacketCable interim specifications and technical reports. The newly released specs describe call signaling, QoS and event messaging extensions to...

ON TOP OF THE World.(AT&T Broadband)(Column)
January 1, 2001... Susan Marshall has already made AT&T Broadband the largest high-speed data service provider in the world. Next, she'll guide the company into a highly charged and competitive era. For most of us, life has a way of passing by long before we...

ON THE WAGON.
January 1, 2001... Home networking technologies and interactive-television applications were the hot ticket at the annual Western Show Roughly 32,000 people hopped aboard the "Broadband Wagon" last month in Los Angdes, drawn to the annual Western Show. While...

VOD business case now makes sense.
January 1, 2001... Advanced optical and digital architectures for VOD The falling costs of computing power and digital hardware, combined with innovative hybrid fiber/coax (HFC) transport techniques such as dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM), are...

Broadband providers pull banner year.
January 1, 2001... Real subscriber numbers for data and digital video services Despite an array of potential advanced services set-backs--a worldwide shortage of fiber, tuners and memory chips, a disconcertingly empty retail channel for cable modems, and a...

Evaluating power supply reliability.
January 1, 2001... How to add meaning to a subjective concept A manufacturer wanted to hire an accountant, and applicants were given a simple test: "What is two plus two?" Candidate after candidate failed--until one gave the answer his future boss wanted:...

Companies aim to re-tool their images.
January 1, 2001... Acquisitions, shifts in product strategy necessitate new identities The "image is everything" message used by a popular camera maker may be a stretch, but for a growing number of cable and telecommunications vendors, suppliers and...

2001: A time to marvel.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... I remember watching "2001: A Space Odyssey" back in the 1960s and marveling at the other-worldly evolutionary tale that Arthur C. Clarke and Stanley Kubrick were spinning. Maybe we haven't quite achieved all that Messrs. Kubrick and Clarke...

BUSINESS BRIEFS.
January 1, 2001... C-COR.net allies with Filtronic STATE COLLEGE, Pa. -- C-COR.net is expanding its strategic vendor relationship with Filtronic Broadband Ltd. to cover digital return path products employing a unique radio-based waveform compression and...

new products.
January 1, 2001... PRODUCT REVIEWS Subscriber appliance SAN DIEGO, Calif. -- Aegis Broadband Inc. has introduced its iVision, a set-top appliance which incorporates a cable TV tuner for "in the clear" television programming with access to authorized...

Up in the air.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... We've all felt the impact of airline delays and congestion this past year, and we've begun to read about the need to modernize the Air Traffic Control (ATC) system. My local newspaper (The Washington Post) has even connected the congestion and...

One step ahead.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... WELCOME TO INDEPTH, the newest product innovation from the editors of CED magazine. Through the pages of this theme-based monthly special report, we'll be bringing you the market intelligence you need to compete in what has become an incredibly...

NEW KIDS on the block.
January 1, 2001... As U.S. cable and telecommunications companies have grown ever-larger in size via consolidation, a rash of small, regional service providers have sprung up around the country. They're promising to bring new services at reasonable prices to...

Small towns building BROADBAND FUTURES.
January 1, 2001... MUNICIPAL-OWNED UTILITIES ARE TAKING BROADBAND INTO THEIR OWN HANDS TO GET THE SERVICES THEY WANT Competition. Great word. Great concept. Except when you're the sole provider of a particular product, and someone has the audacity to...

who's got the MONEY?
January 1, 2001... Overbuilders attracting the lending crowd Call them what you want--over-builders, broadband or alternate service providers, even choice providers--but they're kicking some serious assets into play as they prepare to take on cable and...

Broadband battleground.
January 1, 2001... One of the country's most wired cities is ground zero for a battle royale between broadband competitors It's no secret that Texans do everything big. They live big. They spend big. Hell, they even fight big. Remember the Alamo? Well,...

Sleuthing to find the right employee.
January 1, 2001... With the nation's unemployment at an all-time low of 3.9 percent, broadband service providers (BSPs) and other technology companies are in a mad scramble, looking for skilled workers to design, build and maintain their networks. Even news about...

F-Connector Cross-Reference Chart.(Statistical Data Included)(Illustration)
January 1, 2001... DIGICON CONNECTIONS Series: Digicon Series: S Compression(*) Compression(*) BELDEN CABLES Part # Part # 59 Series 67% Braid...