CED articles from October 2000

CED archives from October 2000

Competition at the door?
October 1, 2000... Within these pages, we write about new products and technologies that enable new services, or perhaps make people more productive. We often write with a sense of urgency, noting that the world is becoming intensely more competitive. But is...

Akamai teams with Intertainer & Incanta to enhance streaming.
October 1, 2000... Streaming media and caching company Akamai is taking steps into the broadband marketplace by forging a deal with Entertainer Inc. and Incanta. Intertainer's entertainment on demand service will use Akamai's FreeFlow Streaming network to...

Gee, we hardly knew ya.
October 1, 2000... Broadband satellite service provider iSKY will change its name to WildBlue Communications. Company officials said the new name "embodies the frontier spirit of this company, whose mission is to make affordable broadband Internet access...

Excite@ Home offers Virtual film studios.
October 1, 2000... Excite@Home and streaming media company Media 100 Inc. have Launched a new "personal" video broadband application for Excite and @Home users. The two companies will soon offer IntroDV MovieMate, Media 100's Internet video creation application...

Lightpath embraces DSL data, telephony.
October 1, 2000... Next Level Communications Inc. and Lightpath, a division of Cablevision Systems Corp., have launched voice and digital subscriber line data services over existing copper lines in New Jersey, Westchester County, N.Y., and other parts of the New...

C-COR.net to resell for Micromuse.
October 1, 2000... C-COR.net says it will become an authorized reseller for California-based Micromuse Inc., which provides fault-and service-level management software called Netcool. C-COR.net will offer the Netcool package as a core component of its...

S-A puts its money on PON.
October 1, 2000... In a move designed to speed the deployment of fiber in the "last mile" to the home, Scientific-Atlanta said it will pump up to $8 million into Alloptic Inc., a developer of passive optical network (PON) technologies, to co-develop and deliver...

RBOCs have winning DSL gameplan.
October 1, 2000... Forget cable vs. DSL-who's going to win the DSL vs. DSL war? According to a new study, Goliath will defeat David. That's the conclusion drawn by Cahners In-Stat Group, which concluded that despite aggressive campaigns by competitive local...

UPRONT.
October 1, 2000... Road Runner said last month that it had topped the 1-million subscriber benchmark, roughly doubling its customer base since January. To celebrate. more than $400,000 will be donated to charities across the country. Going forward, Road...

Cisco gives content delivery a big push.
October 1, 2000... Cisco Systems Inc. has formed a new "Content Alliance" to accelerate the market evolution of content delivery services. Service providers, including Cable & Wireless, Digital IsLand, Genuity, GlobalCenter, Mirror Image Internet, NaviSite,...

Healthcare goes broadband.
October 1, 2000... AmeriNet Inc., a large membership-based healthcare group purchasing organization, will work with Marconi to promote a broadband-based solution to AmeriNet's 14,000 member facilities. As a result, the two companies will promote voice, video...

Utility.com debuts DSL.
October 1, 2000... Internet provider Utility.com has introduced Utility.com DSL to residential customers in 40 markets nationwide. Through an agreement with Phoenix Networks, Utility.com will add DSL to its residential customer service mix, which includes dial-up...

DSL PROVIDER MAVERIX. NET INC.
October 1, 2000... has launched its service in Kansas City, Little Rock, Oklahoma City and Tutsa. Maverix.net DSL service was scheduled to be available in each of these cities as of mid-August 2000. The company has been serving St. Louis, Mo. since May 2000. In...

SmartDSL schools other business models.
October 1, 2000... eSoft Inc. has launched SmartDSL, a subscription-based, enhanced broadband solution for small- to medium-sized enterprises. SmartDSL is a value-added, turnkey solution that uses digital subscriber line technology to deliver business...

Pegasus aims iTV portal at satellite subs.
October 1, 2000... Pegasus Communications Corp., the country's third-largest DBS provider, and interactive TV company MetaTV, will develop a portal designed specifically to deliver iTV and TV-centric Internet services to satellite subscribers in underserved...

NorteL to buy Sonoma, extend providers' reach to business.
October 1, 2000... Nortel Networks says it plans to acquire Sonoma Systems, a company which builds integrated access devices, for up to $540 million in stock. Nortel officials say the acquisition will enable Nortel to tie the core, optical-based Internet to...

Thomson creates Digital Media Solutions group.(Thomson Multimedia)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2000... Thomson multimedia has formed a Digital Media Solutions group to provide key infrastructure products and services to the entertainment and media industries. With the growing popularity of broadband connectivity stimulating the need for...

RateXchange is bullish on bandwidth trading.(Brief Article)
October 1, 2000... Bandwidth broker RateXchange Corp. completed the beta trial, of RateXmatch, a new market service for bandwidth trading that uses a similar approach to trading as the electronic trading platforms that dominate on-line natural gas and electricity...

Broadband musical immersion.(Soundbreak.com)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2000... Soundbreak.com officials said it plans to break into the broadband and wireless markets via a new technology initiative announced Last month. The company provides live, continuous, personality-driven music and lifestyle audio/video...

Wired solutions short out the networked home.
October 1, 2000... The concepts for "homes of the future" have been around for a very long time, and they conjure up many different images for each individual who ponders their meaning. Many events over the last half of the 20th century shaped their own version...

LETTERS.
October 1, 2000... Solving the DLC/loop length problem To Michael Lafferty, Associate Editor, CED: I enjoyed your article on DSL services (CED May 2000, p. 52), and shared it with several of my colleagues. However, I do have a couple of items to share...

Putting it all together.
October 1, 2000... As broadbond access spreads, home networking solutions that make the most of this fat pipe's potential are popping up all over. It's clear operators are going to have to get involved if they want to corner customer loyalty and revenues. To...

Hammering Out Standards.
October 1, 2000... The home networking standards sector is rife with activity, as several standards groups vie to firm up their individual specifications, evolve existing specs and create new ones. Driven by stratospheric marketing projections and escalating...

Getting to the nirvana-networked home.(Interview)
October 1, 2000... CableLabs works to identify all possible consumer scenarios The TV knows you don't want to be disturbed unless it's important, like one of your kids calling to report a fender-bender. You elect to send the big game to the big screen, and...

Fiber-to-the-home deployment inches forward.
October 1, 2000... Providers eye the path to full service offerings The inching forward of fiber-to-the home (FTTH) deployment by a small but widening cross-section of multi-service providers is prompting a re-evaluation of business models which for years...

Putting cable modems to the test.
October 1, 2000... How to measure modem performance in a controlled environment Internet access via cable modems is one of several emerging broadband access technologies that are now available to end users. Multiple system operators (MSOs) are upgrading their...

Weaving PANs and cable networks together.
October 1, 2000... Wireless personal area networks can connect people and smart devices The arrival of cable modems has created a gateway from the home computer and other associated "smart appliances to the cable network. To date, more than one million cable...

Defining the Internet appliance.
October 1, 2000... What do consumers really want, and why? It's a question of when, not if. When Internet appliances become the next hot product market, I mean. Why am I so confident that the time for Internet appliances is just now upon us? Three reasons:...

Iridium, the Concorde and HDTV.(Brief Article)
October 1, 2000... It is amazing how an idea can be accepted without question until it becomes painfully obvious that it is flawed. Perhaps it is the painfulness of the truth that forces a blind pursuit of the idea in the hopes that the obvious just isn't so....

BUSINESS BRIEFS.
October 1, 2000... S-A donates $1 million to Gwinnett Tech ATLANTA--Scientific-Atlanta executives and employees recently joined with Georgia and Gwinnett County officials to break ground for Gwinnett Technical College's new multi-million-dollar George Busbee...

new products.
October 1, 2000... Status monitoring CHESWICK, Pa.--Tollgrade Communications Inc. has introduced its new Lighthouse Headend Controller (HEC) Model 360MPS, which offers users a choice of an AC or DC powered device. Tollgrade says that the product has been...

business people.
October 1, 2000... OpenTV Interactive Ltd. has named James Ackerman as its new president and chief operating officer. He has also been appointed as CEO of the company's applications business. Ackerman takes on the new positions after having most recently served...

Another interface.
October 1, 2000... Here comes another interface dispute. The previous dispute dealt with a baseband interface for carrying compressed digital video. Now we are looking at two contenders for a digital baseband interface with a data rate high enough to carry...

CED CABLE MODEM DEPLOYMENT UPDATE.
October 1, 2000... Cable MSO/system HP 21 st Century Chicago, Ill. N/D AT&T Broadband Adrian (Liberty), Mich. 18,916 Alameda, Calif. ...