Broadband Business Forecast articles from April 2005

Broadband Business Forecast archives from April 2005

The Corporate Triple Play - Not Always As Easy As It Looks.
April 5, 2005... Setting up a corporate triple-play broadband network isn't quite as easy as it might seem - at least to a technical expert, of course. Not everything works quite the way it might in a smaller network although, thankfully, there aren't any...

Canada Mandates Almost Immediate VoIP 911.
April 5, 2005... In a surprise move, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) Monday mandated that voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) providers offer emergency 911 services to their subscribers within the next 90 days - or be...

Executive Q&A: Chunghwa Chairman Predicts Explosive IPTV Growth.
April 5, 2005... Chunghwa Telecom not only is the leading telco in Taiwan and a key player throughout the communications landscape, it is one of the largest telcos in Asia, providing telephony and broadband. It is also one of the most progressive telcos in...

VoIP Briefs.
April 5, 2005... Coming To A Mall Near You: VoIP It looks like voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) kiosks are going to be joining the endless string of cellphone stands in the average American shopping mall. VoIP provider 8x8 [EGHT] has opened what it...

New To Market.
April 5, 2005... Coaxsys Blends Broadband, Cable Signals Coaxsys has gone to market with a new version of its in-home, coaxial- networking system that blends cable and satellite signals with broadband. Various companies, including Coaxsys, have offered...

People To Watch.
April 5, 2005... * Xtend Networks hired industry veteran Jeff Fryling as its vice president of corporate development. Fryling most recently had been working as a contract executive for several companies; before that, he had been with Raytheon in roles that...

Deal Sheet.
April 5, 2005... Who's Doing What?: Juniper Networks [JNPR], headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif.; 408/745-2000 Is looking to beef up its VoIP offerings by buying Kagoor Networks, [privately held], headquartered in San Mateo, Calif.; 650/572-7200 What To...

Why 8x8 Gutted Its VoIP Videophone Prices.
April 19, 2005... 8x8 [EGHT] has cut the heart out of the pricing for its VoIP-based videophone and the monthly fee to use the widget over its Packet8 service in hopes of stimulating sales that so far have been highly disappointing by all reports. Slow sales...

Qwest Does FTTx...Finally.
April 19, 2005... Qwest [Q] finally joined the fiber-to-the-user (FTTx) generation - the last large incumbent local exchange carrier (ILEC) to disclose its FTTx plans - albeit on about as modest a basis as you can get. The company turned on its first user, a...

People To Watch.
April 19, 2005... * VoIP and video communications software house Eyeball Networks named David Monroe as its director of sales and marketing. Monroe joins Eyeball from specialty lighting house TIR Systems, where he was vice president of global sales for the...

Lucent Enters VoIP Services Market With Managed IP PBX Offering.
April 19, 2005... Lucent Technologies' managed services unit is about to become the newest entrant into the voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) business, with a hosted VoIP PBX offering designed for service providers to sell to their business customers. The...

Light Bytes.
April 19, 2005... First Gulf Terabit/s Submarine Cable Launches The first submarine cable in the Persian Gulf with Terabit/S capacity - Flag Telecom's FALCON cable - officially launched last week. The cable, built for Flag by Alcatel's Submarine Networks...

WiMAX Inches Toward Commercialization.
April 19, 2005... WiMAX - the American marketing name for what's really turned out to be the European HiperMAN - has inched a little closer to reality with Intel's formal announcement this week that it's shipping samples of its Rosedale system- on-a-chip...

Deal Sheet.
April 19, 2005... Who's Doing What?: ECI [ECIL], headquartered in Petah Tikva, Israel; 011 972 3926 6555 Is buying the optical activities and technology of Eastern Communications [900941.SS], headquartered in Hangzhou, China ; 011 0086-571- 88865242...