Broadband Business Forecast articles from April 2006

Broadband Business Forecast archives from April 2006

Hollywood Comes To Broadband.
April 4, 2006... TelecomNEXT, the first of the two trade shows spawned by the death of Supercomm, played Las Vegas two weeks ago - and any notion that the main focus of the show, and perhaps of the industry, was or is any sort of telephony was quickly...

RIP SuperComm - But The Show(s) Must Go On.(Interview)
April 4, 2006... With the first half of what used to be SuperComm under the industry's belt with the recent TelecomNEXT show in Las Vegas, the controversy over the sundering of what once was the industry's premiere event has intensified even more - and we've...

TelecomNEXT Wrap: Taking Ethernet's Pulse.
April 4, 2006... While the big noise at the recent TelecomNEXT trade show revolved around IPTV and Hollywood glamour, there was also a decent dose of industry nuts and bolts - in the case of broadband represented by the launch of a fourth stage in the Metro...

People To Watch.
April 4, 2006... * Wi-Fi house Ruckus Wireless has hired Steve Martin, former vice president of engineering for Airespace (which was acquired by Cisco in 2005), to head its engineering organization. * Colin Shave is the new executive director of sales at...

Deal Sheet 04/04/06.
April 4, 2006... Who's Doing What? Consolidated Edison [ED], headquartered in New York City; 212/460-4600 Has finally sold off its telecommunications subsidiary Con Edison Communications To RCN Corporation [RCNI], headquartered in...

TelecomNEXT Wrap Part II: The IPTV Food Chain.
April 18, 2006... By now, it's hardly a secret that the biggest splash in broadband and telecommunications is the onrushing implementation of Internet Protocol television (IPTV) and, indeed, as Broadband Business Forecast reported in its last issue (BBF,...

PMC & Passave: The Perfect Marriage?(Company overview)
April 18, 2006... Just hours after the last edition of Broadband Business Forecast went to press, the word came down that broadband chip house PMC-Sierra is gobbling up passive optical network (PON) chip pioneer Passave (TelecomWeb news break, April 5), a...

Microsoft Bows To Modulus.
April 18, 2006... The mighty Microsoft has bowed to tiny MPEG-4 startup Modulus Video. Modulus' ME6000 has become the first high-definition (HD) MPEG-4 AVC video encoder to be certified for Microsoft TV's IPTV Edition software. Microsoft would have liked...

Intellon Fires Broadside In BPL Battle.
April 18, 2006... Broadband over powerline (BPL) chip house Intellon says it's just passed the five-million-chips-shipped milestone for its HomePlug Powerline Alliance specification-compliant silicon along with hitting a production rate of one million chips...

Company To Watch: Convedia Expands Its IP-Media Processing Target.
April 18, 2006... Canadian IP media processing house Convedia, in a move outside of its comfortable niche selling IP media servers into the carrier world, has decided to target the enterprise market as well. The 115-person company, whose reseller channel...

People To Watch.
April 18, 2006... * Harris Corporation has named Timothy E. "Tim" Thorsteinson president of the company's Broadcast Communications Division, an operation of growing importance to the broadband industry as Harris moves into the realm of IPTV. Thorsteinson had...

Deal Sheet 04/17/06.
April 18, 2006... Who's Doing What? Level 3 Communications [LVLT], headquartered in Broomfield, Colo.; 720/888-1000 Is paying cash and stock for IGC Communications [privately held], headquartered in Englewood, Colo.; 303/414-5000 >>Terms Of...