Broadband Business Forecast articles from April 2007

Broadband Business Forecast archives from April 2007

Lobbying Battle Begins Over "White Spaces" For Broadband Services.
April 3, 2007... Dell, Intel, Microsoft and Google, among other companies, have cast their eyes longingly at delivering high-speed Internet services over "unused" TV airwaves. However, U.S. TV broadcasters and cable operators are leery of allowing such...

Cisco Holds Top Spot On Industry 'Patent Scorecard'.
April 3, 2007... Cisco Systems once again has topped the telecommunications industry as the world's best source of innovation, based on an annual study done by The Patent Board, which conducts what it describes as a "qualitative and quantitative analysis" of...

People To Watch (04/03/07).
April 3, 2007... One Communications, which lays claim to the honor of being the largest privately held provider of telecommunications services in the country, has snagged Howard Janzen, the former president of Sprint Business Solutions, as its CEO. One...

Sonus Picks Up Wireless VoIP House.
April 3, 2007... Voice over IP (VoIP) infrastructure solutions house Sonus Networks, in a move to beef up its presence in wireless VoIP, is buying privately held GSM infrastructure house Zynetix Ltd. Sonus will pay approximately $13.2 million in cash and...

The Broadband Laser Consolidation Continues.
April 3, 2007... Indium Phosphide (InP) optical chip and component house CyOptics signed a definitive agreement to buy Apogee Photonics, a supplier of laser sources for the 10Gb/s and emerging 40Gb/s markets. Financial details of the acquisition were not...

Tripping The Light Fantastic: Bell Labs Unveils CMOS Photonics.
April 3, 2007... The fabled Bell Labs, in one of its first major technological tours de force as a French company, has demonstrated the world's first complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS), silicon-based, tunable optical waveguide equalizer - an...

DSL Inches Into Africa.
April 17, 2007... Internet access via Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL) now is a reality in most major cities across Africa - well, at least it is for those who can afford it. In a recent analytical study, Broadband Business Forecast's sister e-...

People To Watch.
April 17, 2007... Mark Ritter has joined network-integration firm Core180 Inc. as vice president/DATS Services, in a move that puts him at the heart of the U.S. military's data communications network. Ritter had been vice president/telecom solutions at...

Kasenna Claims First Million-Sub IPTV Benchmark.
April 17, 2007... Figuratively sticking its tongue out at competitors, Kasenna is claiming that, working with HP and Intel, it has passed benchmark tests that prove its IPTV solution "can support one million subscribers." Proving scalability, particularly...

Ikanos Jumps Into The FTTH Fray.
April 17, 2007... Broadband chip house Ikanos, until now known mainly as a VDSL specialist, is broadening its horizons with a thrust into the world of fiber-to-the-home (FTTH). The company's initial move into FTTH targets the residential gateway market...

Industry Heavyweights Moot Fibre Channel Over Ethernet Spec.
April 17, 2007... A group of some of the meatiest heavyweights in the storage and broadband networking business have banded together to propose what was once an unthinkable standard: Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE). The group - Brocade, Cisco, EMC,...

Verso Gobbles Up Softswitch Startup sentitO.
April 17, 2007... Verso Technologies is buying softswitch maker sentitO in an all-stock deal that looks like it could be worth somewhere in the neighborhood of $10 million (in terms of stock market trading prices) if all revenue goals are met. Verso's...

Entropic In A Magic Buyout.
April 17, 2007... In-home broadband chip house Entropic Communications has signed a definitive agreement to buy RF Magic, a specialist in semiconductors for fixed- wireless-broadband and microtuners for digital TV. Terms of the acquisition were not...

Alcatel-Lucent Picks Up The Pieces At Tropic Networks.
April 17, 2007... Alcatel-Lucent is buying what it describes as "substantially all the assets, including all intellectual property (IP)" of Canadian metro wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) networking supplier Tropic Networks, an outfit which appears to...