Broadband Business Forecast articles from August 2005

Broadband Business Forecast archives from August 2005

Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?
August 9, 2005... With voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) providers scrambling like mad to meet the Federal Communications Commission's onrushing Sept. 19 deadline for provision of E911 services, VoIP wholesaler RNK Telecom has gone into final testing of the...

Executive Q&A: Inmarsat CEO Talks Broadband Global Area Networks.
August 9, 2005... Inmarsat is set to look back at 2005 as a momentous year. In June, the global satellite carrier completed a successful initial public offering (IPO) and, later this year, it is set to launch its Broadband Global Area Network (BGAN) service,...

CompTIA Readies Convergence Certification.
August 9, 2005... The Computing Technology Industry Association (CompTIA) has recruited a half dozen companies, including Intel and Avaya, to help with the development of what is to be a foundation-level, convergence-certification program. CompTIA's trying to...

New Zealand ISPs Press Demands.
August 9, 2005... A group of 22 New Zealand ISPs have banded together, under the name Internet Service Providers Association of New Zealand (ISPANZ), in order to press demands ranging from local-loop unbundling to lower pricing and faster wholesale broadband...

People To Watch.
August 9, 2005... * Manuel Vexler has joined CopperCom as the company's CTO. Vexler had been the vice president of marketing at VoIP industry trade group the International Packet Communications Consortium (IPCC), which recently changed its name from the...

Deal Sheet.
August 9, 2005... Who's Doing What?: Netcentrex [privately held], headquartered in Paris, France, with offices in Santa Clara, Calif.; 011 33 (0)1 58 71 33 33 or 408/450 5930 Is buying NeoTIP [privately held], headquartered in Lannion, France; 011 33 (0)2...

CompTel/ASCENT Fall 2005 Convention & Expo.
August 9, 2005... October 9-12, 2005 - Orlando, FL * Keynote: James Crowe, CEO, Level 3 Communications * CEO Forum: "Open Markets, Open Networks, Open for Business" * Seminars: Next-Gen Networks, VoIP Technologies, Broadband Wireless, *...

High-Speed Home BPL Spec OK'd.
August 23, 2005... The HomePlug Powerline Alliance board has given its final approval to HomePlug AV, its new specification for broadband communications over in-building power lines at speeds as fast as a blazing 200 Mb/s. The new spec, which has been under...

BBN Seeks Cure For Broadband Interruptus.
August 23, 2005... BBN Technologies - the company that really did co-invent the Internet back in 1969 - now is going to try to figure out a way for computers to talk to each other, even when they're not connected. As anyone who has ever received an "Error 404"...

Google Giggles As Researchers Diss Yahoo! Claim.
August 23, 2005... Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSC) - the place where the World Wide Web as we know it was born, sparking the broadband revolution - apparently have...

Company To Watch: Passave Races To Market With 2.5 Gb/s GPON Chips.
August 23, 2005... Hoping to cash in on its dominant market position in Japan for the silicon that's powering that country's fiber-to-the-premises (FTTx) rollout, Passave this week is taking the wraps off of its next trick - the world's first 2.5 Gb/s silicon...

People To Watch.
August 23, 2005... * Ron Harden has joined VoIP house VoX Communications as executive vice president of sales and marketing. He joins VoX, a subsidiary of eLEC Communications Corp., from Volo Communications, where he filled a similar position. His departure...

Deal Sheet.
August 23, 2005... Who's Doing What?: Stratos Global Corp [SGB], headquartered in Bethesda, Md.; 301/214-8800 Is buying rival satellite house Xantic BV [privately held], headquartered in Burum, The Netherlands, 011 31 70 343 45 43; and in Perth, Australia,...

The NGN 2005 Conference: Preparing You For The Changes Ahead.
August 23, 2005... Washington, D.C. September 26-30, 2005 The transition to wireless everywhere, the integration of voice and video onto IP networks and the consolidation among carriers and equipment vendors combine to make 2005 the most significant...