Broadband Business Forecast articles from December 2004

Broadband Business Forecast archives from December 2004

Vonage CEO Citron Surveys The Emerging VoIP Scene.
December 14, 2004... The most disruptive broadband-based technology to grab the headlines this past year has been, arguably, the onslaught of voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP). Basic VoIP technology actually has been with us for almost two decades but, until this...

Passave Opens Its Raincoat: What's Really Inside The Chip.
December 14, 2004... Broadband semiconductor house Passave has taken the lid off what's been hiding inside the dynamic bandwidth allocation (DBA) engine in its chips for Ethernet passive optical networks (EPONs) - and it turns out the company has been quietly...

The Wireless Broadband Battle: Is UMTS TDD Upstaging WiMax?
December 14, 2004... While the noise over the eventual advent of WiMax continues to garner major attention -- in no small part because of the drum-beating of Intel [INTC] and other powerful players lined up behind the technology -- the rival UMTS Time Division...

Triple Play In Utah: The iProvo FTTx Network Goes Live.
December 14, 2004... The first homes in the closely watched iProvo FTTx project have gone live, barely 120 days after work on the system began. HomeNet Communications, initially the only provider franchised to deliver services over the Provo municipally owned...

Comcast Nails Down A $100M Nationwide Fiber Backbone.
December 14, 2004... Cable giant Comcast [CMCSA] signed a 20-year deal for the use of 19,000 route miles of fiber from Level 3 Communications [LVLT] with a capacity of 3 Terabits per second. Initial capital cost of the network, including fiber capacity, and routing...

Broadband Deployments.
December 14, 2004... The Ups & Downs Of Broadband Balywho, a specialist in Internet-enabled elevators, is going to use gear from powerline broadband specialist Telkonet [TKO] to deliver the signals to its in-elevator display systems. The first elevators in the...

New To Market.
December 14, 2004... SMC Networks Unveils $900 'All-In-One' Hot Spot SMC Networks has gone to market with an "all-in-one" kit for the nearly instant creation of hot spots. The $900 kit, called the EliteConnect, combines a 802.11g wireless accesspoint/bridge; a...

People to Watch - Dec. 14, 2004.
December 14, 2004... Sabella Takes The Helm At VoIP House Veraz Networks Douglas Sabella has been named president and CEO of VoIP house Veraz Networks. Sabella is a seasoned industry veteran who served as COO at Terayon Communications, as president of...

Deal Sheet.
December 14, 2004... Who's Doing What?: Cisco Systems [CSCO], headquartered in San Jose, Calif.; 408/526-4000 Has completed its acquisition of BCN Systems [privately held], headquartered in Santa Calara, Calif.; 408/530-8260 What To Expect Near-Term: Cisco is...

By The Numbers.
December 14, 2004... DSL Use Hits 85 Million Worldwide The total number of DSL users in the world surged by 39 percent, to 85.3 million, in the first three quarters of 2004, according to new research done for the DSL Forum by analyst house Point Topic. About 24...