Broadband Business Forecast articles from February 2005

Broadband Business Forecast archives from February 2005

The Accenture Study: A Look Inside The Head Of The American Broadband User.
February 8, 2005... The broadband market quickly is becoming commoditized and, despite all attempts to push value-added services and such fancy portal services as Microsoft's MSN, Yahoo! and America Online (AOL), end users' choices are based almost entirely on...

VoIP Security Alliance Launches Pre-Emptive Strike On Hackers.
February 8, 2005... A coalition of companies cutting a broad swath of the industry, ranging from voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) hardware vendors to security houses, universities and even the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have banded...

Deployments.
February 8, 2005... With the holiday season - when companies typically are reluctant to talk about significant wins, fearing the news will be ignored - now behind us, the flow of broadband contract wins has turned into a deluge. From China to rural Georgia,...

BBF Readers Give VoIP The Thumbs-Up.
February 8, 2005... Some 44 percent of companies polled by Broadband Business Forecast said they are already using VoIP or they have plans in place to use the technology. Another 24 percent said they're at least thinking about using VoIP. The survey, a "Your...

New To Market.
February 8, 2005... TraceSpan Unveils Non-Intrusive ADSL2+ Analyzer TraceSpan Communications has gone to market with an ADSL2+ multi-layer analyzer it touts as the industry's only non-intrusive performance analysis solution for ADSL2+, ADSL2 and ADSL products....

People To Watch.
February 8, 2005... * In a succession of power, Corning President and COO Wendell Weeks will move into the role of president and CEO on April 28, replacing James Houghton in the CEO slot. Houghton will remain chairman, and Peter Volankis, now president of Corning...

Deal Sheet.
February 8, 2005... Who's Doing What?: KMC Telecom [privately held], headquartered in Bedminster, N.J.; 408/526-4000, 908/470-2100 Is selling of all of its CLEC operations to CenturyTel [CTL], headquartered in Monroe, La.; 318/388.9000 And TelCove, [privately...

CompTel/Ascent Crowd Tries To Dope Out UNE-P Transition.
February 22, 2005... With the end of mandated UNE-P almost upon us, vendors selling into the competitive telecommunications industry smell blood - new business - and those vendors were out in force last week at the CompTel/Ascent show in New Orleans, seemingly all...

Company To Watch: IP TV Compression Startup Takes On Microsoft, Tandberg.
February 22, 2005... With just $15 million in venture capital in hand so far - including a $7 million mezzanine round in December 2004 when it unveiled its first product - two-year-old Modulus Video is about to take on the mighty Microsoft [MSFT] and the venerable...

Psst - Wanna Buy Some Bandwidth? I Can Get It For You Wholesale.
February 22, 2005... The past two weeks have seen a flood of new bandwidth offerings - particularly wholesale offerings - along with upgrades of existing offerings as companies struggle to remain competitive and the unveiling of the plans behind several business...

Deployments.
February 22, 2005... Dudley Do-Right Gets Wireless The Royal Canadian Mounted Police have deployed a wireless network from Broadbeam to notify officers of crimes in progress and of emergencies as well as allowing the agency to receive messages from Mounties...

People To Watch.
February 22, 2005... * Todd Vecchio was promoted to president at facilities-neutral solutions provider Global Internetworking. Vecchio, who co-founded the company, had been serving as executive vice president of sales. He takes over the president's job from fellow...

VoIP Briefs.
February 22, 2005... XO Launches VoIP Termination Services XO Communications [XOCM] launched a voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) termination service for services providers that offer VoIP to both the business and consumer markets. The services lets VoIP...

Deal Sheet.
February 22, 2005... Who's Doing What?: TUT Systems [TUTS], headquartered in Lake Oswego, Ore.; 971/217-0400 Is buying what's left of Copper Mountain Networks [CMTN], headquartered in Palo Alto, Calif.; 650/687-3300 What To Expect Near-Term: TUT is buying Copper...