Broadband Business Forecast articles from February 2006

Broadband Business Forecast archives from February 2006

Ethernet QoS Standard Hardens Up.
February 7, 2006... The Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) has launched another phase of its "Carrier Ethernet" certification program - this time defining the parameters for equipment to be certified as meeting "Hard QoS" (quality of service) standards, essentially...

AOL Study Reveals Web Worries.
February 7, 2006... The biggest fear people have about the Internet is that it is being used by terrorists, according to a study by Time Warner subsidiary AOL's U.K. operation. The study asked users to rate a series of both positive and negative issues. "How...

EarthLink Zeroes In On The Triple Play.
February 7, 2006... This isn't your mother's EarthLink, that's for sure. After all, who would have believed that the ISP, which started out life back in 1994 with a paltry 10 dial-up modems, is in the process of re-inventing itself as a phone company and it's...

Progress Report: Meriton Networks.
February 7, 2006... Last fall, when two young up-and-coming agile optical networking startups - Meriton Networks and Mahi Networks - decided to merge (Broadband Business Forecast, Oct 4, 2005), the obvious question was whether the marriage of the two smallish...

Nortel-Huawei In Ultra-Broadband Joint Venture.
February 7, 2006... Nortel and Huawei Technologies have agreed to form what the two are calling an "ultra-broadband" joint venture to bring next-generation broadband products to market. The deal is going to meld Huawei's broadband access solutions and...

People To Watch.
February 7, 2006... * Staccato Communications has named Chairman Marty Colombatto as chairman and CEO following the resignation of Rick Kornfeld. Colombatto has served on Staccato's Board since May 2004. Prior to joining Staccato, Colombatto was vice president...

Deal Sheet 02/08/06.
February 7, 2006... Who's Doing What?: Broadcom [BRCM], headquartered in Irvine, Calif.; 949/450- 8700 Is buying Ethernet chip house Sandburst [privately held], headquartered in Andover, Mass.; 978/689-1600 What To Expect Near-Term: Broadcom is paying $80...

Gigabit FTTx Comes To America.
February 21, 2006... As the lyrics to the classic Rodgers and Hammerstein song go, "everything's up to date in Kansas City" - and as if to prove those words true, Kansas City is about to become the first place in America to install fiber all the way to the user...

NetIQ Readies Corporate VoIP Security Kit.
February 21, 2006... NetIQ next week will release a VoIP security kit believed to be the first to hit the market that melds network management, VoIP service management and VoIP security management. The NetIQ release is notable not only because it's first to...

Optical Networking Sales Hit $11B.
February 21, 2006... Buoyed by a strong fourth quarter, the optical networking market just managed to hit the $11 billion mark in 2005, according to new estimates from research house Ovum-RHK. In the final quarter of the year, Ovum-RHK estimated industry...

Telekom Austria Bets $1.8B On Broadband, IPTV.
February 21, 2006... Helmut Leopold, head of technology and platform management at Telekom Austria, in an exclusive interview with Broadband Business Forecast's sister publication Inside Digital TV, says his company is betting on video delivered over broadband -...

People To Watch.
February 21, 2006... * Fiber optic access solutions house Novera Optics has hired Bernd Hesse as vice president of marketing and business development. Hesse had been director of marketing for Centillium Communications. * Cambridge Broadband Limited has named...

Deal Sheet 02/21/06.
February 21, 2006... Who's Doing What?: Nortel [NT], headquartered in Brampton, Ontario, Canada; 905/863-0000 Is selling its blade server switch unit to a new venture-capital- backed company called Blade Network Technologies [privately held], to be...