Broadband Business Forecast articles from February 2007

Broadband Business Forecast archives from February 2007

Carrier Ethernet: The New Kid, The Old Kid And PBT.
February 6, 2007... Carrier Ethernet is now one of the hottest markets in the broadband transport business, and so-called Provider Backbone Transport (PBT) tunneling technology is emerging with lightning speed as the newest buzz word percolating through the...

FCC: U.S. Broadband Population Is Barely 30 Million.
February 6, 2007... The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has released its regular semi-annual report on "broadband" connections in the United States - in typical fashion, providing a snapshot of what deployment looked like seven months ago, on June 30,...

Belden Buys Industrial Ethernet Specialist.
February 6, 2007... Belden is paying $260 million in cash plus assuming about $60 million in pension liabilities and other debt for industrial Ethernet house Hirschmann Automation and Control GmbH (HAC). The acquisition of the German company, which Belden is...

Harris-Stratex Merger Creates Wireless Transmission Powerhouse.
February 6, 2007... The Harris Corporation's Microwave Communications Division (MCD) and Stratex Networks Inc. have merged, creating what's being touted as the world's largest independent provider of wireless transmission network solutions, with customers in...

Wireless Broadband House Tranzeo Meshes With Sensoria.
February 6, 2007... Canadian wireless broadband house Tranzeo Wireless Technologies Inc. says it's bought all of the assets of Sensoria Corporation relating to Sensoria's wireless-mesh-networks technology for broadband applications, paying a combination of...

ILECs Blamed As European Broadband Growth Stalls.
February 6, 2007... The European Competitive Telecommunications Association (ECTA) is blaming the growth of telecommunication monopolies in what it believes are "key countries" for a reportedly significant slowdown in broadband uptake across Europe. According...

People To Watch 2/6/07.
February 6, 2007... >>Free space optics house LightPointe Communications has named Brian R. Petersil as director/customer service and strategic account sales. Petersil, who comes to LightPointe from millimeter-wave company Loea Corporation, replaces Brett...

Telecom Xtra Wins New Zealand 'Supreme Ass' Award.
February 6, 2007... Telecom New Zealand (TNZ) has been awarded that nation's "Supreme Ass" award for the level of service - or lack thereof - of its supposedly high-speed "Xtra" broadband offering. The "Supreme" award is the top recognition in the inaugural...

Business Ethernet Leaders See Share Shrinkage.
February 22, 2007... Virtually all of the largest business Ethernet providers saw their market shares erode in the last half of 2006, according to a new analysis of the market by the Vertical Systems Group (VSG). The research house is blaming the situation on...

Ericsson Buys GPON Partner Entrisphere.
February 22, 2007... Ericsson has gobbled up its small Gigabit Passive Optical Network (GPON) partner Entrisphere for undisclosed terms in yet another acquisition giving it a key piece of the total solution it plans to compete with in the coming era of IPTV and...

Infinera Makes A Little Acquisition.
February 22, 2007... Infinera Inc. has bought planar lightwave specialist Little Optics Inc. from ICX Nomadics, picking up a proprietary glass-based substrate technology it plans to integrate with its groundbreaking 100 Mb/s photonic integrated circuits (PICs)....

Is TPACK The Power Behind The Carrier Ethernet Throne?
February 22, 2007... It's usually not easy to grab a leading market share - indeed, a majority market share - in a hot technology without getting noticed. Yet a little 35- person outfit in Copenhagen, Denmark, called TPack claims it's done just that in the...

Meet The Newest Wi-Fi Mesh Mavens.
February 22, 2007... There's a new kid on the hot Wi-Fi mesh block, as we reported a few weeks ago when Canadian wireless broadband house Tranzeo Wireless Technologies Inc. bought the assets of Sensoria Corporation's wireless mesh networks technology (Broadband...

Need Speed? Want 200Mb/s At Home? Move To Hong Kong.
February 22, 2007... Citing what it calls the "need for speed," City Telecom (HK) Ltd subsidiary Hong Kong Broadband Network Ltd. (HKBN) has gone to market with a symmetrical 200 Mb/s residential broadband offering, believed to be the fastest in the world...

People To Watch 2/20/07.
February 22, 2007... >>BT Group Plc Chairman Christopher Bland will step down from that post on Sept. 25, with KPMG International Chairman Michael Rake named his successor at the U.K.'s incumbent phone company. Bland, who is 68 and who had been chairman of the...