Broadband Business Forecast articles from February 2008

Broadband Business Forecast archives from February 2008

And Now, A Word From Our Editor: Bush's 'Broadband Victory'.
February 5, 2008... By Stuart Zipper, senior editor, Broadband Business Forecast In a show of what many - including me - see as a desperate attempt to justify a failed national broadband policy (or, rather, no policy at all), the U.S. Department of...

Ethernet Over Microwave: The Perfect Broadband Storm?
February 5, 2008... It's no secret 3G cellular telephony finally is sweeping the globe, with 4G allegedly not far behind, creating a massive amount of wireless broadband traffic that today's cellular infrastructure is ill-equipped to handle. Equally, it's...

Flash Update: CommuniGate Readies UC On 'AIR'.
February 5, 2008... CommuniGate, a company that was touting unified communications (UC) before most of us even knew there was such a thing as UC, has spiffed up its flagship "Pronto!" UC client with the ability to make and receive Web-based VoIP calls. At first...

Investors Get A 'Brilliant' Idea.
February 5, 2008... Venture capitalists have plowed another $6.1 million into Brilliant Telecommunications, a three-year-old startup specializing in network timing, management and synchronization solutions. The Round B of financing, led by ONSET Ventures with...

People To Watch 02/05/08.
February 5, 2008... * The Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) has hired Nicolas Fetchko as director/international and government affairs, and it recruited Taly Walsh as vice president/marketing and business development. Fetchko had been a foreign...

Broadband's Final Frontier: Ethernet Goes Into Space.
February 19, 2008... When the Space Shuttle Atlantis undocked from the International Space Station (ISS) among myriad things it left behind as part of the European Space Agency's $2 billion, 40-ton Columbus laboratory was the first commercial off- the-shelf...

Packet Performance Specialist Snags More Funding.
February 19, 2008... Investors have plowed $7.45 million into Canadian packet-performance- assurance specialist Accedian Networks. The cash, in what was Accedian's second round of venture financing, came from RHO Canada Ventures in addition to follow-on...

Tekelec Fortifies SIP Arsenal.(Company overview)
February 19, 2008... Tekelec has purchased what are described as "substantially all of the assets" of Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) software startup Estacado Systems on undisclosed terms. Estacado, based in Dallas, was founded in June 2004 by a cadre of...

EC Agrees To U.K. Broadband Deregulation.
February 19, 2008... The European Commission (EC) has agreed to allow U.K. regulator Ofcom to deregulate wholesale broadband serving almost 65 percent of all of Britain's businesses and homes, saying that enough competition exists to scrap the European Union...

NEC Takes The 100 Gb/s Environmental Challenge.
February 19, 2008... With 40 Gb/s broadband backbones just starting to rear their heads and 100 Gb/s not far behind, the industry is facing a new problem not evident at lower speeds: As the temperature changes, so does the shape of the cross-section of an...

People To Watch 02/19/08.
February 19, 2008... * IPTV contender Narrowstep - which calls itself the "TV-on-the-Internet company" - has named Barak Bar-Cohen as president and COO. Bar-Cohen had been general manager of European operations for the company. He takes over a role vacated...

Pirelli Details Plans For Nano-Based Optical Broadband Subsidiary.(Company overview)
February 19, 2008... Italian industrial giant Pirelli is setting up a nanophotonics optical broadband subsidiary, merging the photonics business unit of Pirelli Broadband Solutions and the Optical Innovation division of Pirelli Labs. The new unit, expected...