Broadband Business Forecast articles from January 2005

Broadband Business Forecast archives from January 2005

Global Standards: WiMax At The Crossroads.
January 11, 2005... Sometime this week, members of the WiMAX Forum will be meeting behind closed doors with the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) - during the Wireless Communications Association show in San Jose - with the goal of hammering...

Pannaway Bets Double Down On Triple Play.
January 11, 2005... Most startups try first to make their marks in a single technology, but two-year-old Pannaway is betting double down - in less than a year, it's come to market with both ADSL2+ and active fiber to the user (FTTx). In the process, it has quietly...

Alliance Opts For Interoperable Powerline Broadband Specs.
January 11, 2005... The HomePlug Powerline Alliance has decided to opt for a specification that will meld broadband distributed over power lines inside a building with broadband delivered over the power lines (BPL) to that building. The new BPL specification now...

ITU Releases Super-Speed Bonded DSL Standard.
January 11, 2005... The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) released specifications for bonded DSL lines that will let carriers deliver DSL over multiple lines, with the speed of the DSL limited only by the number of lines bonded together - in theory 100...

Deployments.
January 11, 2005... Malaysian Carrier Expands M'wave Broadband Backbone Malaysia's largest wireless broadband operator, Maxis Broadband, inked a three-year pact with NEC [NIPNY] and Itochu [ITOCF] to provide a PDH/SDH microwave system that will be the...

People To Watch.
January 11, 2005... Stealth Startup Snags Industry Vet As CEO Industry veteran Sam Mathan is the new CEO at Matisse Networks, a largely unknown company that's been operating in semi-stealth mode (it does have a Web site, so it's not entirely secret) on optical...

Deal Sheet.
January 11, 2005... Who's Doing What?: Tellabs [TLAB], headquartered Naperville, Ill.; 630/798-8800 In desperate need of optical network terminator (ONT) technology has purchased startup company Vinci Systems [privately held], headquartered in Vienna, Va.;...

Security Storm On The Horizon: VoIP Is Vulnerable.
January 25, 2005... While most of the industry is shouting about the wonders of voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) technology, and investors are showering money on VoIP start-ups like they did back in the Internet boom years, there's starting to be some...

Broadcom Claims VoIP Victory Over TI; Unleashes Gigabit VoIP Chip.
January 25, 2005... Broadcom [BRCM], claiming that it has quietly grabbed market-share leadership in voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) phone chips for the mass market away from Texas Instruments [TXN] and soon will have the Number One share in the enterprise...

David vs. Goliath: World Wide Packets Takes On BT.
January 25, 2005... U.K. broadband house Telewest Business has turned to World Wide Packets for its LightningEdge active FTTx hardware for a nationwide rollout of fiber to the business user to be marketed as "National Ethernet." With World Wide Packets already...

New To Market.
January 25, 2005... Orthogon Unveils 300 Mb/s Wireless Ethernet Bridge Orthogon Systems released a next-generation wireless Ethernet bridge it calls the OS-Spectra, said to provide a secure point-to-point broadband link at distances as far as 125 miles and...

People To Watch.
January 25, 2005... * David Woodall is the new president and CEO of voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) monitoring-and-management specialist Quovia. Woodall takes over from Quovia co-founder Richard Tworek, who Quovia says will continue to "work closely" with the...

Deal Sheet.
January 25, 2005... Who's Doing What?: Cisco [CSCO], headquartered San Jose, Calif., 408/526-4000 Is paying a small fortune for WLAN house Airespace [privately held], also headquartered in San Jose, Calif., 408/635-2000 What To Expect Near-Term: Cisco is...