Broadband Business Forecast articles from January 2006

Broadband Business Forecast archives from January 2006

C-Cor Burps After Five-Company Feast.(Company Profile)
January 10, 2006... It looks like C-Cor's got a little case of indigestion from trying to meld the five companies it picked up in a better-than-$100 million buying spree back in 2004 into a single company. After spending 2005 trying to make it all fit together,...

Corpus Christi Ramps Up Wireless Broadband Project.
January 10, 2006... The city of Corpus Christi, Texas, has awarded Northrop Grumman a $23 million contract to complete deployment of what was once touted as potentially the largest municipal wireless broadband network in the United States - a 147- sq.-mile...

Qwest Demands Users Accept New DSL Terms.
January 10, 2006... Claiming that it's just doing what the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) now allows, Qwest is demanding that its DSL customers accept a new set of terms of service that, among other things, could forbid small businesses from offering...

BroadLight Wins GPON SoC Race.
January 10, 2006... BroadLight has begun sampling what is believed to be the industry's first gigabit/s passive optical network (GPON) system-on-a-chip (SoC). With GPON heavily touted by its proponents as the next generation that will replace the BPON FTTx...

People To Watch.
January 10, 2006... * The revolving door in the Nortel executive suite just won't stop spinning. Chief Marketing Officer Clent Richardson said over the holiday break that he will be leaving the company March 1 after 18 months for "personal reasons." Richardson...

Deal Sheet 01/10/06.
January 10, 2006... Who's Doing What?: Sigma Designs [SIGM], headquartered in Milpitas, Calif.; 408/262-9003 Is buying UWB startup Blue7 Communications [privately held], also headquartered in Milpitas, Calif.: 408/383-0200 What To Expect Near-Term: Sigma is...

Ooh, Look: Carrier Ethernet In The Big Apple.
January 24, 2006... Optimum Lightpath, the business telecommunications services division of Cablevision Systems Corporation, finally has let Ethernet hardware house Atrica publicly disclose it is Atrica gear that is powering Optimum's snazzy new carrier-class...

BellSouth Inches Toward IPTV Launch.
January 24, 2006... BellSouth most likely will introduce its first full IPTV services a year from now, according to Don Granger, BellSouth's president of entertainment. "We will be expanding our current technical trial into a market trial in the middle of...

Company To Watch: Ikanos Wants It All.
January 24, 2006... VDSL chip house Ikanos Communications, in a move that instantly broadens its product reach to almost every nook and cranny of the high-end xDSL market, is spending $30 million to buy Analog Devices' network processor, ADSL chips, and related...

Cleveland Rocks: Winning Back Some Broadband Prestige For The U.S.
January 24, 2006... The United States has returned to the winner's circle in the annual competition for designation as the world's top "Intelligent Communities" - following an embarrassing year-long hiatus - with Cleveland, Ohio, making this year's list of the...

People To Watch.
January 24, 2006... * Peter Wharton is leaving the U.K.-based fixed wireless access vendor Cambridge Broadband Limited after six years as the company's founding CEO. Wharton, of his future plans, said only that he was moving on to "a new challenge," and...

Wildblue Slashes Installation Price Tag.
January 24, 2006... In a bid to boost satellite broadband sales and subscriptions, Wildblue Communications has slashed its professional installation costs and has significantly increased its distribution of equipment through satellite equipment dealers. ...

Deal Sheet 01/24/06.
January 24, 2006... Who's Doing What?: VeriSign [VRSN], headquartered in Mountain View, Calif.; 650/961-7500 Is buying CallVision [privately held], headquartered in Seattle, Wash.: 206/352-3055 What To Expect Near-Term: VeriSign is paying $30 million in...