Broadband Business Forecast articles from January 2008

Broadband Business Forecast archives from January 2008

Time To Rethink Muni Wi-Fi?
January 8, 2008... Municipalities around the United States that have been planning to deploy municipal Wi-Fi - and there are about 400 of them, according to a count by research house ABI - had best rethink and retool their plans if they want to be successful....

Carrier Ethernet Follows The Money Into Wireless Backhaul.
January 8, 2008... Based on the events of 2007, the noise level surrounding Ethernet - particularly Carrier Ethernet and Metro Ethernet - is sure to get ever louder in the coming year. Some think that the real money, when it comes to the United States, isn't...

DSL Forum Releases Key IPTV Spec.
January 8, 2008... The DSL Forum, which last fall put itself on a fast track to standardize IPTV, reasoning that IPTV "is at the top of the agenda for service providers and equipment vendors around the world," (Broadband Business Forecast, Sept. 18, 2007), has...

U.S., Europe Promised Ka Satellite Broadband Explosion.
January 8, 2008... ViaSat has taken the wraps off plans to launch a Ka-band satellite it claims will have more broadband capacity, at 100 Gb/s, than today's entire fleet of two-way Ka-, C- and Ku-band capacity over North America combined. Almost...

People To Watch 01/08/08.
January 8, 2008... * Broadband over powerline (BPL) house Telkonet Founder and CEO Ron Pickett has stepped down, with COO Jason Tienor taking over as president and CEO as the company works its way through a reorganization and a cost-reduction program. Pickett...

RCN Watch: Neither Fish Nor Fowl.
January 8, 2008... At the start of each year it's almost de rigueur either to look backward or forward or both, and just about every company in the industry wants to be the one chosen for the "free" publicity inherent in being tapped an example for the...

Is Telecom Italia's French Alice At The Stake?
January 8, 2008... Word out of Paris is that Telecom Italia has put its French broadband subsidiary Alice on the block, and that it's looking for as much as $1 billion for the unit, said to be its only money-losing broadband subsidiary. French daily Le...

Aptilo Gobbles America's Airpath.
January 22, 2008... Swedish wireless broadband house Aptilo Networks is buying Mass.-based Airpath Wireless in a move that instantly double's Aptilo's presence and revenues in the United States. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Aptilo lays claim to...

Centillium Exits xDSL; Ikanos Picks Up The Pieces.
January 22, 2008... Centillium Communications is getting out of the DSL business, selling off its money-losing DSL assets to Ikanos and concentrating on chips for fiber-to- the-premise (FTTP) passive optical networks (PON) and VoIP instead. Ikanos is paying...

A Look At Carrier Ethernet's Newest Layer Player.
January 22, 2008... Ciena, moving more deeply into Carrier Ethernet, this month unveiled Layer 2 switching for its flagship CN 4200 FlexSelect transport system, a feature that will become generally available in March. The way we see it at Broadband Business...

U.S. Re-Emerges As 'Intelligent Communities' Contender.
January 22, 2008... The Intelligent Community Forum (ICFR) has chosen its "Top Seven Intelligent Communities of the Year," setting the stage for the final battle for the top spot - and for the first time in years, a community in the United States has a chance...

People To Watch For 1/22/08.(Company overview)
January 22, 2008... * Home network fabless semiconductor house Entropic Communications President and COO Mark Foley has decided to leave the company "to pursue other interests," which were not disclosed. Foley had been with Entropic since its acquisition of RF...