Broadband Business Forecast articles from July 2005

Broadband Business Forecast archives from July 2005

Trade Group Nominated As BPL Database Repository.
July 12, 2005... Broadband-over-powerline (BPL) trade group The United Power Line Council (UPLC) has urged the FCC to accept a proposal by the United Telecom Council (UTC) to be the government-designated repository of a database of BPL installations. ...

FCC Details U.S. Broadband Growth: Will ADSL Catch Cable?
July 12, 2005... Driven by massive growth in higher speed ADSL lines, the U.S. broadband market grew by 34 percent during 2004. So says the latest semi-annual Federal Communications Commission report on the subject. The way the FCC counts broadband (it...

Iraq Confidential: GI - Phone Home.
July 12, 2005... Back in the days of World War II, it was pretty much unheard of for a U.S. soldier to phone home. The Korean War wasn't much different, and Vietnam was only marginally better - at outrageous per-minute rates. Even in Gulf War One it wasn't...

Managed Services Hit The Home.
July 12, 2005... What is believed to be the first broadband managed-services offering aimed at home users has been released to market by a little start-up in Mt. Laurel, N.J., named ELI, which has gone to market with a fully managed broadband security...

Executive Q&A: Solving The 'VoIP Management' Dilemma.
July 12, 2005... Ten-year-old NetIQ believes that there's an emerging "VoIP management" dilemma that many large companies are going to slam into as they roll out VoIP services in hopes of slashing their communications costs. Needless to say, NetIQ also...

People To Watch.
July 12, 2005... * Cisco Systems has named Charles Giancarlo as its chief development officer, the company's top technical post and a position that puts him in control of the company's R&D efforts. Giancarlo, who had been Cisco's CTO, succeeds the retiring...

Deal Sheet.
July 12, 2005... Who's Doing What?: NeoPhotonics [privately held], headquartered in San Jose, Calif.; 408/232-9200 Has managed to buy formerly Chinese state-owned Photon Technology Co. [privately held], headquartered in Shenzhen, China; 011 86-755-...

CCMI's Revenue Assurance 2005.
July 12, 2005... July 18-19, 2005 ~ Miami Beach, FL Make plans now to attend this conference developed specifically for communications service providers. With four tracks covering IP and wireless services, best practices and auditing for revenue assurance,...

Would-Be 'Skype-Killer' Goes To Public Beta.
July 26, 2005... Gizmo, the latest and at least, according to its inventors greatest free VoIP client has gone into public beta testing, with the avowed goal of putting the market-smashing Skype out of business. Both, of course, have the identical avowed...

FTTx In The Bayous: The Final Battle Looms.
July 26, 2005... The citizens of Lafayette, La., by an overwhelming margin of 62 percent to 38 percent, a week ago voted to go ahead with the city's planned $125 million municipal fiber-to-the-home project, capping an acrimonious 18-month battle in which...

Company To Watch: Zultys Targets Cisco With WiFi VoIP 'SuperPhone'.
July 26, 2005... Four-year-old voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) systems house Zultys Technologies this week is taking the wraps off its first WiFi phone, promising a sort of "SuperPhone" it says will be the first of its ilk to support all of the standard...

The Big Broadband Bill Of Rights.
July 26, 2005... FirstMile.us, a new public interest group set up in May to promote the proliferation of true high-speed broadband in the 100 Mb/s class, has issued its first manifesto - a document it calls the Big Broadband Bill of Rights. The group now...

ATIS, MSF Team On NGN Standards.
July 26, 2005... The Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions (ATIS) and the MultiService Forum (MSF) signed a memorandum of understanding to establish a collaborative relationship aimed at speeding up the development of secure, robust,...

People To Watch.
July 26, 2005... * Chris Busch is the new vice president/Broadband Technology at Incognito Software. Busch had been senior technology advisor to the CTO of Cable MSO Global Solutions at Nortel Networks. * Friedrich Joussen has been named the new CEO of...

Deal Sheet.
July 26, 2005... Who's Doing What?: Broadcom [BRCM], headquartered in Irvine, Calif.; 949/450- 8700 Is buying SiliquentTechnologies [privately held], headquartered in Mountain View, Calif.; 650/962-1632 (R&D headquarters in Ramat Gan, Israel; 011972 (3)...