Broadband Business Forecast articles from July 2006

Broadband Business Forecast archives from July 2006

New To Market: The Incredible Invisible Broadband Mesh.
July 11, 2006... Once upon a time, light emitting diodes (LEDs) were sexy little things, but that's a long time ago and they had almost nothing to do with broadband. A previously unknown startup called ClearMesh suddenly has changed that. The outfit has...

Amity Breaks Out Down Under As Groups Agree To Merge.
July 11, 2006... Australia's two dominant communications industry trade groups - the Australian Communications Industry Forum (ACIF) and the Service Providers Association (SPAN) - in an unusually amicable joint conclusion that the transition to next...

LA Metro Turns To Israel For FTTx-Based Anti-Terror System.
July 11, 2006... The Los Angeles Country Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) tapped Israeli metro Ethernet over fiber-to-the-user (FTTx) specialist FibroLAN for the backbone of a snazzy new anti-terrorist and security-monitoring system that's been...

New To Market: A Broadband Product Potpourri.
July 11, 2006... One of the two most common pitches high-tech business press editors hear is for new products of all sorts (the other most common is about sales of those products). On a good day, new products are released in the broadband industry at the...

Wanted: Suppliers For Wireless Broadband On Steroids.
July 11, 2006... NTT DoCoMo has issued a request for proposals from suppliers for the development of equipment for what is being called "Super 3G" base stations and handsets - wireless broadband on steroids, if you will, capable of 100 Mb/s downlink speeds....

How EMEA Set The 1Q Broadband Growth Pace.
July 11, 2006... The number of broadband lines in the world grew to 229 million by the end of the first quarter of this year, up 36 percent from a year earlier according to a new study by research house Point Topic, and Europe set the pace. Meanwhile,...

MobilePro's Buying Binge Snags Clearwave.
July 11, 2006... MobilePro, the wireless data and operating company that has been going around the country buying up literally dozens of small operating companies - many so small they've slipped under the radar - signed a letter of intent to buy Clearwave...

People To Watch.
July 11, 2006... * Former Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge has been named to the Iridium board of directors. With the survival of Iridium due in no small factor to government business, having the two-term Pennsylvania governor on board could prove...

Brix Test Tells All: VoIP Call Quality Is Falling.
July 25, 2006... The quality of Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) calls has been steadily deteriorating during the past 18 months, even as the number of VoIP users steadily increases, according to a continuing study conducted by Brix Networks. According to...

New To Market: Personalized Apps For The Quad-Play Set.
July 25, 2006... By now, just about everyone in the industry has seen nearly endless demos of such sexy applications as caller ID popping up on the TV (widescreen, of course) or perhaps a calendar automatically synchronized between a PC and a very, very...

Executive Chat: Let's Play 'VoIP Follow The Leader,' But Who's The Leader?
July 25, 2006... For the past month or so, the vast majority of attention on "pure-play" VoIP companies has been focused on Vonage - for the obvious reasons that Vonage clearly is the market volume leader with its claimed 1.6 million or so subscribers and...

People To Watch.
July 25, 2006... Wired and wireless broadband house ICOA Inc. disclosed that, on June 23, its board had requested the immediate resignation of CEO Richard Schiffmann, and Founder and Chairman George Strouthopoulos has taken over as president and CEO. The...

The Ikanos Triple-Play Chip Play: VDSL2 Tailored For IPTV.
July 25, 2006... Ikanos Communications, which lays claim to what's currently a 90-percent or so share of the unexpectedly exploding VDSL market, has come to market with what its touting as the world's first VDSL2 chipsets optimized for IPTV - and IPTV is, of...

Commentary: The Revival Of The Competitive Carrier.
July 25, 2006... By Stephen Ferranti, telecommunications analyst, Stephens Inc. With standards-based certified wireless broadband network equipment now available, carriers are able to deploy broadband access services to subscribers at speeds previously...